How much does a Web3 MVP cost?

A Web3 MVP at 137 ranges from €19,000 for a 4-week testnet prototype to €79,000 for an 8-week tokenized product with frontends and integrations. The industry average is €50,000 to €250,000 over three to five months.

How long does it take to build a Web3 MVP?

Four to eight weeks, depending on scope. Industry timelines for the same scope average sixteen weeks.

What is included in a fixed-price MVP?

Fixed-price MVPs include discovery, smart contracts, frontend, wallet and auth integration, tests, and deployment scripts. Audit coordination is included from 6-week scope and up. We absorb the cost of overruns.

Which blockchains do you build on?

We build on Ethereum, Solana, and major EVM and L2 networks including Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Chain choice is part of the discovery sprint.

Do you handle smart contract audits?

We write contracts audit-clean from day one and coordinate with external audit firms. AI audit tools catch only about forty percent of what a human audit finds, so independent human review is non-negotiable.

Why not just use AI to generate the code?

In 2026, ninety-two percent of AI-generated codebases ship with at least one critical vulnerability and forty-five percent of AI-written code contains security flaws. In a SaaS app a flaw is a bug. In a smart contract it can drain the entire treasury.

For founders who already chose the chain

Build on Solana. Six weeks. Mainnet. Fixed price.

Ten thousand active developers. Mobile Builder Grants. The Kalshi precedent. The consumer crypto narrative. If you have already picked the chain, the only remaining question is who ships.

8 min read·Updated April 2026

In March 2026 Solana crossed 10,000 unique all-time developers. The Solana Foundation launched the Solana Developer Platform (SDP), consolidating 20+ infrastructure providers into a single API surface for issuance, payments, and trading. Solana Mobile launched Builder Grants for mobile-native apps. Kalshi tokenized markets through Solana in December 2025. Walmart-backed OnePay added SOL with 3M MAU. KAST hit 100,000 Pengu card waitlist signups in 24 hours.

The 2026 Solana narrative is no longer "fast chain." It is consumer crypto, mobile-native, and institutional rails on a single performance-tier base layer. Founders who pick Solana in 2026 are picking distribution. The only remaining question is execution.

Three Solana-native MVP shapes founders ship in 2026

Consumer crypto

Mobile-first

Wallet UX, social flows, Solana Mobile + Saga integration. Embedded in an existing audience or content surface. KAST, Fitted, Backpack-shape products.

Prediction markets

CLOB on-chain

Order book matching, oracle resolution, vertical-specific markets. Kalshi tokenization on Solana set the precedent.

Payments rails

Stablecoin native

Solana Pay, USDC issuance, cross-border flows. Treasury operations, payroll, B2B settlement.

Why Solana wins for these specific shapes

The argument for Solana in 2026 is not abstract. It is shape-specific:

Sub-cent transaction cost. Consumer crypto needs unit economics to work. A user paying $0.50 in gas to mint a free NFT does not return. Solana's fee model lets you ship UX that web3 has been promising since 2017.
Sub-second confirmation. The order book in a prediction market or the swap in a payments app feels like web2 only when it confirms in <500ms. Solana defaults there.
Mobile-grade infrastructure. Solana Mobile is the only first-party mobile stack in web3. Wallet adapter, deep-linking, Saga hardware, all built for mobile-first founders.
Distribution surfaces. The Foundation is actively connecting builders to consumer surfaces (Walmart's OnePay, KAST card, ecosystem partner programs). Build access is part of the chain.
Institutional precedent. Kalshi tokenization, BlackRock's settlement experiments, Visa stablecoin pilots. Solana is the chain institutions are testing on, not just talking about.

What we ship for €39,000 in 6 weeks

The six-week tier is sized for a single Solana program plus the frontend that consumes it. Concretely:

One Anchor program with the core logic of your product (token, market, payment rail, etc.)
Frontend with wallet adapter integration and the user flows scoped on the call
SPL token if needed, or integration with an existing one
Oracle integration where required (Pyth or Switchboard)
Devnet deployment from day two, mainnet-beta on the day you say go
Full test coverage, integration tests, audit prep package
30-day post-launch support window

For multi-program builds, multi-chain (Solana plus EVM), or full mobile-native applications, we move to the eight-week (€79k) tier or quote a custom engagement.

What an individual hire costs vs us

Solo Rust dev

$2,500/mo

Uplers entry rate. Just the program. You manage frontend, deploy, audit, integration.

Toptal-class team

$120/hr+

Senior Rust + senior frontend + your time managing both. Hourly billing, no deadline guarantee.

137 fixed-price

€39,000

The whole product. Fixed price, fixed deadline, audit-ready. We absorb overruns.

When Solana is the wrong call

In the spirit of not pitching every founder onto the chain we like:

EVM-only integrations. If your product needs to compose with existing EVM DeFi (Uniswap, Aave, Compound, Curve), Solana wraps those poorly. Build on Ethereum or an L2.
Token launches with EVM-native distribution. If your token economics require Uniswap V4 hooks, Cowswap-style auctions, or specific EVM-only infrastructure, that is where you ship.
Permissioned RWA with ERC-3643. The compliance-token standard is EVM-native. Solana has equivalents but the ecosystem maturity is on Ethereum side for this specific use case.
Maximum decentralization narrative. If your founder story rests on Ethereum-grade decentralization, Solana's validator set is a positioning mismatch.

You picked Solana. The hard part is now execution. We have shipped this shape before.

A scoping call confirms which Solana shape fits, which programs to apply to alongside us, and exactly what we ship in six weeks.