Overview
Dynamic Strategies is a software company that builds applications for finance, trading, and risk management. Banks and corporate treasury desks are one audience; cyclists, writers, and everyday crypto users are another. The portfolio spans trading infrastructure for banks, a cycling analytics app, a typing-replay tool, and free developer code1.
Most of the company's blockchain work sits on Cardano. Dynamic Strategies operates the DSIO stake pool, registered on the network since 20202, and it is a registered DRep, a delegate who votes on Cardano governance questions for the ADA holders who pick them3. It has also put proposals to Project Catalyst, Cardano's community funding program, several of them funded and completed4. Dmitry Shibaev founded the company in 2022, and the team carries banking backgrounds from NatWest Markets, ING Bank, and Royal Bank of Scotland1.
Key Features
- Free reference code for wallet-connected apps. The Cardano Wallet Connector is an MIT-licensed React project that reads a wallet's balance and tokens, sends ADA and NFTs, and locks or releases funds held by a Plutus script, on-chain code that enforces agreed terms5.
- Interest rate hedging moved onto a blockchain. Block Margin handles the contracts companies use to guard against rising borrowing costs, putting the terms into on-chain code and moving the cash each side posts as rates shift. It runs as a prototype on Cardano's test network6.
- Reward estimates before you delegate ADA. Dynamic Strategies lists the Cardano Reward Calculator, hosted on cardano.org, among its delivered work. It simulates the spread of rewards a stake pool might produce under different pool and network settings1.
- The finance engineering, written up in public. The article hub explains how Dynamic Strategies prices forward rate agreements, contracts that lock in a future borrowing rate, on Cardano's accounting model. It walks through the rate oracle, the pricing step, and the risk engine7.
- Products for cyclists, banks, and writers. RiskView turns banks' published risk disclosures into stress scenarios, WattsWise turns cycling power data into race-day targets on a Garmin device, and Just Human replays your keystrokes to evidence that a person wrote a document1.
What to Expect
The site is one scrolling page: a product grid where each project gets a card and a link out to its own site, a short team section naming three people, and a contact form1. The detail lives on the product sites and in the code repositories. One card leads to Cardano Beam, a paused project that let people leave ADA, tokens, or NFTs at a point on a world map for someone else to collect in person8.
Developers get the most out of a visit. The GitHub account holds the wallet connector alongside smaller Cardano repositories: a card payment gateway, a lottery contract, an NFT minter, and a public data query service9. The connector's design point is that transactions get built in the browser with JavaScript, so only the on-chain half needs Haskell5.
If you would rather read than build, the article hub is a dated feed mixing workshop material, product announcements, and derivatives write-ups10. The finance posts are heavy going for a non-technical reader; the product sites are the gentler way in.
ADA holders have another way in: you can delegate to the DSIO stake pool from a Cardano wallet that supports stake-pool delegation2, and Dynamic Strategies votes in Cardano governance as a registered DRep3.
