A small company, built for long horizons.
BlockZenith was founded in 2020 by a group of class‑2017 blockchain builders and AI/ML scientists. Between us we have contributed to Bitcoin Core, the Ethereum client ecosystem, and early Polkadot parachains. We have shipped production DeFi, run market‑making desks, and published at NeurIPS, ICML and ACL.
We built BlockZenith to keep doing that work in one place, with the people we trust most. Our goal is boring: ship frontier systems that behave in production, and give clients their weekends back.
Automate the complexity your teams hate, so they can do work that matters.
Every engagement starts with a frank conversation about where your team spends its day. We are not interested in replacing people. We are interested in retiring toil: the weekly reconciliation, the 3 AM incident call, the spreadsheet that must not break.
When we succeed, your team gets smaller responsibilities and larger agency. You hire for taste, we build the surface underneath.
- ScopeWeek‑zero sprint. Fixed price. Written memo.
- Team3–6 people, senior by default, no resource pools.
- CadenceWeekly demo + diff + decision log. No status theater.
- OwnershipYou own the code and the artifacts from day one.
- ExitRunbook + on‑call rotation handoff or retainer.
Six principles, one temperament.
Taste over trend
We resist fashion for its own sake. If a tool adds complexity, it needs to pay rent in clarity, safety or speed.
Own the whole stack
From chain to chat, our people read the full code path. No hand‑offs to a black box. No magic.
Ship, then talk
We prefer a commit over a conference deck. Our public proof lives on GitHub, on‑chain, and in post‑mortems.
Automate the boring
If a human is doing the same thing twice, we automate it and give the time back. That is the whole thesis.
Long horizons
Crypto cycles and AI hype cycles both favor the impatient. We plan in years and review in weeks.
Calm under fire
Markets break, models drift, incidents happen. We answer with checklists, logs and quiet execution.
We are boring, on purpose.
Our security program is a detail‑oriented, paranoid response to shipping things that hold money.
Things we get asked.
Who do you typically work with?+
Funds, exchanges, foundations, neobanks, and early‑stage teams that need deep protocol or AI work to ship on a tight horizon.
Do you take equity / tokens as comp?+
Sometimes. We prefer relationships where incentives align past launch day. We are selective.
Do you open‑source what you build?+
The parts that help the market move forward, yes. The parts that are client IP, no.
Are you remote?+
We are remote‑first with hubs in Berlin, Lisbon, and Singapore. We fly people together often.
How do engagements start?+
A scoping conversation, a short written memo, and a fixed‑price week‑zero sprint. If it fits, we continue.
Do you do audits?+
We partner with audit firms; we prefer to do the work first and be audited, not the other way around.
Anything missing? We like specific questions.
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