hack·a·chain — Specialist software for crypto finance
We didn't read about trading systems, payment rails, and DeFi protocols. We built them.
Money movement between TradFi and onchain is still broken in most places. We've spent 15+ years on that exact problem — building the rails, the execution systems, and the protocols. We know where the bodies are buried.
Why it's hard — and why it matters
Most teams get either the finance depth or the crypto-native engineering. Rarely both. That gap is exactly where things break.
The typical fintech problem
Finance expertise without crypto depth
Understands payment rails, FX, compliance, and market structure. But hits a wall when the destination is onchain — smart contracts, liquidity protocols, and settlement finality work differently.
The typical crypto-native problem
Onchain fluency without finance structure
Knows the protocol layer cold — but underestimates FX risk, execution quality, and the operational reality of moving real money through real markets at scale.
hack·a·chain operates at that exact intersection. Our team has been on the trading desk, built the exchange infrastructure, shipped DeFi protocols, and delivered fintech systems end to end. We don't translate between the two worlds — we live in both.
Credentials
Experience that comes from doing it,
not advising on it.
Trusted by
Where we come from
What we've shipped
| System | Description | Domain |
|---|---|---|
FX execution engine | Multi-venue routing with real-time pricing, hedging, and settlement across fiat and crypto pairs | Money rails |
On/off ramp infrastructure | End-to-end ramp systems with liquidity management, KYC hooks, and banking integrations | Ramps |
Market making system | Algorithmic quoting, inventory management, and risk controls for exchange and OTC environments | Trading |
Onchain settlement protocol | Smart contract layer for tokenised asset settlement with TradFi-compatible clearing logic | Onchain |
RWA tokenisation platform | Infrastructure for issuing and managing real-world assets onchain with custody and compliance integration | RWA |
ZK privacy protocol | ZK enabled compliance and access control layer for onchain assets to privacy protocols to provide privacy for users and compliance for regulators. | Privacy |
AMM LP bot | Trend aware, hedged AMM LP bot that can be deployed on any AMM protocol to provide liquidity and earn fees staying delta neutral on market direction. | Trading |
Services
Four areas. One team that has
shipped in all of them.
We don't generalise. Each pillar maps to systems we've designed, built, and put into production.
Infrastructure optimisation — across all domains
We also go into systems that are already
running and make them better.
Most clients aren't starting from zero. We come in mid-flight — auditing execution pipelines, reducing infra spend, and fixing the reliability issues that only appear at volume.
Re-architected core infrastructure to eliminate latency bottlenecks and over-provisioned compute — delivering significant performance gains and cost reduction simultaneously.
Audited and restructured the infrastructure footprint of a high-throughput DeFi protocol — cutting cost by 92% while maintaining reliability and uptime under live network conditions.
What we optimise
Profiling and re-architecting execution hot paths — order routing, pricing engines, settlement confirmation — to shave the milliseconds that matter in live markets.
Hardening systems against failure modes that only appear under load — circuit breakers, graceful degradation, failover routing, and alerting that fires before your client does.
Auditing cloud spend, data pipeline costs, and over-provisioned compute across high-throughput financial systems — and restructuring to handle the same load for less.
Re-engineering bottlenecks in transaction processing, settlement queues, and data ingestion — so systems that work at 10x can still work at 100x without a rewrite.
Domains
Where we go deep.
Four niches we know from the inside — the problems, the edge cases, and what production-grade actually means in each one.
FX and cross-border money movement is still one of the hardest problems in finance.
Corridors behave differently. Liquidity is fragmented across banks, non-bank providers, and crypto venues. Hedging crypto exposure against fiat risk is a discipline most teams underestimate until it costs them. We've built the execution layer — and we've been on the desk managing the risk.
What most teams miss
FX isn't just a pricing problem. It's a liquidity sourcing, timing, hedging, and settlement problem simultaneously. Systems that handle the happy path break under stress — high volatility, thin liquidity, or failed settlement. We design for the edge cases first.
What we build
Who we work with
Built for teams operating at the sharp end.
We work best with teams who know what they're building and need a partner with the domain depth to match.
| Who | The problem they bring | What we deliver | |
|---|---|---|---|
Fintechs & neobanks | Need to move money faster, cheaper, and across more corridors — without rebuilding core infrastructure from scratch. | FX execution, ramp infrastructure, and payment rail integrations that sit cleanly on top of existing systems. | Talk to us → |
Crypto-native teams | Strong on the protocol side — but hitting the limits of what in-house engineering can deliver on execution, market design, or financial infrastructure. | Specialist engineering that plugs in at the right layer — from onchain protocol design to execution and liquidity architecture. | Talk to us → |
TradFi crossover | Understands financial markets but needs a technical partner who speaks both sides — finance structure and onchain execution — without translating between them. | Architecture and builds that bridge TradFi logic and crypto infrastructure — settlement, compliance, and market access included. | Talk to us → |
OTC desks & exchanges | Need production-grade execution and market-making infrastructure — not off-the-shelf tools, not a two-person dev shop. | Custom quoting engines, inventory systems, and execution infrastructure built by people who've run the desk themselves. | Talk to us → |
Enterprise & corporates | Exploring crypto rails for treasury, payments, or asset management — but need an engineering partner who can translate strategy into something that actually runs. | Scoped builds that start from the business problem — not the technology — and deliver working infrastructure, not a deck. | Talk to us → |
How we work
Simple engagements.
No ambiguity about what happens next.
We keep the process tight so both sides can move fast.
Let's talk
If you're building in this space, we should speak.
A 45-minute call costs nothing. We'll tell you directly whether we can help, what it would look like, and what it would take.