Protocol engineering
Runtime development, custom pallets, runtime upgrades and node infrastructure, including EVM compatibility on Substrate-based chains.
Engineering studio · Ghent, Belgium
We build the connections systems depend on.
Nexus Labs designs and builds blockchain protocols, distributed backends and the data layers that tie them together. Senior engineering, from the node up.
Move through the network
Services
Where systems meet, correctness matters most.
A nexus is a point of connection. Our work lives at those points: between chains, between nodes, between raw state and the people who need to trust it.
Cross-chain bridges
Bridges where every state transition is explicit: proof generation and verification, attestor services, checkpointing and archival state.
Onchain data
Indexers and APIs that turn chain state into data wallets, dashboards and internal teams can rely on, with finality and edge cases handled.
Product engineering
Backends, web and mobile products built and operated end to end, from API design to deployment and the first customers.
Approach
Ambiguity in, a plan the team can ship out.
Most hard problems arrive as a vague requirement. We turn them into a design, a sequence and a set of tasks, and build the hardest parts ourselves.
Correctness before cleverness
We make assumptions, invariants and failure modes explicit before writing code, so the system behaves when it matters.
Ship early, then deepen
Large problems are split into steps that deliver something useful early, instead of one big release at the end.
Senior and hands-on
You work directly with the engineer who designs and builds your system. No hand-offs, no layers in between.
Selected work
Built for production.
Long-running engagements on live networks, and products we build and operate ourselves.
Protocol engagement
Layer-1 blockchain for global credit
Technical lead for a team of six engineers on a Substrate-based Layer-1: runtime and node engineering, EVM compatibility, a cross-chain bridge with proof verification, and the indexing layer behind wallets and dashboards.
- Rust
- Substrate
- Frontier
- Solidity
- TypeScript
Own product
Simplybooked
A booking platform for local businesses, built and operated end to end: backend, API, web and mobile clients, deployment and customer onboarding.
- Node.js
- React
- React Native
8+ yearsbuilding production systems
80+protocol releases shipped
Rust · Goand TypeScript where it fits
Contact
Let’s connect.
dylan@nexuslabs.beBased in Merelbeke, near Ghent. Working with teams across Europe, the Americas and Asia.