Saloon believes a deal should hold because both sides want it to — not because someone in the middle is watching. We build the rails to keep contracts honest and easy to use. The reason to follow through on your word lives inside the deal. No middleman. No house.
Two people want to make a deal. To trust it will hold, they hand it to someone in the middle — a platform, a bank, a house. That third party takes a cut, keeps the data, holds the money, and gets the last word when it goes sideways. The deal was between two people. Somehow a stranger owns it.
Take the stranger away and most deals fall apart — because the reason to keep them was never in the deal. It sat with a referee: slow, expensive, far from the table, ruling on a game they never watched. So people hedge, stall, and walk.
We think the reason to keep a deal should live in the deal itself — and travel with it, whether the other side of the table is a person or a machine. No house. No referee. No cut.
A contract no one can reach helps no one. We build the on-ramps and bridges — the interfaces — that make creating, running, and fulfilling it effortless, for people and machines alike.
The agreement that holds the deal lives in code. Logic, state, and settlement live in the contract's code.
A deal is only as good as the reasons to keep it. We build those in — stakes, reputation, trust that compounds — so following through is the obvious move, not the noble one.
Players set the match and the terms, back their own follow-through, and call the winner themselves. The contract holds the stakes and settles on their word — on-chain, no host, no referee. Proof that people keep deals when the deal is built to be kept.
Visit ArcadeArchitecture and development. Previously built internal encryption services at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Research and design. Previously designed web applications at VML.
Quality assurance and platform infrastructure. Previously tested automation for early-stage software companies.