Knowledge Hub

Knowledge from the build floor.

What we've learned shipping 30+ systems to mainnet — written by the engineers who built them.

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How to Architect a Production dApp

Contracts, indexers and app layers: how we structure dApps so they survive mainnet traffic.

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Smart Contract Development: What Happens Before Deployment

Threat modeling, access control, fuzz testing: the work before a contract touches mainnet.

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Choosing the Right Blockchain for Your Product

Fees, finality, tooling and users: a practical framework for choosing where to deploy.

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Building Secure Wallet Experiences

Connection, signing, pending and failure: four UX moments that decide whether users stay.

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DeFi Architecture Explained

Pools, vaults, oracles and risk controls, explained through systems we shipped.

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When Blockchain Actually Makes Sense

Ownership, coordination, settlement: where blockchain genuinely earns its place.

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Multi-chain Development Without the Complexity

Abstractions for RPCs, addresses and gas that keep multi-chain support simple.

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Designing On-chain Data Infrastructure

Events, reorgs, backfills: designing data pipelines that stay correct at scale.

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Inside Blocksmith Works: Six Years of Shipping

Five years of shipping to mainnet: how our studio process evolved.

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