Technology

The tools behind the work

Platform agnostic by principle, not by accident. Every project starts with the same question: what does this specific problem actually need? The answer determines the chain, the language, the infrastructure, and the security posture. Not the other way around.

What we work with

Smart contracts
Solidity Rust Move Vyper Cairo
Frameworks and tooling
Hardhat Foundry Anchor OpenZeppelin Wagmi Viem Ethers.js
Chains
Ethereum Solana Polygon Arbitrum Base Optimism Avalanche Stellar Cosmos Tron
Security and testing
Slither Mythril Echidna Certora Prover Foundry Fuzz Aderyn
Backend and APIs
TypeScript Go Python Node.js Rust PostgreSQL Redis GraphQL
Infrastructure
AWS Azure GCP On premise Docker Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD
Oracles and indexing
Chainlink The Graph Pyth UMA Goldsky Alchemy QuickNode
Wallets and custody
Fireblocks Fordefi Safe MPC HSM Privy
Monitoring and observability
Tenderly Forta Datadog Grafana PagerDuty OpenTelemetry

How we think about technology

Chain selection follows the workload

A payments application settling millions of micro transactions has different needs than a governance system managing a DAO treasury. We start with your throughput, cost, and finality requirements. Some projects deploy on Ethereum mainnet. Some on Solana. Some across multiple chains simultaneously.

Open source by default

If the team that deployed your contracts disappears, you need to read, understand, and operate the code yourself. Standard libraries, documented architecture, and external audits ensure every stakeholder can trace how a transaction moves from input to settlement.

Built for 3 AM, not just launch day

Production systems need monitoring, alerting, key rotation, incident response plans, and operational runbooks. The architecture accounts for RPC failures, gas spikes, bridge exploits, and the operations team that needs to pause withdrawals within minutes. Deployment is the beginning, not the end.

Tell us what you are building.

Every project starts with a conversation.

FAQs

How do you decide which blockchain is right for our use case?
Chain selection starts with your project's actual requirements: throughput needs, cost constraints, liquidity access, regulatory landscape, and developer tooling maturity. There is no default chain. The recommendation comes out of discovery, not ecosystem preference.
Are we locked into a specific chain once you start building?
No. Gatekick uses open-source tooling, standard libraries like OpenZeppelin, and well-documented architecture. For EVM chains, contracts can deploy across L2s with minimal modification. The architecture is designed to avoid vendor or platform lock-in.
What happens when something goes wrong in production at 3 AM?
Production systems include on-chain event listeners, RPC health checks, gas price alerts, wallet balance monitoring, and incident runbooks. Your team inherits dashboards they can read and alerts that fire on conditions that actually matter, not noise.
We already chose a chain for business reasons. Will you still work with us if it is not technically ideal?
Yes. The team runs a structured assessment and communicates tradeoffs early during discovery. The goal is to make tradeoffs intentionally and document them, even when chain selection is constrained by partnerships or business relationships.