It was an ordinary Tuesday. The API was running, tests were passing, Docker came up on the first try. We were already imagining our first clients — B2B integrations, Telegram bots, deals.

Then someone on the team said: "What if we try to break everything first?"

Good idea. It almost always turns out things break faster than you expect.

What We Were Building

An analytical API for assessing Solana token risks. Not another contract scanner — there are dozens of those. We do behavioral analysis: who's behind the token, what's the history of that wallet, does the pattern resemble known manipulation schemes.