Hiro provides a unified developer platform for building on Bitcoin layers such as Stacks, Lightning, Ordinals, and Runes. It offers high‑throughput, reorg‑aware APIs, declarative Chainhooks for instant event streaming, and on‑chain analytics with enterprise‑grade key management and observability tools, allowing developers to focus on application logic rather than blockchain infrastructure.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Developers building applications on Bitcoin layers such as Stacks, Lightning, Ordinals, and Runes face fragmented infrastructure, low API rate limits, and the complexity of handling blockchain reorganizations, which hampers reliable data access and real‑time event processing.
Solution
Hiro offers a unified developer platform that centralizes high‑throughput API access, event‑driven Chainhooks, and on‑chain analytics for Bitcoin’s multiple layers. The service provides enterprise‑grade API key management to eliminate rate‑limit constraints and delivers reorg‑aware data streams, ensuring applications receive accurate state updates. Chainhooks enable developers to define declarative event schemas that trigger external actions instantly, removing the need for custom indexing infrastructure. A single dashboard aggregates usage metrics, logs, and alerts, giving teams full observability over contract interactions and blockchain activity. By handling the underlying blockchain complexity, Hiro lets developers focus on building feature‑rich Bitcoin‑based Web3 products.
Target Audience
Primary users are developers and engineering teams building smart contracts, wallets, marketplaces, or DeFi applications on Bitcoin layers such as Stacks, Lightning, Ordinals, and Runes.
Features
- Unified API gateway delivering high‑throughput, low‑latency access to Stacks, Ordinals, BRC‑20, and Runes data
- Enterprise‑grade API key provisioning, rotation, and real‑time usage monitoring
- Hosted Chainhooks with configurable JSON schemas for instant, reorg‑aware event streaming to user endpoints
- Integrated client SDK for programmatic management of Chainhooks without running local binaries
- Deep on‑chain observability tools: live logs, historical analytics, and customizable alerts for contract activity
- Automated handling of Bitcoin and Stacks chain reorganizations across all data services
- Open‑source Chainhook engine (including Ordhook) for transparent indexing of ordinals and other Bitcoin assets