Agreements that enforce themselves once the conditions are met

A smart contract is a small program stored on a blockchain. It holds a set of rules and, when the inputs it receives match those rules, it moves value or updates a record without anyone pressing a button. That is useful where several companies need to act on the same facts: a delivery was received, an inspection passed, an instalment was paid.

It is not a replacement for your legal agreement, and it cannot know what happens in the physical world on its own. Something has to tell it that the goods arrived. That something is called an oracle, and choosing it is the most important design decision in most projects. It might be a signed confirmation from a named inspector, a scan event from your warehouse system, or a bank notification.

We therefore start every engagement by separating what belongs on the ledger from what should stay in your existing systems. Contracts stay small on purpose. Less code means fewer places for a defect to hide and lower running cost. Personal data stays off the chain entirely, which also keeps the design compatible with the Personal Data Protection Law.

Because deployed contract code is difficult to change, the work front-loads quality. Every function gets unit tests. Business scenarios are replayed end to end, including the awkward ones: a party that never responds, a payment that arrives twice, a signer who loses their key. We also run property-based and fuzz tests that throw thousands of random inputs at the code to see what breaks.

After our own pass, an independent review is the next step, and we recommend it for any contract that will hold meaningful value. We prepare the threat model, the specification and the test evidence so an external auditor spends their time finding real issues instead of reverse engineering intent. Whether to commission a full third-party audit is your call, and we will tell you plainly when the value at risk justifies it.

Plan for 4 to 8 weeks for a single-purpose contract set, and longer for multi-party platforms with several roles. The audit itself adds its own calendar time, which depends on the auditor's queue.

Public networks give you open verification but expose transaction data and carry variable fees. Permissioned networks keep participants known and data private, and they suit most enterprise settings. A third option is an Ethereum-compatible private chain, which lets you reuse mature tooling while controlling who can join. We help you choose based on who the participants are, how sensitive the data is, and who must be able to audit.

Where the contract touches money or regulated assets, the surrounding process matters as much as the code. Payments flowing through a licensed bank or payment provider fall under the expectations of the Saudi Central Bank. Anything that records customer information needs a lawful basis under the Personal Data Protection Law, and hosting choices should respect the requirements of the National Cybersecurity Authority and in-Kingdom data rules where they apply to your sector.

We build to those requirements and document the decisions, but we do not claim regulatory approval on your behalf. Your compliance team and counsel sign off, and our documentation pack is written so they can do that quickly.