Overview
SAIB is a software development company that businesses hire to build Cardano applications, including smart contracts, custom tokens, wallets, and NFT marketplaces1. Alongside that client work, SAIB publishes code libraries that let programmers who use Microsoft's .NET languages, such as C#, build on Cardano without switching languages2.
The company is based in Cebu, in the Philippines3, and its founders started it around a shared interest in Cardano1. Its homepage describes the core focus as decentralized applications on that network1, and its developer portal documents the tools the in-house team maintains2.
Key Features
- Cardano development for hire. SAIB builds DApps and writes smart contracts, programs that run on the blockchain and enforce their own rules, in the contract languages Aiken, PlutusTx, and Plutarch. It also handles NFT minting, token creation, staking platforms, and wallet integration1.
- A .NET toolkit for working with Cardano. Chrysalis, released under the MIT open-source license4, lets C# developers read and write Cardano data, build and sign transactions, generate wallet keys and addresses, and talk directly to network nodes5.
- Blockchain activity in an ordinary database. Argus is an indexer, software that reads each new block and saves the parts a developer cares about into a database6. .NET teams can then query Cardano activity with the same tools they use for business data6.
- Smart contracts written in F#. Futura is SAIB's language for writing Cardano smart contracts in F#, another .NET language, and turning them into code the network can run7.
- Public speed tests for contract engines. The Cardano Plutus VM Benchmark from SAIB runs several engines that execute Cardano smart contracts against the same set of real-world contracts and publishes a side-by-side comparison8.
What to Expect
Organizations looking to hire SAIB will find a single-page site that lists each service with a link to book a call. A team section introduces the staff by name and role, from chief executive Clark Alesna through designers and engineers1.
Developers get more to explore. The developer portal covers Chrysalis and Argus, including install guides5 and C# code examples6. Argus grew out of a grant from Project Catalyst, Cardano's community funding program2. The Catalyst record for that grant, filed under the tool's earlier name Cardano.Sync, lists it as complete9. Source code for these tools sits in the company's GitHub organization3, where Argus carries the Apache 2.0 open-source license10.
SAIB is also building Buriza, a wallet suite for phones, browsers, and desktops that is designed so people can run their own backend servers instead of relying on a company's. The Buriza code repository describes the wallet as in development11.
