About Us

Blink Labs grew out of a production infrastructure consultancy and a Cardano stake pool launched in 2021. That operational background still shapes how we work: build carefully, test in realistic environments, and plan for the systems that will have to run after launch.

Today we design and maintain open source software across the Cardano and Handshake ecosystems. Our team brings decades of experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, storage, data systems, and regulated industries to projects ranging from focused developer tools to global production platforms.

We help teams move from an idea to dependable software they can understand and own. The result is practical engineering, clear delivery, and long-term support backed by public code wherever possible.

Ecosystem work

Engineering in public

Blink Labs shares practical engineering through open-source projects, ecosystem events, and public technical demos.

Conference

Cardano Buidler Fest

Chris Gianelloni joined the speaker lineup for Cardano builders and protocol engineers.

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Buidler Fest talk

How I vibe coded my way here with Go

Chris Gianelloni's 2026 Buenos Aires talk on building with Go and AI-assisted development.

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Conference

Cardano Summit

Christina Gianelloni represented Blink Labs in the infrastructure track at Cardano Summit 2024.

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Developer Office Hours

Exploring Dingo

Chris Gianelloni explains Dingo's Go architecture, roadmap, and the value of node implementation diversity for Cardano.

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Community interview

gOuroboros

Learn Cardano's interview covers Blink's Go implementation of the Ouroboros network protocols.

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Community video

Blink Labs' Go-based Cardano node

Learn Cardano explores why Blink Labs' Go-based node could strengthen Cardano's implementation diversity.

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Upcoming conference

Boston Blockchain Week

Chris Gianelloni is announced as a speaker for the September 2026 event focused on builders and digital infrastructure.

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Video

Project demos and updates

Watch public demos and milestone updates for Dingo, Cardano Node API, cDNSd, and Cardano tooling.

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Patent author

Three cluster management patents

Christopher Gianelloni is a named inventor on three U.S. patents for automating cluster planning, provisioning, and operations.

Planner for cluster management system Provisioner for cluster management system Solver for cluster management system

Open source

Open source is central to how we establish trust. Our public nodes, protocol libraries, indexers, data services, and operator tools let customers and collaborators inspect the engineering behind our work. We contribute across Cardano and Handshake while building reusable infrastructure for the wider blockchain community.

Explore our projects Visit GitHub

Protocol and node software

Indexers and data services

Deployment and operations tooling

Team

Our team combines backgrounds in open source, production infrastructure, data systems, and regulated industries. We work directly with customers from technical discovery through delivery and long-term operation, keeping decisions visible and transferring knowledge as we go.

Chris

CEO

Christina

COO & Community

Akhil

Developer

Ales

Developer & Infrastructure

Aurora

Developer

Brian

Frontend Developer

Chris

Developer

DJ

Developer

Jenita

Developer

Rich

Technical Writer

Tripura

Infrastructure

Wayne

Stake Pool Operations