{"id":213833,"date":"2025-05-12T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/from-blockchain-to-brainwaves-coinbase-co-founder-fred-ehrsam-enters-the-neurotech-race-with-non-invasive-bci-startup-nudge"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:19:52","slug":"from-blockchain-to-brainwaves-coinbase-co-founder-fred-ehrsam-enters-the-neurotech-race-with-non-invasive-bci-startup-nudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/from-blockchain-to-brainwaves-coinbase-co-founder-fred-ehrsam-enters-the-neurotech-race-with-non-invasive-bci-startup-nudge","title":{"rendered":"From Blockchain to Brainwaves: Coinbase Co-Founder Fred Ehrsam Enters the Neurotech Race with Non-Invasive BCI Startup Nudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-blockchain-to-brainwaves-coinbase-co-founder-fred-ehrsam-enters-the-neurotech-race-with-non-invasive-bci-startup-nudge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fred Ehrsam, billionaire co-founder of Coinbase, is shifting his next big bet from cryptocurrency to the human brain, unveiling a non-invasive brain-computer interface designed to modulate brain activity with sound waves.<\/p>\n<p>Ehrsam\u2019s entry as the latest competitor to join the race to develop accessible brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) follows similar recent efforts from tech leaders like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>On April 8, Ehrsam\u2019s startup, Nudge, unveiled its first product, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nudge.com\/blog\/about\/\">Nudge Zero.<\/a> A noninvasive brain interface device that uses ultrasound to modulate brain activity, the technology represents the first start-up venture to pursue this unique approach with BCI technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Ehrsam, billionaire co-founder of Coinbase, is shifting his next big bet from cryptocurrency to the human brain, unveiling a non-invasive brain-computer interface designed to modulate brain activity with sound waves. Ehrsam\u2019s entry as the latest competitor to join the race to develop accessible brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) follows similar recent efforts from tech leaders like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3818,1523,1761,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchains","category-computing","category-cryptocurrencies","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}