FP Block

FP Block is a blockchain engineering firm that builds production-ready distributed systems for teams that need to move fast without accumulating technical debt — turning complex blockchain concepts into auditable, scalable deployments ready for market.

Background

Originally founded in 2011 as FP Complete, a software consulting firm built around functional programming and Haskell, the company pivoted fully into Web3 and rebranded as FP Block in January 2024. The rebrand formalized a years-long shift toward blockchain infrastructure work that had already produced high-profile results, including the Levana Protocol — a decentralized perpetual swaps platform that has processed over $5 billion in cumulative trading volume.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, FP Block employs between 50 and 100 people, with more than 30 senior blockchain engineers on staff. The firm's leadership includes Wesley Crook as CEO, Aaron Contorer — a former Microsoft executive — as Founder and Chairman, Michael Snoyman as VP of Software Engineering, and Nicholas Ferguson as VP of Platform Engineering. The team reports an average of 20-plus years of engineering experience per member.

The Problem FP Block Solves

Building on a shared blockchain imposes real costs: variable gas fees, execution limits, block time delays, and the need to adapt product logic to fit infrastructure constraints rather than the other way around. For DeFi platforms, GameFi projects, and other high-throughput applications, these constraints can kill user experience or make an entire product category architecturally impractical on conventional chains.

FP Block's answer is to handle both the engineering work and the framework-level rethinking of how blockchain products are structured. The firm packages that philosophy into its proprietary Kolme framework while simultaneously offering the full engineering services needed to build, audit, and deploy production systems.

The Kolme Framework

Kolme is FP Block's Rust-based blockchain framework, open-sourced on GitHub under the fpco/kolme repository. Its central insight is that most shared-blockchain friction disappears when each application runs on its own dedicated public blockchain rather than competing for resources on a general-purpose chain.

The framework's architecture rests on three components:

Dedicated application blockchains. Every Kolme app operates on its own chain, eliminating congestion, throughput bottlenecks, and the fee volatility that plagues shared environments. Developers write application logic in Rust without smart contract restrictions, removing execution limits that would otherwise require workarounds.

Triadic security model. Three validator roles provide checks and balances. Listeners monitor external blockchain bridges for incoming activity. Processors execute transactions and produce blocks. Approvers authorize outgoing actions — such as withdrawals — before they settle on connected external chains. This separation prevents any single role from unilaterally controlling funds.

Multichain bridge contracts. Kolme applications stay isolated on their own chains but remain accessible to users through bridge contracts deployed on Solana, Ethereum, and NEAR. Users interact with familiar wallets on major chains; the bridge handles settlement without requiring them to switch ecosystems. Because Kolme applications continue processing even when a connected external chain experiences downtime, they are resilient to outages without halting operations.

Applications can also pull in external data — from oracles or public HTTP APIs — and store it on-chain with cryptographic signatures for verification, enabling price feeds, sports data, or any off-chain input without depending on a third-party oracle middleware layer.

Solana Expertise

FP Block's Rust-first culture translates directly to Solana, where programs are also written in Rust and performance characteristics demand low-level precision. The firm builds cross-chain Solana solutions including token bridges and lending protocols, and Kolme's bridge contracts natively connect to Solana, making it a natural settlement layer for Kolme-powered applications.

The firm's Solana pedigree is most visible through Levana Protocol, a decentralized perpetual swaps exchange that FP Block engineered and that has processed over $5 billion in cumulative trading volume since launch.

Services Portfolio

Beyond the Kolme framework, FP Block offers end-to-end engineering services:

• Full-stack blockchain development — architecture, backend engineering, and frontend integration
• Smart contract architecture and development — across Solana, EVM chains, and Cosmos SDK
• DeFi and GameFi solutions — exchange infrastructure, lending protocols, NFT platforms, and on-chain betting systems
• Blockchain integrations — Cosmos SDK modules, EVM-compatible chains (Polygon, Avalanche, BNB Chain), decentralized storage (IPFS, Arweave), and oracle layer connections including Chainlink
• Smart contract auditing — security review and formal analysis of deployed code
• Rescue and optimization services — taking over distressed or delayed projects and returning them to a production-ready state

Notable completed projects include Six Sigma Sports, a compliant on-chain sports betting system, and 1Ahead, an NFT gaming platform that generated $4 million in revenue within three days of launch. Clients have included Amgen, Hedera Hashgraph, eClerx, and Imperva.

Ecosystem Fit on Solana

FP Block occupies the infrastructure and services layer of the Solana ecosystem. Rather than being a protocol or end-user application, it functions as an engineering partner for teams building DeFi products, gaming platforms, and other on-chain systems that need high performance and are willing to invest in custom, production-quality engineering rather than off-the-shelf tooling.

The Kolme framework adds a distinct angle: it effectively extends Solana's reach by acting as a settlement layer and user-facing access point for applications that need dedicated-chain performance while still serving Solana wallet holders through bridge contracts. This positions FP Block not just as a service provider but as a builder of composable infrastructure that Solana-native projects can plug into for cross-chain scalability.

With over 100 delivered projects, an active developer documentation site at kolme.fpblock.com, and a live open-source framework, FP Block is an established firm in the Solana development ecosystem — one aimed at the subset of builders for whom standard tooling is insufficient and execution risk is the primary concern.