Searce Delivers Flawless Cloud Integration for a Blockchain Innovator, Flare – in a Record Four Weeks
Challenges
Flare is an EVM smart contract platform and universal layer for blockchain ecosystems, specifically designed to support data-intensive use cases, including machine learning and real-world assets. Providing new models of trustless bridging for smart/non-smart contract tokens, Flare acts as a compute layer between networks to enable complex financial interactions. Their API Portal provides developers with fast & secure API access to a wide variety of blockchain ecosystems, including Flare, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Cosmos hub.
Flare sought to make its APIs available on the Google Cloud Marketplace to broaden access to the developer community, thereby lowering barriers to entry for active development on all chains.
- Integration complexity: One of its key offerings is the API portal that provides APIs to connect different blockchain networks, as well as infrastructure to support developers in building decentralized applications with Web3 smart contract capabilities. To facilitate easier access to the developer community, they needed to integrate these APIs into Google Cloud Marketplace. The integration would require niche expertise to execute properly.
- Need for a faster GTM: To maintain a competitive edge, there was a need to go to market before anyone else. The challenge was to achieve integration faster than internal capabilities allowed, and upskilling the in-house team would have meant a delay in time-to-market.
- Maintaining product focus: As an innovative startup, Flare Network aimed to stay focused on enhancing its core product offerings rather than focusing on upskilling its team for a niche integration project.
The Solution
As an innovative startup, Flare Network aimed to stay focused on enhancing its core product offerings rather than focusing on upskilling its team for a niche integration project.
- Accelerated Development: Our efficient project management and development capabilities halved the integration timeline, enabling Flare Network to launch in just four weeks without any bugs.
- Strategic Partnership with Searce: Our cloud integrations experts enabled Flare Network to successfully onboard their APIs on the Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Continuous Support: We have been engaged to provide ongoing support for phase two of marketplace integration, helping Flare Network plan further innovations and integrations to benefit the developer community.
Business Impact
Our in-house expertise and close working relationship with Google Cloud significantly benefited Flare Network in the following ways:
- First-ever Web3 APIs integrated into Google Cloud Marketplace
- 50 developers signed up through the marketplace integration in the crucial early adoption stage
- Searce delivered in 4 weeks, what would have taken Flare Network 2+ months to take to market
- Flare Network was able to stay focused on its core competencies rather than trying to build specialized talent
By partnering with Searce, Flare Network was able to tackle a complex integration challenge and pave the path for phase two of its marketplace integration plan.
“The APIs that we integrated were the world’s first Web3 APIs integrated into Google Cloud Marketplace. So it was huge news. Flare loved it. Our community loved it. Google loved it. It made a lot of noise. Searce had a quick turnaround on the integration for us. It went exactly as planned. The project management was on point. We’re excited for our continued collaboration with Searce.”
– Joshua Edwards, VP of Engineering / Founding team at Flare Network