Control planes that never demand the plaintext.
Keys on the device. Operators who see a receipt, not a life. Encryption as the first line of the spec, not a coat of paint in week twelve.
Atlanta · Georgia · Est. 2021
Built for what should stay sealed.
Sycamore Strategies LLC is a start-up blockchain development studio. We design privacy and FinTech protocols — then we ship them. Our flagship is Arcanus Network.
The studio
Some software wants to be seen. Ours is built so the important parts never have to be.
Public ledgers are magnificent at proof and terrible at intimacy. Sycamore exists for the opposite problem: how a payment can be a receipt without becoming a biography, how a protocol can be honest about what it sees, how a person can move value and conversation without narrating themselves to a host.
We are not a bank. We do not rent you a personality. We write the quiet machinery between a wallet and a consequence. Privacy is the first constraint. FinTech is settlement, meters, and the discipline to keep those honest.
T. Colon and R. Colon formed the company in Atlanta in 2021 because that is where they already were — not a coastal costume. The name is a Georgia tree. Deep roots. Shade. A thing that lasts longer than a launch.
Founded2021
HomeAtlanta
FoundersT. & R. Colon
FlagshipArcanus
Flagship product · 2026
Arcanus Network
A privacy protocol on Arc Mainnet: encrypted tunnels, peer-to-peer voice, sealed mail, live messenger. Independent operators. Keys on the device. Sycamore still owns the company. Arcanus is the name on the door the user walks through.
Selected work
A portfolio of sealed rails.
Sixteen studio protocols and research engagements from 2021 to 2026 — the work that taught us how to ship Arcanus. Privacy first. Settlement second. Spectacle never.
Arcanus Network
The public protocol. VPN by the gigabyte, voice by the minute, sealed letters, live chat. Built in Atlanta, settled on Arc.
Read the flagship →
Piedmont Relay
Encrypted city paths and independent nodes. The sketch that became Arcanus VPN.
Case study →
Ledgerveil
Receipts you can audit. Biographies you cannot. Confidential settlement research.
Case study →
Midtown Vault
Letters that remain sealed for the host. Storage that stores a seal, not a body.
Case study →
Hearth Keys
Client-side keys, session sealing, the insistence that a receipt is not a confession.
Case study →
Full portfolio
Shade, Cinderlane, Pecan Rail, Oak Session, Decatur Dial, and the rest of the chest.
All work →
Georgia
Why Atlanta is the office.
A city that can be loud on the highway and private in the house. Protocols should work the same way: a public settlement layer, a private life on top of it.
Practice
What we actually build.
Settlement you can audit.
Prices you can read. No second company hiding in the checkout. Dollars and protocol tokens, not folklore.
The unglamorous middle.
A dashboard. A city list. A call that actually rings. Mail that will not open for the host. Quotes, sessions, the file you import.