Come build on Aksum.
A sovereign Substrate chain means standard, battle-tested tooling — and a network with no owner means no one to ask permission. The venue, the settlement layer, and the cross-chain rails are open surface area for builders.
Open surface area
Trading systems & market making
Mitra is API-first: build bots, execution systems, and quoting engines against a real orderbook with on-chain settlement. Test them on Varuna today.
Wallets & integrations
Any Substrate wallet already speaks Aksum. Add native staking, governance, and transfer flows to your wallet or app with the standard polkadot-js API.
Indexers & data
Blocks, events, staking, and governance — build dashboards, analytics, and alerting on open chain data.
Cross-chain flows
Hyperbridge connects Aksum to Polkadot, Ethereum, and beyond — build deposit, withdrawal, and routing experiences without wrapped-asset custodians.
RWA & compliance tooling
Identity and allow-list hooks live in the runtime. Build issuance, eligibility, and reporting layers for tokenized assets.
Validator & infra tooling
Monitoring, key management, deployment automation — the validator community is growing through the testnet program.
Standard stack, no surprises
polkadot-js API
Connect with the standard Substrate toolchain — @polkadot/api against the public RPC. If you’ve built on any Substrate chain, you already know Aksum.
Developer console
Full chain interaction — extrinsics, chain state, RPC toolbox, runtime metadata — through the self-hosted developer console. Link coming with the next testnet update.
Explorer
Blocks, transactions, validators, governance — live chain data with a JSON API. Link coming with the next testnet update.
Three ways in today
Run a node on Adulis — the validator guide gets you from zero to the active set.
Trade the test venue on Varuna and build against the book.
Tell us what you're building — reach the team; early builders shape the API surface.