Since 2010
Building Software
Protocols Built to Survive Mainnet.
DeFi Development Services
We build DeFi protocols with the respect they demand: economic modelling before code, security review on every contract, and operations monitoring after launch. Fixed pricing, senior engineers, full source ownership.
- 120+
- AI Engineers
- 15+
- Years Building Software
- 9,000+
- Projects Delivered
- 25+
- Countries Served
Trusted by the brands we build for
9,000+
Projects Delivered
3,900+
Apps Published
500+
Engineers
insight
Why deFi demands a higher engineering bar
DeFi contracts hold real money in adversarial conditions, and the history of the space is a lesson in what happens when teams treat that casually. Our bar is correspondingly high: economic modelling before code, formal patterns for access control and upgrades, security review before mainnet, and monitoring tuned to detect exploits in progress, not the morning after.
We build the protocol and the product around it: interfaces, analytics, and treasury tooling. The security foundations come from our blockchain development practice, applied with extra rigour here.
What our deFi development services cover
Protocol classes we build, each with the full engineering stack.
AMMs and DEX protocols
Automated market makers and swap infrastructure with liquidity design, fee models, and MEV-aware routing.
- ✓Pool mechanics
- ✓Fee and incentive models
- ✓MEV-aware design
- ✓Router integrations
Lending and borrowing
Collateralised lending protocols with risk parameter design, liquidation mechanics, and oracle integration.
- ✓Collateral frameworks
- ✓Liquidation engines
- ✓Oracle integration
- ✓Risk parameter tooling
Staking and yield platforms
Staking, restaking, and yield distribution systems with reward accounting your auditors can verify.
- ✓Reward accounting
- ✓Emission schedules
- ✓Withdrawal flows
- ✓Verification tooling
Tokenomics and distribution
Token design, emission curves, and distribution mechanics modelled before deployment, not rationalised after.
- ✓Supply and emission design
- ✓Vesting contracts
- ✓Governance frameworks
- ✓Scenario modelling
Protocol security review
Economic and technical review covering exploit patterns, oracle risk, and upgrade paths before any mainnet deployment.
- ✓Exploit-pattern review
- ✓Oracle risk analysis
- ✓Upgrade safety checks
- ✓Remediation verification
Protocol interfaces and analytics
Front ends, portfolio views, and analytics dashboards that make protocols usable and transparent.
- ✓Transaction UX
- ✓Portfolio tracking
- ✓Treasury dashboards
- ✓Real-time position data
What every engagement includes
Every DeFi project ships with the following, agreed in writing before the first sprint begins.
Discovery workshop
A structured workshop maps your goals, users, and constraints into a scoped DeFi roadmap with a fixed written quote before any sprint starts.
Named senior team
You get named, senior engineers with CVs you can review, not a rotating bench. The people in the kickoff are the people who ship.
Sprint demos every two weeks
Working builds are demoed live each cycle with CI running on every merge, so progress is visible in software, not slideware.
100% source-code ownership
All DeFi source, configurations, designs, and documentation transfer to you on delivery with no licensing strings or vendor lock-in.
60 days of post-launch support
Engineering time is on standby for two months after go-live to triage defects, tune performance, and stabilise the release at no extra cost.
12 months of free updates
Compatibility updates, security patches, and platform upgrades ship free for a full year after handover.
What you can build in deFi
Protocol and product work our team delivers, modelled and audited throughout.
Decentralised exchange
An AMM or orderbook DEX with liquidity incentives, MEV-aware routing, and a fast, honest interface.
Lending market
A collateralised lending protocol with risk parameters modelled on your target assets and documented liquidation mechanics.
Staking and rewards platform
Staking with verifiable reward accounting, emission control, and clean withdrawal flows.
Yield aggregator
A vault system routing deposits across strategies with transparent fee accounting and risk disclosure.
Governance system
On-chain governance with proposal, voting, and timelock mechanics designed to resist capture.
How a DeFi Project Runs
Six stages, each with a sign-off gate before the next begins.
- 01
Discovery
We map your protocol goals, users, and constraints in a structured workshop, ending in a fixed written quote and an architecture risk list.
✓ step 01 complete - 02
Solution design
The DeFi architecture, integrations, and delivery plan are designed and reviewed before build work starts, so scaling later is not a rewrite.
