Crypto engineering shops differentiate on volume of services listed. We differentiate on the four practices we hire and retain for, and the depth we ship in each. If a problem doesn't fit one of these four, we say so on the intro call and route the project elsewhere. The list below is the list. There isn't a hidden second page.
— CAPABILITIES
What we bring when
we step in.
Four practices. Not a service menu — the engineering depth we own. Most engagements draw on two or three of these at once.
C01 / L1 · L2
L1/L2 development & infrastructure.
When the chain has to ship to mainnet with custom consensus, native protocol-level features, or institutional-grade indexing. Two L1s shipped — Incentiv's Contribution-Scored PoW from genesis, one under NDA. Indexer infrastructure for Canton Network. Mawari's L3 chain, Guardian node stack, and staking portal (mainnet live). Embedded chain engineering at Alien Network.
→ /capabilities/l1-l2C02 / CRYPTOGRAPHY · ZK
Applied cryptography & ZK.
When the protocol needs ZK circuits, light clients, or privacy primitives the in-house team can't ship alone. Wormhole Foundation contributor — NEAR↔Ethereum ZK light client; built the Solana implementation of MultiGov (multichain governance). Cryptography work for zkSync. Open-source contributions to Penumbra (initial Web Wallet + gRPC). Privacy and identity work with Privado, Panther, and Hinkal. Five peer-reviewed papers across MDPI Cryptography, IEEE Access, Elsevier, and Springer.
→ /capabilities/zk-cryptoC03 / DEAI
Decentralized AI.
When the network needs Proof-of-Compute consensus, inference verification, or DeAI agent infrastructure. Y.AI, built end to end. Contributor to Gonka's $50M Bitfury-backed compute network — Sprint mechanism, MMR off-chain artifact storage, vLLM-integrated PoC, bridge security.
→ /capabilities/deaiC04 / DEFI · STABLECOINS
DeFi & stablecoins.
When the protocol needs the whole mechanism — not just contracts, but the math, the cross-chain plumbing, and the issuance design. Stablecoin engineering for institutional issuers (M0). Multi-chain RWA-backed stablecoins (Evidentia — bond-backed eUAH/eTRY/eVND across 3 chains). Cross-chain yield (Sommelier). Lending portfolio across six chains.
→ /capabilities/defiEngagements typically draw on 2–3 of the four practices at once. Incentiv is L1 development plus cryptography for the scoring layer. M0 is DeFi mechanism plus cross-chain plumbing. Gonka is DeAI consensus plus applied cryptography for the verification primitive. The pillars are a vocabulary for the practice, not a partition.
— ENGAGEMENT
Talk to a founder.
Bring the problem — we'll tell you which of the four practices it draws on, and say so if it doesn't fit.
The first step is a 30-minute call with a founder. Shapes, discovery, and terms → /engagement