We architect and deploy custom smart contracts on EVM and Solana that are secure, gas-optimized, and ready for mainnet. Every contract undergoes a rigorous security audit and is built with OpenZeppelin standards to mitigate risk.
Alternative VM ZK-Rollup Implementation
Smart Contract Development
Secure, audited smart contracts built for production from day one.
- Token Systems:
ERC-20,ERC-721,ERC-1155,SPLwith custom minting, vesting, and governance. - DeFi Protocols: Automated Market Makers (AMMs), lending/borrowing pools, and yield aggregators.
- Enterprise Logic: Multi-signature wallets, supply chain tracking, and verifiable credentials.
- Security First: Formal verification, comprehensive unit/integration testing, and post-deployment monitoring.
Deliver a production-ready, fully audited contract suite in 2-4 weeks, not months. We handle the complexity so you can focus on your product.
Core Implementation Capabilities
We deliver production-ready ZK-Rollup implementations with custom virtual machines, providing the scalability and flexibility your application requires. Our focus is on secure, performant, and maintainable infrastructure.
Security & Audit Readiness
Engineer with security-first principles, implementing formal verification where applicable and preparing all components for independent audits by firms like Trail of Bits or OpenZeppelin.
Business Outcomes: Why a Custom VM Rollup?
Generic rollups offer a starting point. A custom ZK-rollup built on an alternative VM delivers specific, measurable advantages that directly impact your product's performance, security, and market position.
Tailored Performance & Cost
We architect your VM's execution environment and state model to match your exact transaction patterns. This eliminates the overhead of a general-purpose EVM, resulting in lower gas costs for users and higher throughput for your application.
Proven Security & Isolation
Your application logic runs in a dedicated, sandboxed environment. This provides inherent protection from vulnerabilities in unrelated protocols and shields your users from network-wide congestion or exploits, a critical advantage for DeFi and institutional use cases.
Faster Time-to-Market
Leverage our battle-tested rollup framework and SDKs. We handle the complex ZK-circuit engineering and consensus layer, allowing your team to focus on core application development and go live in weeks, not months.
Selecting Your Execution Environment: A Strategic Comparison
A detailed comparison of the time, cost, and risk involved in developing a custom ZK-Rollup VM in-house versus leveraging Chainscore's production-ready implementation.
| Key Factor | Build In-House | Chainscore Implementation |
|---|---|---|
Development Timeline | 9-18 months | 8-16 weeks |
Initial Development Cost | $300K - $800K+ | $120K - $300K |
Core Team Required | 3-5 Senior ZK Engineers | Your existing devs + our experts |
Security & Audit Overhead | High (Multiple external audits) | Included (Pre-audited, battle-tested core) |
Time to First Production TX |
| < 4 months |
Ongoing Protocol Maintenance | Full dedicated team | Managed service with optional SLA |
Access to Upgrades (e.g., EIPs) | Your team's research capacity | Automatic, protocol-level updates |
Proven Production Reliability | Unproven, your risk | Based on audited code securing live assets |
Total Cost of Ownership (Year 1) | $500K - $1.2M+ | $150K - $400K |
Our Development & Integration Methodology
A systematic, security-first approach to deploying production-ready ZK-rollups. We focus on delivering measurable infrastructure improvements, not just theoretical proofs.
Architecture & Protocol Design
We design your custom VM (e.g., MIPS, RISC-V) and rollup architecture from first principles, ensuring optimal performance for your specific use case. This includes defining state transition logic, data availability models, and sequencer/prover economics.
Circuit Development & Optimization
Our team implements and rigorously optimizes the zero-knowledge circuits for your VM's instruction set. We focus on prover efficiency, proof size, and verification cost to minimize operational overhead.
Core Node Implementation
We build the sequencer, prover network, and data availability layers with enterprise-grade reliability. Implementation includes real-time monitoring, automatic failover, and multi-cloud deployment readiness.
Mainnet Deployment & Integration
We manage the full deployment lifecycle, including bridge contract deployment, tokenomics integration, and orchestrating the genesis block. We ensure seamless integration with existing wallets, explorers, and indexers.
Ongoing Infrastructure Management
Post-launch, we provide managed infrastructure services including prover coordination, node health monitoring, performance optimization, and protocol upgrade management to ensure long-term stability.
Typical Project Timeline & Deliverables
A clear breakdown of our phased approach to delivering a custom ZK-Rollup, from initial design to production launch and ongoing support.
| Phase & Deliverables | Starter (8-12 Weeks) | Professional (12-16 Weeks) | Enterprise (16-24 Weeks) |
|---|---|---|---|
Phase 1: Architecture & Design | Custom VM specification & circuit design | Starter + Consensus mechanism design | Professional + Multi-VM architecture & interoperability design |
Phase 2: Core Development | ZK-EVM/VM circuit implementation | Starter + Prover/Sequencer node development | Professional + Custom precompiles & bridge contracts |
Phase 3: Testing & Security | Internal audit & testnet deployment | Starter + Formal verification of core circuits | Professional + Third-party audit by top firm (e.g., Spearbit, Zellic) |
Phase 4: Deployment & Launch | Mainnet deployment support | Starter + Monitoring dashboard setup | Professional + Full production rollout with failover systems |
Post-Launch Support | 30 days of bug fixes | 6 months of technical support & upgrades | 12-month SLA with 99.9% uptime & dedicated SRE |
Team Composition | Lead Architect, 2 Senior Engineers | Starter + DevOps Engineer, Security Researcher | Professional + Dedicated Project Manager, Additional Engineering Squad |
Estimated Investment | $150K - $250K | $300K - $500K | $750K+ (Custom Quote) |
Frequently Asked Questions on Non-EVM ZK-Rollups
Get clear, technical answers on building high-performance ZK-Rollups with alternative virtual machines like Cairo, zkWASM, or zkEVM. We detail our process, timelines, and security standards.
For a production-ready, custom Non-EVM ZK-Rollup, we deliver in 6-12 weeks. This includes architecture design, core circuit development, prover/verifier implementation, and testnet deployment. A basic proof-of-concept can be delivered in 2-3 weeks. Timeline depends on VM choice (Cairo, zkWASM, etc.), transaction complexity, and required integrations.
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