✓ step 02 complete - 03
Foundation sprint
Repositories, CI, environments, and a walking skeleton are set up first. Something real runs on a staging URL before feature sprints begin.
✓ step 03 complete - 04
Sprint delivery
Two-week sprints with live demos every cycle. DeFi work is reviewed, tested, and merged continuously, so scope surprises surface early.
✓ step 04 complete - 05
Hardening and launch
Performance, security, and accessibility checks run against agreed budgets, followed by a staged protocol launch with monitoring from hour one.
✓ step 05 complete - 06
Support and handover
60 days of included support, 12 months of free updates, and documentation that lets your internal team own the system with confidence.
✓ step 06 complete
The stack behind our deFi builds
Default choices, stated with reasons.
Contracts
Solidity on audited foundations with formal patterns for access control, upgradability, and pausing, written to be reviewed before deployed.
Oracles and pricing
Multi-source price feeds with staleness and deviation checks, because oracle failure is a protocol-level event, not a bug ticket.
Simulation and testing
Fork-based testing and economic simulation against real historical data, so design flaws surface before value is at risk.
Operations
Real-time monitoring, incident runbooks, and guardian multisigs with time-locked actions, planned before launch rather than improvised after.
How intelligence flows through the protocol
What each layer reads, and what it changes.
Risk monitor
Watches positions, oracles, and liquidity for exploit patterns.
Reads
On-chain state, oracle feeds
Changes
Alert queues and guardian actions
Yield analytics
Models strategy performance and fee flows for operators.
Reads
Vault data, historical yields
Changes
Strategy reports and dashboards
User intelligence
Summarises positions and risks for users in plain language.
Reads
User positions, market data
Changes
Personalised insights and warnings
What's included, standard
The baseline on every DeFi engagement. Not an upsell tier, just the floor.
Fixed written quote
The price agreed at discovery is the price you pay, with change handled through explicit scope changes rather than silent drift.
Solution architecture document
System design, data flows, and technology decisions written down so your team can audit and own the result.
Dedicated project manager
One accountable point of contact with real authority over the delivery, not a message relay between time zones.
QA on every build
Automated and manual testing on each DeFi release candidate, with defects triaged before anything reaches production.
Security review
A checklist-based security pass covering authentication, data handling, and dependency vulnerabilities before launch.
CI/CD and environments
Pipelines, staging, and preview environments configured from week one, so releases are routine rather than dramatic.
Analytics and monitoring
Instrumentation wired before launch so you can see real user behaviour and system health from day one.
Documentation and handover
Code comments, runbooks, and architecture notes written for your next developer rather than for our convenience.
Economic modelling workshop
A modelling session on tokenomics and attack scenarios before contracts are written, documented for your records.
Case studies that speak volume
Etihad Airways
A high-traffic consumer platform our team ships and operates at national-carrier scale, the same bar every build is held to.
1M+
Monthly Users
40%
Engagement Lift
PragPlay
A consumer platform from the same engineering system, proving the infrastructure core holds under real-time load with strict uptime demands.
500K+
Players
99.9%
Uptime
Marvel Studios
A high-volume consumer experience our team ships at global-release scale, the same discipline applied to every launch.
10M+
Streams
65%
Completion
/11
Why teams pick us for deFi work
The differences live in engineering habits, not pitch decks.
Economics before code
Tokenomics and attack scenarios are modelled and documented before the first contract, because retro-fitted economics is how protocols die.
Security review Non-negotiable
Every protocol ships with security review covering exploit patterns, oracle risk, and upgrade paths, with remediation verified on mainnet.
Simulation against reality
We test against forked mainnet state and historical data, so liquidation and incentive behaviour is observed, not assumed.
Launch is the beginning
Monitoring, guardian procedures, and incident runbooks ship with the protocol, because the hours after launch are when they matter.
Track record since 2010
9,000+ projects and 3,900+ apps across 25+ countries, held to the same delivery discipline as everything else.
DeFi development FAQs
$ moxace launch --nowReady to Launch a Protocol That Survives?
Talk to our DeFi team about a security-first build with economic modelling and full source-code ownership.
- 01
Share your idea
a quick call, no deck required
- 02
See the live demo
every screen, admin to user
- 03
Launch with source
full code, your brand, your servers
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