Overview
Thespian is a software development company that plans, builds, and updates custom software for other businesses1. Companies hire it to bring a new product to market, modernize older systems, or add engineers to their own team2. Blockchain is one of the fields it serves, next to education, healthcare, and transportation3.
Nikola Glumac, an engineer, founded Thespian in 2015, and the company is based in Zagreb, Croatia1. Its Cardano experience comes from client projects. Thespian built the user-facing app, the server-side software, and the database for PubWeave, a science publishing platform started by the team at Intellart4. Alongside it came a marketplace for science-themed NFTs on Cardano, with smart contracts (programs that run on the blockchain) that let people buy and sell them5.
Key Features
- A new product taken from idea to launch. Thespian's product development service designs, builds, and delivers new apps2, following four steps: discovery, design, development, and deployment with ongoing support1.
- Older software updated in stages. Thespian's modernization service upgrades the most valuable parts of an existing system first, moving data and reworking code, and the company says the client's business keeps running throughout6.
- Extra engineers for an existing team. Thespian's staff augmentation places technical and domain experts inside a client's team, for stints of up to three months or longer, with an optional dedicated project manager7.
- Blockchain apps and token tools. Thespian's blockchain page lists NFT marketplaces, tokenomics (the rules for how a token is issued and shared out), smart contract suites, and Web3 apps, meaning apps that run on a blockchain8.
- Token giveaway systems. For Apex Fusion, a Swiss blockchain foundation, Thespian built an airdrop platform where people register to claim free tokens, with support for popular wallets, automatic eligibility checks, and tools to set up future rounds9.
What to Expect
For most visitors, the Thespian website works as a portfolio. A blog carries articles on blockchain basics, consensus, cryptocurrency, and DeFi, meaning financial services run by code instead of banks10. Case study pages walk through client projects and the results the company reports11.
Businesses sizing up a project can start without paying. A free two-hour workshop ends with a strategy report and a custom roadmap2. A free audit reviews a company's product documents and returns a 10-page report within three days, with an optional call to talk through it12.
Cardano teams comparing development companies will find the clearest record of Thespian's blockchain work in Project Catalyst proposals, the grant applications Cardano's community votes on. One proposal names Thespian Agency as the partner that contributed most of the Plutus smart contract and interface work for a planned marketplace code library13. Plutus is Cardano's native smart contract language.
Developers and technical buyers can see which tools Thespian works with. Its technology page lists Ruby on Rails, Elixir, React, Vue.js, and .NET, with hosting on services such as AWS, Azure, and Heroku14.
