Just like Google helps users navigate the internet, and Yellow Pages’ directories help people find businesses, Elementus CEO Max Galka thinks his startup can be the universal search engine for blockchains.

“Google, in some sense, is like the Yellow Pages for the web, right?” Galka told me Thursday morning at his startup’s offices near Manhattan’s Flatiron Building. “The phone system is a big open network. But you really sort of need this global index in order to be able to use it.”