Overview
MetaLamp is a software development agency that companies hire to build blockchain products they cannot build in-house. A startup might arrive with an idea and a deadline; a larger company might bring the team in because it needs engineers who already know a particular network. MetaLamp sells no product of its own, so its public record is its client work and the training material it gives away.
On Cardano, the company builds in Haskell and Plutus, the languages used to write smart contracts: the self-executing rules that hold funds and enforce terms on the network. Input Output named MetaLamp among the software development houses it partnered with to build the first Plutus applications on Cardano1. Clients engage it in one of three ways: hand over a whole project, borrow its engineers into their own team, or buy advice on a single hard problem2.
Key Features
- Cardano projects with a public write-up. MetaLamp built an NFT marketplace commissioned by Input Output, tying each minted token to a file stored on IPFS, a distributed file network, so ownership points at a fixed piece of content3.
- Haskell engineers who join the client's team. Iagon, a decentralized storage project, brought MetaLamp in to supply Haskell engineers for its Cardano product, including work on the first working version4.
- Free developer training. MetaLamp has run an unpaid, self-paced course in front-end and Haskell back-end development since 2016, finishing with code review by its own engineers5.
- Working notes published from paid projects. The company keeps an open knowledge base on smart contract design, covering bridges, oracles, auctions and upgradeable contracts, written from work it delivered6.
- One team across several networks. Alongside Haskell and Plutus for Cardano, MetaLamp's published stack covers Solidity for Ethereum-style chains, FunC for TON, and Anchor for Solana7.
What to Expect
Case pages name the client, the network, the stack, and whether the job ran as outsourcing or outstaffing, where its engineers work inside the client's team8. The fullest one walks through the marketplace build for Input Output, down to the languages used and how minted tokens were tied to uploaded files3.
If you are hiring, expect scoping before a price. The Cardano page sets out an intake sequence: a sales manager estimates timeline and budget, a product lead splits the work into costed stages, and the CTO reviews the architecture2. First contact runs through a form, Telegram, or a booking link.
If you are here to learn instead, the free material stands on its own. The Web3 roadmap is aimed at non-developers: recruiters, project managers, marketers and writers who need to follow what an engineering team is building9. The training program asks much more, ending in a working back-end service, code review, and an interview with MetaLamp engineers5.
