If you need a single external team to design, build, and audit a blockchain product from the ground up, Solicy is a credible boutique worth serious consideration. But if you're looking to embed a skilled engineer inside your existing team, this is the wrong model entirely.

Solicy is a blockchain and software development company headquartered in Yerevan, Armenia. It operates as a project-based delivery shop rather than a staffing provider: clients engage Solicy to build something, and Solicy's team builds it. The company sits at roughly 30 people and positions itself as an end-to-end Web3 partner covering the full stack of blockchain product delivery. The service catalog spans smart contract development and auditing, DeFi platform development, NFT marketplace development, decentralized exchange (DEX) development, crypto wallet development, Web3 integrations, token platforms, and blockchain API development. Alongside its blockchain core, Solicy also offers conventional software services including web and mobile development, UI/UX design, QA testing, and project management. Solicy actively participates in major industry events. Its presence at Paris Blockchain Week signals a genuine commitment to the Web3 ecosystem rather than opportunistic positioning. The company maintains an Insights blog covering blockchain, software development, and AI topics, and communicates across LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Discord, and Facebook.

Solicy's model is project-based SDLC delivery. A client comes in with a Web3 product to build, Solicy scopes and staffs it internally, and delivers. Engagements typically begin within about a week of signing, which is meaningfully fast for a project-based boutique. The company covers its clients' full blockchain build lifecycle:

For DeFi specifically, Solicy builds non-custodial architectures for lending, staking, trading, and yield protocols, and audits smart contracts prior to launch. That audit step matters: shipping unaudited contracts into a DeFi context is how projects get drained. The company's public case studies include an NFT minting platform and a Web3 loyalty platform built for Kazm, a U.S.-based client, demonstrating actual delivered work across NFT infrastructure and Web3/Web2 data bridging.

Depth of blockchain specialization. Solicy doesn't dabble in Web3 as a side offering. Its entire identity is built around blockchain delivery: smart contracts, DeFi, NFT marketplaces, DEXs, wallets, tokenomics, and audits. For a founder building in this space, having one team that speaks all of these fluently under one roof is genuinely valuable. End-to-end delivery, including audits. Most project shops build; fewer audit. Solicy's explicit inclusion of smart contract auditing as part of its service catalog means clients aren't sourcing a second vendor to handle security review before launch. For DeFi products especially, that integration is a real operational advantage. Fast engagement start. A roughly one-week onboarding window from signing to project start is competitive for a boutique delivery shop. Founders who have burned months waiting for large agencies to mobilize will find that pace refreshing. Real case studies with named clients. Solicy's published case studies, including work for Kazm on a Web3 loyalty platform, provide specific, verifiable evidence of delivery rather than vague capability claims. That transparency is a signal worth weighting.

The model is project-based, not embedded staffing. Solicy operates as an external team that builds your product on your behalf. If your need is an engineer who joins your Slack, attends your standups, ships inside your codebase, and reports to your engineering lead, Solicy's model is not structured for that pattern. This isn't a criticism; it's a structural reality to understand before signing. Concurrent capacity is inherently limited at 30 people. A team of this size can run a focused number of engagements well. If your project has broad scope across blockchain and non-blockchain workstreams simultaneously, or if you anticipate rapid scaling of the engagement, capacity constraints become a practical consideration. Solicy's strength is depth within blockchain; breadth across unrelated engineering domains is not where a 30-person specialist shop naturally excels. Time zone overlap with US teams requires planning. Solicy operates out of Yerevan, Armenia, with additional presence in the UAE. Overlap with US East Coast and West Coast working hours is limited. Teams that rely on synchronous collaboration throughout the day will need to build async-first communication practices into the engagement from day one. This is solvable, but it requires deliberate process design rather than assuming it will work out.

Solicy is a strong fit for a specific kind of buyer:

Solicy delivers a Web3 product for you. That's a legitimate thing to want. But a different kind of buyer needs something else: a named engineer who joins their team, builds inside their stack, ships to their roadmap, and grows with the company. For that buyer, the search usually starts on a marketplace or staffing platform. And that's where the real problem begins. The best blockchain engineers available right now aren't on a platform. They're not on a bench. They're heads-down inside a contract they're proud of, or building something of their own. Nextdev reaches the top 1% of AI engineers, including the ones who aren't looking. Here's how we know they're the real thing: we give each of them a real problem to build and watch how they actually work. Not a quiz. Not a portfolio review. We watch how they decompose a brief, how they use AI tooling to move fast without losing precision, how they handle ambiguity. You know they're AI-native because you've seen it, not because a profile claimed it. Once a match is right, we employ them directly. One named engineer, one contract on your desk, payroll and compliance handled. You don't manage a vendor relationship or an offshore team. You get an engineer. The engineers who end up at Nextdev clients are not the ones who applied to a job board. They're the ones who never would have.

Solicy is a legitimate, specialized blockchain boutique. For founders who need an external team to build a DeFi platform, NFT marketplace, decentralized exchange, or smart contract infrastructure from scratch, it checks the right boxes: genuine depth, integrated auditing, named case studies, fast start, and a team that operates exclusively in the Web3 space rather than treating blockchain as one service line among dozens. The honest ceiling is capacity and model. At 30 people, Solicy can execute focused blockchain engagements well; it cannot absorb large, sprawling concurrent workstreams. And its project-based delivery model is built for clients who want an external team to own a build, not for companies that want to grow their own engineering bench with embedded hires. If your 2026 roadmap includes a blockchain product that needs an end-to-end external partner, Solicy deserves serious evaluation. If your roadmap includes building an internal team of AI-native engineers who embed in your organization and scale with it, that's a different problem, and it requires a different approach. The right tool here depends entirely on which problem you're actually solving.