Layer 1 protocol expertise
Core Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin (and others) — for direct integration into modern finance: custody, payments, settlement, and on-chain primitives.
Independent blockchain research collective
Advancing blockchain through open science.
We investigate frontier protocol design, security, privacy, and scalability — then publish artefacts and ship open-source. We also partner with organisations to deliver paid consulting, development, and applied research projects.
Est. 2015
11 years in blockchain
Open
research & open-source
Partner
protocols, L2s & teams
Research areas
Four questions driving our work.
Layer 2 scaling & rollups
Scaling Ethereum with optimistic rollups (and beyond): throughput, latency, bridging risk, fault proofs, sequencers, and production performance optimisation.
Privacy & zero-knowledge systems
Where do ZK proofs meaningfully improve user safety and protocol integrity, and what are the engineering constraints that decide what ships?
Security engineering
Smart contract and protocol security: audits, threat models, incident response readiness, and hardening the full stack (bridges, rollups, and integrations).
Open-source artefacts
Each repository is both a research contribution and a usable tool.
Security tooling
ZK & privacy
Business
Paid consulting, development, and applied research projects — informed by open-source and rigorous research.
Security reviews
Protocol and smart-contract audits, threat modeling, and secure SDLC enablement for teams shipping critical code.
Protocol engineering
Design and build core components: validators, relayers, indexers, bridges, ZK infrastructure, and performance tooling.
Frontier research
Joint research projects with partners: publishable artefacts, grant-ready proposals, and reproducible experiments.
Workshops & training
Hands-on sessions for teams: secure smart contracts, ZK engineering fundamentals, and protocol architecture deep-dives.
Community
A large network of builders, researchers, and reviewers — growing talent and accelerating shipping.
Gyaan network
Discussion groups, events, and sharing of real-world learnings across the blockchain ecosystem.
Open reviews
Peer feedback on designs, specs, and prototypes — raising quality through transparent iteration.
Contributor pipeline
From “good first issue” to maintainers: mentoring, tasks, and research sprints with real artefacts.
Partner ecosystem
We collaborate with protocols, L2s, tooling teams, and ecosystem funds on shared problems.
Our approach
Research that ships. Credibility that compounds.
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Hypotheses as software
We treat codebases as falsifiable claims: runnable prototypes, benchmarks, and repeatable experiments.
02
Open by default
We publish artefacts, notes, and learnings — building thought leadership, attracting collaborators, and enabling grants.
03
Systems-level rigor
Performance, adversarial modeling, and engineering constraints are first-class — because protocols fail in the real world.
04
Partnership-driven impact
We work with teams shipping to production: design reviews, implementation support, and long-horizon research programs.
Blog
Concepts, project write-ups, and our problem-solving approach — with illustrations.
Apr 1, 2026
AI x Blockchain
AI x Blockchain: our 2026 research agenda
Verifiable inference, on-chain agents, decentralised compute, and the problems worth solving.
Apr 1, 2026
Community
Building a blockchain dev community through open-source
The flywheel: open-source → contributors → expertise → contracts → revenue → more open-source.
Join the research. Shape what’s next.
We welcome academic collaborators, research partners, and funders who believe frontier blockchain problems deserve open, rigorous, reproducible investigation.