DeFi Gameverse

From lag to lightning

You're building a DeFi platform, but you have no cloud infrastructure strategy and no in-house expertise to design one. Where do you even start to build a secure, scalable system that users will trust with their assets?

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In DeFi, infrastructure goes beyond performance - it's about trust.

Users rely on the platform with their crypto assets, making security, compliance, and reliability non-negotiable. Our client needed more than a technical build-out - they required a strategic partner who could serve as their Solution Architect, designing a multi-layered AWS environment that would meet the stringent demands.

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GameFi Platform

iGaming infrastructure

GameFi project creating an immersive platform where users grow their crypto assets through interactive, game-like experiences, requiring enterprise-grade security and performance.

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Through architectural design and optimization on AWS, we delivered a platform with sub-one-second response times and sustained uptime, ensuring a seamless user experience even under high transaction volumes.

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AWS + Kubernetes

We architected the entire infrastructure on AWS, leveraging EKS for scalability and a comprehensive security suite including WAF, Shield, Secrets Manager, and IAM to protect crypto assets.

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“The best result is that our goals have been achieved. Our site response is really fast, less than one second. The cloud infrastructure works with sustained uptime.”

Harry Palteka

CEO, iGaming platform

What we did for DeFi Gameverse

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“How do you architect a DeFi platform from absolute zero?”

This project wasn't only about migrating an existing system or optimizing a legacy stack. It was a greenfield build requiring a complete architectural vision. Our process covered the full lifecycle: strategic design, full automation, multi-layered security implementation, and comprehensive observability to ensure the platform could handle crypto assets with enterprise-grade reliability.

  1. Infrastructure Design from Scratch. The engagement began with our Solution Architect working directly with the client to understand their business goals and translate them into a technical blueprint. We designed the entire AWS architecture, selecting EKS for scalable container orchestration, RDS (PostgreSQL) for transactional data, and a secure network topology using NAT Gateways and private subnets to protect sensitive components.
  2. Full Infrastructure & Deployment Automation. To enable rapid, consistent deployments, we implemented a complete automation stack. The infrastructure was provisioned entirely with Terraform, ensuring every environment was identical. A CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions automated code integration, testing, and deployment, with real-time Slack notifications keeping the team aligned on every release.
  3. Implementing Multi-Layered Security for Crypto Assets. Since security was non-negotiable, we deployed AWS WAF and Shield for DDoS protection, Secrets Manager for secure key and credential storage, KMS for encryption at rest, and IAM for strict role-based access control. This multi-layered approach ensured that user assets and sensitive data were protected at every level of the stack.
  4. Monitoring & Observability. To maintain operational excellence, we established full observability using CloudWatch for real-time monitoring and alerting, CloudTrail for audit logging, and Amazon EventBridge to coordinate automated responses to infrastructure events. This proactive monitoring, combined with strategic resource management, allowed the client to minimize costs post-launch while maintaining the sub-one-second response times they required.
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Trust, security and resilience for business and investors

We begin by acting as Solution Architect to translate your business goals into a complete technical blueprint. For a greenfield DeFi project like our client's, this meant designing the entire AWS architecture from scratch.

The process started with defining the core requirements for security, scalability, and compliance. We then designed the foundational layers, including a secure network topology, configured EKS and RDS, and created a comprehensive plan for implementation, ensuring a start with a robust and future-proof strategy.

It means security is not a single feature, but a defense-in-depth strategy that protects the platform at every level, from the public internet down to the individual data record.

For this project, the layers included:

  • Edge Protection: Using AWS WAF and Shield to block DDoS attacks and malicious web traffic before it reaches the application.
  • Access Control: Implementing strict, least-privilege IAM roles and workload identity to control who and what can access critical resources.
  • Secrets Management: Centralizing all keys, credentials, and seed words in AWS Secrets Manager to eliminate hard-coded secrets.
  • Data Encryption: Leveraging AWS KMS to ensure all sensitive data stored in services like S3 and RDS is encrypted at rest.

By building on a containerized, microservices-based architecture orchestrated by Kubernetes. This approach allows individual components of the platform to scale independently based on demand.

We deployed the core services on AWS EKS, which automatically manages resource allocation. For asynchronous processing of high-demand transactions, we integrated event-driven services like AWS Lambda and SNS/SQS, ensuring the platform remains responsive and performant even during peak usage.

Through a fully automated CI/CD pipeline that enforces consistency and minimizes human error. The goal is to make deployments frequent, reliable, and safe.

We implemented a pipeline using GitHub Actions that automates the entire process from code commit to production. The infrastructure itself is defined as code using Terraform, which ensures that every environment is provisioned identically, eliminating configuration drift and making the deployment process predictable and auditable.

Comprehensive, real-time observability across the entire stack is critical. You need to not only monitor performance but also maintain a complete audit trail for security and compliance.

Our solution involved integrating Amazon CloudWatch for deep infrastructure health monitoring and application performance metrics. We configured custom alarms to notify the team of any anomalies for rapid response.

For compliance, AWS CloudTrail was implemented to provide detailed, immutable logs of all API activity and system events, creating a robust audit trail.

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