Globant

Overview

Globant is a technology services company that designs and builds software for large organizations, with a strong focus on AI¹. Businesses hire Globant when they want an outside team of engineers and designers to plan, build, and run a digital project for them. One of its specialist teams works on blockchain projects, such as digital tokens and smart contracts, which are programs that carry out an agreement automatically once its conditions are met².

Globant was founded in Argentina in 2003, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GLOB, and organizes its work into studios, each built around one industry or skill³. Its Cardano ties come from two directions. In 2021 it bought Atix Labs, an Argentine blockchain firm whose partners included Input Output and the Cardano Foundation⁴. Later, Input Output, the engineering company that built Cardano, signed a memorandum of understanding with Globant, a written statement of intent to explore new possibilities at the intersection of blockchain and AI⁵.

Key Features

• Blockchain projects built to order. Globant's Blockchain Studio designs digital tokens and NFTs, smart contracts, and decentralized finance products, meaning financial services that run on a blockchain instead of through a bank².
• Blockchain strategy advice. The Blockchain Studio also consults on where a blockchain fits a business and then develops the platform the client settles on².
• Past contribution to Cardano Rosetta. Engineers from Atix Labs, the blockchain firm Globant acquired, contributed code to the Cardano Foundation's Cardano Rosetta implementation, a standard interface for integrating software with Cardano⁶.
• Specialists who know the client's industry. Globant's AI Studios group experts by sector, including airlines, automotive, financial services, games, and healthcare, so a client works with people who know its field⁷.
• A listing in the Midnight ecosystem. Midnight, a privacy-focused partner chain linked to Cardano, lists Globant in its ecosystem catalog as a development shop offering software product development, AI, and strategy services⁸.

What to Expect

The globant.com site is written for companies shopping for a technology partner. Most of it covers AI services, such as AI Pods and Globant Enterprise AI, along with the industry studios¹. The blockchain offering sits on its own Blockchain Studio page, which describes its four practices and ends with a contact form for reaching the team².

For organizations planning a Cardano project, Globant is a firm to hire rather than a tool to use, and it sits alongside other development companies in the directory. Its Cardano record is at the company level: the Atix Labs team's code contributions⁶ and the agreement with Input Output to explore blockchain and AI work together⁵.

Globant's blockchain interests reach beyond Cardano. The company joined the Paima Engine ecosystem as a Paima Engine Professional, a recognized partner group that builds with the Paima Engine, a Web3 engine for apps that run on blockchains⁹. At a Globant blockchain event, Atix Labs was presented as a Globant division, and its co-founder gave a talk on building for Web3, the name often used for apps that run on blockchains¹⁰.