ErgoPad - Ergo Blockchain Launchpad & Staking Platform
Ergo launchpad and staking platform I founded and led, with more than 20 million USD across the platforms at peak, contracts audited by Ergo's designer, and self-hosted multi-continent infrastructure.
Outcome
More than 20 million USD across the platforms at peak.
The team I led built and ran ErgoPad through the 2021 bull market, with more than 20 million USD across the platforms at their peak, zero exploits since 2021, and zero unplanned downtime during my tenure, on self-hosted infrastructure built because cloud node operations were too expensive at that scale.
Overview
Early-stage blockchain projects need fundraising infrastructure that can both run a token sale and keep serving holders after launch, and during the 2021 bull market that infrastructure barely existed for emerging chains like Ergo. I founded ErgoPad and led the distributed team that built it, the launchpad and staking platform for the Ergo ecosystem, along with the threat modeling and the design decisions. We scaled it to thousands of concurrent users at peak market activity, and ran the underlying blockchain indexing on self-hosted physical infrastructure across Canada and Europe because cloud node operations were cost-prohibitive at that scale. The on-chain contracts were written by the ErgoScript contract author on the team and audited by Kushti, the designer of Ergo, and they secured the platform's IDO launches, staking with configurable emissions, automated token vesting, yield farming, and governance. Across the platforms there was more than 20 million USD at peak, zero exploits since 2021, and zero unplanned downtime during my tenure.
What it does
- Audited smart contracts manage IDO launches, automated token vesting, staking with configurable emissions, yield farming, and on-chain governance.
- Custom blockchain indexing runs on self-hosted physical infrastructure in Canada and Europe, providing the clean indexed query layer the API consumes.
- The platform handled thousands of concurrent users at peak market activity during the 2021 bull cycle without service degradation.
- A layered distributed system separates indexing, API, and frontend tiers so each can scale and recover independently.
- We designed the infrastructure for reliability and query performance under high load rather than for the lowest possible cloud bill.
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