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Engineering the systems behind on-chain finance

Protofire is an engineering firm that has designed, built, and operated on-chain infrastructure since 2016, for Web3 protocols, DeFi platforms, and institutions bringing real assets on-chain.

Protocols & networks

Core infrastructure, developer tooling, and long-term maintenance.

DeFi platforms

Smart contracts, oracles, and the backend behind live products.

Institutions & RWA

Real assets and regulated products, brought on-chain.

250+
Projects delivered since 2016
$2B+
In assets secured across 120+ networks
1M+
Developers rely on our open-source dev tools
Trusted by 60+ networks and 95+ protocols

Our story

From a small Ethereum team in 2016 to infrastructure for protocols, DeFi platforms, and institutions.

2016

Born as a blockchain spin-off of Altoros, building for early Ethereum projects.

2017

Long-term partnerships begin with Gnosis, Chainlink, Filecoin, and The Graph.

2019

RPC, indexing, Safe multisig, and oracles, delivered through a DAO contribution model.

2022

Major builds for Balancer, API3, and Simplestate.

2023

Grants from the Ethereum Foundation, Optimism, and Aave; open-source dev tooling and Balancer's ve8020 launchpad.

2024

New customers including Aethir and Truflation, and new lending and DeFi product lines.

2026

Doubling down on RWA, TradFi, and institutional on-chain infrastructure.

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2016

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2017

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2019

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2026

Long-term partners

The ecosystems we have helped build, and the work behind each.

The Graph logoThe Graph
In the ecosystem since 2019 · 3+ engineers

Built 30+ subgraphs and counting, and run one of the largest indexer nodes in the network.

Filecoin logoFilecoin
Node infrastructure since 2020 · 2+ engineers

12 million daily mainnet requests, 99.58% average yearly API uptime, and 229,258 total unique IPs.

Gnosis ecosystem logoGnosis ecosystem
Contributor since 2018 · 6+ engineers

Contributed to Safe (the multisig for managing digital assets collectively), Gnosis Auction, CowSwap DEX and the Explorer apps, the Conditional Token framework, and Omen, a decentralized prediction market.

Chainlink logoChainlink
Core contributor since 2021 · 4+ engineers

Integration acceptance testing across 7+ networks and 20+ External Adapters that developers use to feed data into their smart contracts, plus tooling to spin up a local Chainlink node with Foundry.

Swarm Markets logoSwarm Markets
Partner since 2020

Compliant multi-asset infrastructure for a regulated environment: KYC, a multi-tier permissioning system, and an on-chain AMM offering Swap, Pool, and OTC trading with self-custody and on-chain transparency.

Large Auditing Company
Since 2019 · 10+ engineers

Delivered 15+ proof-of-reserve and real-time attestation deployments for asset-backed tokens, and spun up and maintain 25 nodes across 11 networks.

Our team

We are a team of senior engineers who design, build, and operate on-chain systems for protocols, DeFi platforms, and institutions.

Renat Khasanshyn, Co-Founder of Protofire

Renat Khasanshyn

Chief Executive Officer

Andrei Yurkevich, Co-Founder of Protofire

Andrei Yurkevich

Founding Member

Cristian Malfesi, Offer Owner at Protofire

Cristian Malfesi

Offer Owner

Alejandro Losa

Alejandro Losa

Offer Owner

Ivan Bandaryk, SubDAO Owner at Protofire

Ivan Bandaryk

SubDAO Owner

Arsenii Petrovich, SubDAO Owner at Protofire

Arsenii Petrovich

SubDAO Owner

Contact

Let's talk about your project

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