Hiro Systems

Hiro Systems

Hiro Systems builds developer tools for Stacks, the network that enables apps and smart contracts for Bitcoin. Founded in 2017, Hiro empowers developers to build innovative Web3 applications on Bitcoin. The platform’s suite of tools unlocks the full potential of Bitcoin through smart contracts, digital assets, and decentralized applications. It supports over 350 million API requests monthly and serves thousands of users in the crypto space with their smart contract development products. Hiro is a core entity within the Stacks ecosystem, a collection of independent entities, developers and community members working to create a user-owned internet on Bitcoin.

ABOUT HIRO SYSTEMS

  • Hiro Systems empowers developers to create a better digital future with best-in-class tools and services.

  • The platform contributes to Stacks’ core infrastructure and open-source libraries and builds products like the Stacks Wallet and Stacks Explorer. 

  • The platform builds open-source developer tools and a hosted platform for smart contract development on Bitcoin

  • The platform is backed by notable investors like Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Naval Ravikant, Digital Currency Group and others.


KEY PLATFORMS

  • Hiro Platform

An all-in-one platform for building, testing, debugging, deploying, and scaling Stacks/Bitcoin dApps. Best for teams and developers seeking a managed, scalable environment without the hassle of local setups or infra management.

  • Clarinet

CLI for creating, testing, debugging, and deploying contracts to a local Stacks chain. It's a support for Clarity formatting, mainnet data simulation, sBTC handling, and evolving version upgrades.

  • Chainhooks

Builds reliable, reorg-resistant event-driven services for Bitcoin & Stacks. It allows custom predicates to watch blockchain events and trigger actions.

Provides robust indexing infrastructure for standards like BRC‑20 and Rune assets, integrated into Chainhook workflows

  • Stacks.js

It simplifies interaction with Stacks blockchain and smart contracts for authentication, transactions, identity wallets, storage, and signer flows. 

  • Ordinals Explorer

Query and explore Bitcoin inscription data programmatically—integrates with dApps needing to display or track NFTs.