About ForgeLab

Operators who build. Engineers who ship.

We are a San Francisco-based development studio specializing in blockchain, AI, and Web3. Our team brings deep financial services experience and hands-on protocol engineering — whether you need a smart contract, an ML pipeline, or both, every product we ship is technically sound and commercially viable.

San Francisco, CA
Primary headquarters
EU · MENA · US
Markets served
11 core members
Finance · Engineering · Design
Founded 2023
Stellar SCF · Draper University

Team composition

3

Financial & Structuring Consultants

Cross-border compliance, asset structuring, regulatory strategy, and institutional client relations across EU, MENA, and US markets.

7

Blockchain, Mobile & Full-Stack Engineers

Smart contracts, native mobile apps (React Native, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin), protocol security, tokenization infrastructure, and cross-chain integrations in Rust, Solidity, and TypeScript.

1

UX/UI Product Designer

Focused on seamless investor onboarding and platform experience — making complex DeFi and RWA products intuitive for institutional and retail users.

What we've delivered

Results that speak for themselves

Numbers from real projects shipped for fintech clients, protocols, and financial institutions.

$4.2MAssets tokenized on mainnet
50+Production deployments
12Asset classes supported
8 wksAvg. brief to MVP
24/7Trading availability delivered
100%On-chain compliance rate
6Chains deployed across
ZeroSecurity incidents

Our expertise

Chain-agnostic by design.
Stellar-native by expertise.

We build on the network your product needs. Our team brings deep experience across Stellar (Soroban/Rust), EVM (Solidity), Solana (Anchor/Rust), and more — with the ability to advise on chain selection before a single line of code is written.

Smart contract development across Soroban, EVM, and SVM
Native mobile apps — React Native, Flutter, Swift, and Kotlin
Comprehensive smart contract auditing and formal verification
On-chain data analytics and custom indexer development
AI agents with real-time blockchain awareness via MCP servers
Cross-chain bridge architecture and settlement layers
On-chain compliance engines for regulated assets
Production-grade infrastructure for financial institutions

Networks we build on

Stellar
Ethereum
Solana
Avalanche
Arbitrum
Base
Aptos
Mantle

Core stack

RustSolidityMoveTypeScriptPythonReact NativeFlutterSwiftKotlinSoroban SDKHardhatAnchor

What drives us

Our principles

Four commitments that shape every project, every hire, and every line of code we ship.

Operators first

We've built and shipped our own financial products on mainnet. Every engineering decision is informed by what it means to run a real protocol under real conditions — not just to build one.

Compliance by design

Regulatory requirements aren't an afterthought. We architect MiCA, KYC/AML, and transfer restrictions into the protocol layer from day one — not bolted on at the end of the project.

Speed without shortcuts

8 weeks from brief to production MVP is our benchmark. That speed comes from senior engineers who've solved these problems before — not from cutting corners on security or architecture.

Institution-ready output

Every deliverable is built to meet the standards of regulated financial institutions — fully documented, auditable, secure, and architected to scale from a pilot to a production system.

Want to work with us?

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