Services
Most chains and protocols know they need a stronger dev team and a more active developer community — they just don't have the partner who can run it as a function. We do. We source the engineers, run the contributor program, ship the open-source artifacts that anchor the brand, and where it makes sense we co-build a product on top of your stack and share in the upside.
Eleven years inside the stacks everyone else reads about. Twenty-plus public repos. A live ship log at /reports, an active contributor ladder, and a track record of turning open-source presence into closed revenue.
Six service lines that compose. Most partner engagements bundle three or four; the rest stand alone.
Dev community as a function. Contributor recruitment via our ladder, sustained PR cadence into your repos, issue triage and review automation, hackathon and bounty design, plus the public ship-report loop that compounds reviewer trust. See the ship log.
We source senior and mid engineers from our network and the open contributor pool, vet them through real merged PRs against your stack, and stand up an embedded team you can keep. Placement, retainer, or hire-to-handover — your call.
Where a kcolbchain repo plugs cleanly into your chain or protocol, we integrate it, ship a product on top, and share the revenue. Worked example: a switchboard ↔ partner-chain integration funded by a token-liquidity allocation, generating ongoing fee revenue for both sides.
Senior IC capacity dropped into the hard parts: validators, relayers, indexers, bridges, ZK infra, rollup integrations, performance tooling. Your leads keep ownership; we carry depth.
Protocol and smart-contract audits, threat modeling, secure SDLC enablement, and incident response readiness — backed by our open audit-checklist tooling.
Joint research with publishable artefacts and grant-ready proposals. We co-apply for ecosystem grants where it benefits both sides; co-publish where it benefits the field.
Flexible structures from focused reviews to long-term partnerships.
Smart contract security review, architecture review, threat model, technical due diligence, or a workshop / training session. Scoped, time-boxed, with clear deliverables.
Protocol design consulting, comprehensive audit with remediation support, custom tooling development, or a research partnership with defined milestones and artefacts.
Ongoing security advisory, embedded protocol engineer, research partnership on long-term roadmap, or continuous developer community management and activation.
We apply for ecosystem grants (Ethereum Foundation, L2 foundations, protocol grants) to fund open research that benefits your ecosystem. Co-funded models available.
Security reviews, protocol engineering, research partnerships, and developer ecosystem programs for Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Scroll, zkSync, StarkNet, and others.
Mechanism design review, smart contract audits, integration engineering, and MEV analysis for lending, DEX, derivatives, and stablecoin protocols.
Cross-chain security analysis, oracle integration, bridge security, and protocol-level research for middleware and infrastructure projects.
Technical advisory for blockchain adoption, tokenisation strategy, architecture reviews, and developer training for organisations entering web3.
