Dedicated chains for your application
Build application-specific blockchains with custom gas tokens, governance, and throughput tuned for your product.
Any ERC-20 or native
Cosmos, OP, Orbit, CDK
Contractually backed
Engineers on-call
Appchains live on a spectrum. The further right you go, the more you control. And the more you're responsible for. Most teams start left, migrate right as TVL and validator set mature.
L2
Inherits Ethereum security via fraud or ZK proofs. Lowest trust assumption, highest base-layer cost.
Frameworks
OP Stack, Orbit, CDK, ZK Stack
Security ▲ · Cost ▼
L2'
ZK rollup with data availability outside Ethereum. ZK security, lower cost, but a DA committee assumption.
Frameworks
Polygon CDK validium, ZK Stack validium
Cost ▲ · Trust ▼
L2”
Optimistic rollup posting data off-chain. Cheap, fast, with a fraud-proof escape hatch.
Frameworks
AnyTrust (Arbitrum Orbit)
Cost ▲ · UX ▲
S
Settles to Ethereum or a sovereign DA layer. Your chain enforces its own state. Not inherited from a base layer.
Frameworks
Cosmos SDK rollups, Sovereign SDK
Sovereignty ▲ · Bootstrap ▼
L1
Your own consensus, your own validator set, your own fork-choice. Highest sovereignty, full operational responsibility.
Frameworks
Cosmos SDK, Substrate
Sovereignty ▲ · Cost ▲
Each framework is engineered for a different combination of sovereignty, finality, and interop. We build and operate on all six. Recommendation is honest because we don't have a horse in the race.
Go
Modular framework powering the IBC economy. Tendermint BFT under the hood, with first-class IBC support for trust-minimised interop between chains.
Picked when
DEXes, RWA chains, application-specific networks needing IBC.
Solidity + Go
Optimistic rollup framework. Lowest friction to bootstrap, full EVM equivalence, opt-in Superchain for shared bridges and governance.
Picked when
Consumer dApps, gaming, social, anything wanting Ethereum security with minimal lift.
Solidity + Rust
Permissioned L3s settling to Arbitrum One. AnyTrust mode swaps Ethereum DA for a Data Availability Committee. Order-of-magnitude cost reduction.
Picked when
Gaming, enterprise chains, anything needing custom gas + low ops cost.
Solidity
ZK rollup framework with AggLayer interop. ZK proofs give hours-finality and atomic cross-chain bridging with other AggLayer chains.
Picked when
DeFi protocols valuing fast finality and unified AggLayer liquidity.
Rust
Modular framework powering Polkadot. Standalone L1 or parachain on Polkadot's shared security. BABE + GRANDPA consensus, Wasm runtime.
Picked when
Custom protocol logic, forkless upgrades, parachain-style shared security.
Solidity + Rust
Matter Labs' framework with native account abstraction and Hyperchain interop. EraVM execution with Boojum proving.
Picked when
Consumer apps where AA UX (paymasters, session keys) is core.
Picking deliberately at each axis is what separates an appchain from a generic deployment. We model the cost and operational impact of every option before contract.
Consensus
Tendermint BFT
Instant finality, ~5s blocks
HotStuff
Linear, pipelined
PoS (Casper-style)
Slot-based, slashing
Optimistic / ZK
Inherits L1 finality
Gas economics
Custom ERC-20 gas
Stable-coin gas, sponsor mode
Native fee token
Validator reward, MEV capture
Gasless / paymaster
App-sponsored UX
Multi-asset gas
User picks the token
Validator set
Permissioned (you)
KYC'd validators only
Permissioned (shared)
Curated operator set
Permissionless PoS
Open delegation
DPoS / nominated
Cosmos / Polkadot style
Governance
On-chain governance
Token-weighted votes
Multi-sig council
Foundation-controlled
Hard-fork coordination
Off-chain social consensus
Hybrid
Council + on-chain ratification
Throughput
~100 TPS
Treasury-scale settlement
~1,000 TPS
Consumer dApp scale
~10,000 TPS
Gaming, social
Sharded / parallelised
Move-style or rollup-of-rollups
Interop
IBC (Cosmos)
Native channel-based
Canonical bridge
OP/Orbit/CDK
LayerZero / Wormhole
Generalised messaging
Atomic swaps
Trust-minimised peers
Custom consensus, governance, and fee structure configured for your app. Not a one-size-fits-all template.
Thousands of TPS with sub-second finality. Cross-chain messaging and horizontal scaling built in.
Your own upgrade paths, voting mechanisms, and token economics. Full sovereignty over your chain.
DDoS protection, anomaly detection, and intrusion monitoring included on every appchain.
Bridges and liquidity integrations for connecting your appchain to Ethereum and major L2s.
Dedicated resources on hyperscaler infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure). Isolated, scalable, and geo-distributed.
Consensus, gas token, validator set, governance model, throughput target.
Cosmos SDK, OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon CDK, or custom. We help you choose.
Validator nodes, full nodes, RPC Endpoints, block explorer, bridge, and indexer. All managed.
Testnet, then mainnet on your timeline. Continuous monitoring and upgrade management included.
DeFi
Capture MEV, set fee tokens, and isolate from base-layer congestion.
Gaming
Sub-second blocks, sponsored gas, and predictable fees for billions of in-game transactions.
Enterprise
KYC-gated validators, compliance reporting, and private data availability.
Identity
Cheap writes for follows, attestations, and reputation graphs at social-network scale.
Real-world assets
Regulated chains for tokenized treasuries, real estate, and trade finance with built-in compliance hooks.
Modular
Settle to Ethereum or Celestia, prove with ZK or fraud proofs, fully sovereign data and state.
An application-specific blockchain is a chain built and operated for a single application or ecosystem. Unlike deploying on a shared L1 or L2, an appchain gives you full control over throughput, fee economics, consensus parameters, and governance.
deployment
Bring us your application; we model the framework, consensus, gas, and interop choices, cost them, and operate the result. Recommendation in writing, before contract.