Overview
Inversion is a custom software company that builds, runs, and maintains software for other businesses. Clients can bring it in to write new systems, keep existing ones running, move older software to the cloud, or add blockchain features such as digital wallets, tokens, and NFTs (unique digital collectibles)1. The company started out writing software for insurance, reinsurance, and hedge fund firms1.
Piro Vorster and Jacques Bosch founded Inversion1. Its blockchain work has centered on Cardano, where the team has built client apps and contributed code to a shared developer library through two community-funded grants2. Intersect, the member organization for Cardano governance, has featured Inversion as one of its enterprise members3.
Key Features
- Cardano apps built to order. Inversion's Cardano page lists apps for creating, destroying, and managing NFTs, tools for staking and delegation, tools that monitor and analyze chain data, and apps that integrate with the chain2.
- C# programs that can read Cardano transactions. A Project Catalyst grant, from Cardano's community funding program, paid Inversion to teach the CardanoSharp library to turn raw transaction data into objects that C# code can work with. Catalyst marks the project complete4.
- .NET websites that talk to browser wallets. A second Catalyst grant produced a component that lets Blazor WebAssembly apps, sites that run C# in the browser with Microsoft's .NET tools, connect to browser wallets such as Nami through CIP-30, the shared standard for how Cardano wallets and websites talk5.
- Planning for heavy traffic. Inversion says it has the expertise to design and host systems that can handle high user volume, pointing out that managing a system for 500 users differs from managing one for 5,000 or 50,0002.
- Three ways to hire the team. Clients can add Inversion developers to their own staff, hand a project to a dedicated team Inversion manages, or bring in experts who help form potential solutions by considering the perspectives of the business, the end-users, and the technical team1.
What to Expect
Inversion sells a service, not an app, so there is nothing to download and no wallet to connect. Visitors to inversion.dev find a list of services, client endorsements, a founders section, a company blog1, and a separate Cardano page that explains the team's blockchain work2. The services cover software development and maintenance, DevOps (automating how code gets tested and released), cloud migration, and cloud hosting1.
Organizations looking for a Cardano development partner will find the most relevant detail on the Cardano page. It includes a testimonial from Aaron Arfman, founder of The Art Bank, who credits Inversion with building his company's NFT products2. Other endorsements on the homepage come from finance and insurance firms such as Nephila Capital and Lockton Re1. To start a project, the site lists a contact email and a link to book a call with Jacques Bosch1.
Developers who write in C# can use the results of Inversion's Catalyst work directly. The transaction-reading code was merged into the CardanoSharp wallet library on GitHub6. The wallet-connection component is published as a free package on NuGet, the public package library for .NET code, under an MIT open-source license7.
