Technically reviewed by Olena Zaichenko, D.Sc.
FinTech and AI Scientist and Advisor
Professor, Department of Mathematical Methods of System Analysis, Institute for Applied System Analysis, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Financial analyst at EPAM Systems from 2005 to 2019.
Reviewed for technical accuracy on August 19, 2026. Not an endorsement of any commercial claim on this page.
When a ledger is the wrong answer
A ledger earns its cost in three situations: parties who do not fully trust each other need to agree on one record, a record must be provably unaltered after the fact or settlement has to clear without an intermediary holding funds.
If one organization owns the data and no outside party needs to verify it independently, a database with an append-only audit log does the same job for less money and less operational risk. Discovery ends with that verdict in writing at week two. If the answer is no, you have spent two weeks instead of two quarters.
What we have built
Ludo, a Web3 reputation platform, indexes 15+ blockchains at over 10,000 events per second and returns scores in under 200ms at 99.9% uptime.
PumpTap, a multi-chain wallet supporting 20+ chains, handles 50,000+ daily transactions with zero security incidents.
GridTradeX settles on chain in two block confirmations. Its smart contracts passed three independent audits with zero critical findings.
Kimlic issues tamper-proof reusable identity credentials and lifted onboarding completion from 62 to 89 percent at 140,000 verification flows a month.
Nextcheck runs KYC and AML at 5,000+ verifications a day with 99.8% OCR accuracy across 40+ document types.
Nexora integrates six carrier systems, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Salesforce, DocuSign and Adyen. Migration moved 70,000 active policies and 1.2 million documents.
Chains, standards and tooling
We work across EVM and non-EVM chains. Solana uses Rust and the Anchor framework, TON backs Telegram mini-apps and Cosmos runs CosmWasm. Each runtime has its own gas model and its own attack surface, so the audit method changes with the chain rather than being reused across all of them.
Token standards: ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-721A, ERC-1155, ERC-4626 and ERC-4337 account abstraction, plus ERC-3643 and ERC-1400 where transfers must be permissioned.
Regulatory scope: MiCA, PSD2, AML and Travel Rule.
What runs on Azure
Microsoft retired Azure Blockchain Service in September 2021, so there is no first-party managed blockchain network to deploy. Two designs replace it, and choosing between them is part of discovery.
Where you need a permissioned tamper-evident record rather than a public network, Azure Confidential Ledger provides it, built on the Confidential Consortium Framework and running inside hardware-backed enclaves. Azure SQL Database ledger covers relational records that need the same integrity guarantee.
Where you need a full network with independent node operators, the ledger runs on Azure Kubernetes Service. Azure Key Vault and Managed HSM hold signing material. Azure Monitor supplies the operational baseline you will run against after handover.
How the eight weeks run
- Weeks 1 to 2. Discovery. Data flows, the parties involved, trust boundaries, regulatory constraints and the record that must be provable. Ends with the feasibility verdict.
- Weeks 3 to 4. Architecture. Azure service selection, ledger choice, key management, identity and integration points, with a cost model at your stated volume.
- Weeks 5 to 7. Build. The proof of concept deployed to your subscription and integrated with one upstream and one downstream system.
- Week 8. Validation and handover. Threat model, audit scope, production roadmap and a recorded handover session.
What you get
- Feasibility report, including the case against building.
- Target architecture on Azure with service list, network design and key-management model.
- Working proof of concept in your own subscription.
- Threat model and audit scope for the ledger and any smart contracts.
- Azure cost model for the proof of concept and for production at your volume.
- Production roadmap with sequencing, risks and a delivery estimate.
- Source code and a recorded handover session.
Who this is for
Funded startups past seed, operating businesses scaling a product that already works and enterprises moving an older stack onto current technology. Minimum engagement is $50,000.
