onchain.consulting is a specialized Web3 infrastructure and governance consultancy founded by a veteran operator with over a decade of hands-on experience in the crypto ecosystem. Since 2014, the consultant has been deeply embedded in building, operating, and governing critical blockchain infrastructure and decentralized organizations.
Background and Expertise
The founder has been active in the Ethereum ecosystem from its earliest days, operating as a solo validator and infrastructure operator before it became mainstream. As a founding team member at MakerDAO (2015-2018), they contributed to governance, tokenomics, DAO operations, and community building during the creation of DAI, one of the most successful decentralized stablecoins.
Their advisory work includes consulting for Aragon on early DAO governance models (2017) and providing crypto strategy and DAO-based investment structuring guidance to CoinFund. Since 2018, they have been a long-term Cosmos ecosystem validator and infrastructure operator, actively validating for Agoric and multiple other chains while maintaining deep involvement in the Urbit ecosystem.
Core Services
The consultancy offers eight primary service areas:
Blockchain Infrastructure: Professional-grade deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of nodes across Ethereum, Cosmos, EigenDA, and Urbit. Services include high-availability setups using Docker, systemd, Tailscale, Caddy, Prometheus, and Grafana, along with validator operations, performance optimization, and key management.
DAO Governance Architecture: Complete governance framework design and operation, including proposal systems, voting mechanisms, member management, incentive structures, and conflict resolution for organizations at any stage.
On-Chain Operations: Comprehensive management of token distributions, vesting schedules, SAFE/SAFT tracking, and complete token lifecycle processes. This includes executing controller functions, burns, redemptions, and designing custom Snapshot strategies for voting systems.
Smart Contract Integration: Expert interaction with smart contracts for admin operations, governance calls, and state management. Services include coordinating engineering teams around deployments, auditing operational workflows, and creating data pipelines for token accounting.
Strategic Consulting: High-level advisory on token economics, ecosystem strategy, market positioning, and product design for on-chain systems. This includes community design, incentive structures, long-term roadmapping, and organizational models.
Infrastructure Audits: Thorough review of validator operations, uptime, security posture, and processes with recommendations for improving reliability, decentralization, and cost efficiency.
Identity & Knowledge Systems: Design of decentralized identity frameworks, social graph mapping, and permissioned access controls. Development of AI-driven interfaces for blockchain communities via Telegram, chatbots, and knowledge bases.
Executive DAO Operations: Full-stack day-to-day operations for foundations, grants programs, investment clubs, and token-holder groups, including compliance, filings, documentation, board-level financial reports, NAV tracking, and multi-party decision management.
Notable Clients and Projects
The consultancy has worked with leading Web3 projects including MakerDAO, Ethereum, Cosmos, Agoric, Urbit, Aragon, MetaCartel Ventures, Octu Ventures, Hydra Ventures, and EigenDA. As lead manager for MetaCartel Ventures since 2019, the consultant handles full-stack DAO operations including governance, accounting, distributions, legal compliance, and NAV reporting.
Key Strengths
What distinguishes onchain.consulting is the depth of operational experience. This is not theoretical consulting from the sidelines, but guidance grounded in real-world experience including late-night debugging sessions, complex multi-party governance decisions, and the unglamorous work of keeping critical infrastructure running. The consultant has served on the Urbit Senate, founded two investment DAOs (Urbit DAO in 2019 and Octu Ventures in 2023), and maintains active validator operations across multiple blockchain networks.
The consultancy combines technical infrastructure expertise with deep governance and operational knowledge, making it particularly valuable for projects that need both the technical capability to run reliable infrastructure and the organizational wisdom to govern and operate decentralized systems effectively.
Why Choose onchain.consulting
For projects building infrastructure or running DAOs that need someone who has done the work at scale with leading organizations, onchain.consulting offers battle-tested expertise backed by a decade of proven results in the Web3 ecosystem. The consultancy's unique combination of founding team experience at MakerDAO, active validator operations across multiple chains, and executive-level DAO management provides a comprehensive perspective that few consultants can match.
