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Blockchain Infrastructure
NERA
Our flagship EVM-compatible blockchain engineered for rapid, secure, and scalable application deployment
Onyx StudiosPrivate technical studioEst. 2023
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The studio
Onyx Studios is a small, private technical studio. We design and ship blockchain, AI, and security systems for a select group of partners. Most engagements come through introduction. In the background, three studio projects we're building because we believe the problems deserve better answers.
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01 — What we build
The disciplines for teams who ship serious software.
One studio, three deep specialisations, engaged from architecture through production support.
NERA · Frontier testnet
Throughput
0TPS
01Blockchain infrastructure
Custom blockchain infrastructure, engineered for production.
Custom EVM-compatible L1s and L2s built around your throughput and governance requirements. Hot-swappable consensus, native cross-chain bridges, and the tooling teams actually use.
- EVM and Cosmos SDK compatible
- Custom consensus and gas economics
- Sub-second finality at 1,247 TPS
Oracle response
0.42s
Confidence
0.0%
Routed
$0.0M
ETH / USD2,431.04
risk_score0.18
rebalanceexecute
Ethereum
Optimism
Arbitrum
02AI integration
AI oracles and on-chain agents that earn their gas.
Cross-chain AI oracles that ship richer-than-prices data, plus autonomous on-chain agents that act on it. Built for DeFi, supply chain, and compliance workloads.
- On- and off-chain AI oracle pipelines
- Autonomous agent frameworks
- Multi-variable risk and pricing models
Audit report
Vault.sol
0
/ 250 passed
Reentrancy guards
Integer overflow
Access control
Front-running surface
Gas DoS vectors!
Oracle manipulation
03Smart contract security
Smart contract audits, formal verification, and zero-exploit defaults.
A 250-point smart contract audit framework refined across $68M+ in value secured during the team's prior DeFi work. We audit our own contract templates before yours ever ship.
- Manual review and formal verification
- Continuous monitoring after deploy
- 250-point internal test framework
02 — Studio projects
All studio projectsThe work we're building in the background.
03 — Studio dispatch
The work, measured honestly.
What's active right now, paired with what the team has shipped in prior work. No invented numbers.
0
Studio projects active
NERA, MyBridge, kodiiWeb
$0M+
Value secured · prior work
team’s prior DeFi engagements
Zero
Exploits in shipped code
internal and partner audits
0+
Points in our security framework
continuously updated
04 — On the studio model
How the studio actually works.
The studio runs on two parallel tracks at once.
The first is partner engagements. Quiet, by introduction, and usually before the press release. We take a small number each quarter, working with teams who need senior judgment rather than headcount, across four disciplines: blockchain infrastructure, Web3 application development, AI integration, and smart contract audits. Most of what we do for partners stays anonymous by their request. We can't name names. What we can name are the disciplines and the rigor.
The second is studio projects. The things we build because the question they answer deserves a better answer than what exists. NERA, My Bridge, and kodiiWeb each ship with a thesis attached: the question being tested, the design decisions that follow, and what would prove the thesis wrong. The studio projects don't subsidize the partner work. They sit alongside it as our own R&D.
Principles
We don't take every engagement. Most introductions come through someone who's worked with us. We'll happily say no if it's the wrong fit.
No invented numbers. The numbers we cite are attributable: $68M+ secured across the team's prior DeFi work, zero exploits in shipped code, 250+ points in our internal security framework.
By introduction, mostly. If the work resonates, the right next step is a conversation. We respond within 24 hours and tell you plainly whether we're the right fit.
05 — Let's build
Have a system worth building right?
We take a small number of engagements each quarter. Enterprises shipping blockchain infrastructure, teams integrating AI, founders who want it audited from day one.
Currently accepting Q3 engagements