Gateway

Gateway.fm is a blockchain infrastructure provider founded in 2021 that has evolved into what it describes as an "institutional infrastructure orchestrator for sovereign onchain finance." Where most node and RPC providers target individual developers and Web3 teams, Gateway explicitly courts banks, central banks, financial market infrastructure operators, and enterprises that need regulated, auditable, and institution-controlled blockchain deployments.

What Gateway Builds

The company organizes its offerings into two main commercial products layered over a shared technical catalogue.

Gateway Platform is composable, Gateway-owned infrastructure designed with explicit control boundaries. Institutions can deploy it across cloud, regional, on-premises, or hybrid environments—an important distinction for banks operating under data-residency or sovereignty requirements. The platform provides the underlying compute, networking, and blockchain node layer that clients run their financial applications on.

Gateway Orchestration goes a layer higher, combining the Platform with a curated ecosystem of specialist providers and integration teams into a single operating model. The goal is to let an institution procure and launch a complex financial product—say, a tokenized deposit system or a wholesale CBDC settlement layer—through one coordinated vendor rather than assembling twenty specialized vendors independently.

Supporting both products is a technical catalogue that spans managed RPC access, indexing, oracles, zero-knowledge provers, account abstraction, and validator infrastructure. Gateway's delivery methodology runs through five stages—Explore, Define, Validate, Launch, and Scale—positioning the company as an implementation partner rather than a self-serve commodity API provider.

Open Privacy Suite

A flagship product in Gateway's portfolio is the Open Privacy Suite, described as offering "controlled visibility and authorised disclosure for institutional EVM environments." It provides privacy zones, granular permissions, and selective disclosure capabilities—tools designed for institutions that must share transactional data with regulators or auditors while keeping it shielded from other market participants. Privacy-preserving infrastructure is increasingly a prerequisite for institutions exploring tokenized assets and interbank settlement, and Gateway's suite targets precisely this compliance gap.

Presto: Rollup-as-a-Service

Gateway's Presto product is a rollup deployment platform that allows users to spin up zkEVM and optimistic rollups across Polygon CDK, Arbitrum, OP Stack, and Besu configurations. As of mid-2024 the company reported more than 3,000 cumulative rollup deployments and over 25 active Presto onboardings, with the platform supporting more than 35 configuration options including private zkEVM rollups and gasless transactions. Notable deployments include Wirex's WPay decentralized payment network, Gnosis Pay, Humanity Protocol, and an EU government digital identity project.

Technical Stack and Supported Networks

On the infrastructure layer, Gateway supports multiple EVM-compatible networks. Its documentation highlights Ethereum and Polygon zkEVM as primary networks, with CDK-Erigon—a high-performance node implementation optimized for Polygon zkEVM protocols, maintained in part by Gateway's CTO Igor Mandrigin—as a core component of its stack. The broader network compatibility extends to Besu, Arbitrum, OP Stack, Polygon CDK, and the proprietary Gateway Stack for custom deployments.

For cross-chain scenarios, Gateway references integrations with AggLayer, Hyperlane, and Chainlink CCIP—protocols that enable asset and message passing across chains. This interoperability layer matters for institutional use cases such as a bank needing a tokenized deposit on one chain to settle against a CBDC layer on another.

RPC access is delivered through a tiered model: a public tier (up to 30 requests per second) and enterprise tiers supporting up to 30,000 requests per second across geographic regions including Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany.

Stakeway: Validator Infrastructure

Under the Stakeway brand, Gateway operates Ethereum validator and staking infrastructure. The company reports more than $1.3 billion in assets staked through its infrastructure and a claimed service availability of 99.99%. Validator services serve both protocol participants and institutions requiring delegated staking management.

Scale, Credentials, and Funding

Gateway reports processing more than 20 billion infrastructure requests per month across its network. The company holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications and publishes PwC-audited financials—a credentialing posture aimed at regulated institutional clients that cannot onboard unaudited infrastructure vendors.

In February 2023, Gateway raised a $4.6 million seed round led by Lemniscap, with participation from the Fantom Foundation, Unstoppable Domains Ventures, CMT Digital Ventures, LAO DAO, and Folius Ventures. No subsequent public funding rounds had been announced as of mid-2025.

Leadership includes CEO Cuautemoc Weber, CTO Igor Mandrigin (a core CDK-Erigon contributor), and CSO/CCO Pradeep Singh, who joined as co-founder in mid-2024.

Editorial Focus and Market Positioning

Gateway's blog output through 2025 and into 2026 targets traditional financial institutions evaluating blockchain adoption. Topics have included tokenization of bank deposits, migration paths away from Hyperledger Fabric, GDPR-compliant on-chain identity using zero-knowledge proofs, real-world asset tokenization, and rollup development on Agglayer CDK. An August 2026 post titled "Gateway for Sovereign Onchain Finance" reflects the company's current positioning around national and institutional financial sovereignty—language that resonates with central bank digital currency programs and regulated capital markets infrastructure.

Gateway occupies a narrow but high-value niche. It does not compete with mass-market RPC providers on price or developer experience. Instead it competes on enterprise contract structure, regulatory credentialing, and the ability to deliver a complete financial product stack rather than individual API endpoints. Its tag line—"Build on our Platform to focus on Business"—captures a pitch aimed at institutions that want to ship financial products on blockchain without maintaining a dedicated blockchain engineering department.

The company's Twitter presence (@gateway_eth) and technical documentation reflect a primary focus on the Ethereum and EVM ecosystem. Gateway.fm is active and operating as of mid-2026, with current blog content, maintained documentation, and a live commercial website at gateway.fm.