Why Blocksense flies the pirate flag

Most web3 communities tell a story. Some build theirs around cosmic visions, others wrap themselves in metaphors of military discipline. At Blocksense, we didn’t set out to build an empire. We set out to give builders an alternative to one.

That’s why we fly the pirate flag.

We didn’t choose it because it’s edgy or contrarian (though we’re fine with that, matey). We chose it because it reflects how we see ourselves and the path we’re forging in the oracle landscape: nimble, permissionless, fiercely independent, and fundamentally subversive to the feudal norms of the dominant players in the space.

Let’s be honest. The current oracle market is not a free market. It’s a cartel. The biggest provider maintains dominance not just through technical capability but through closed-door partnerships, multi-million-dollar onboarding costs, and a gatekept model of feed creation where the needs of builders come last. Want to publish a novel feed? Good luck getting it approved. Want to integrate into a new chain? The setup fees alone will bury most new projects.

So, when our community had to decide what kind of energy we wanted to channel, there was only one answer that made sense. Not marines. Pirates!

The code of the underdog

Pirates in history weren’t just lawless adventurers; many were former sailors who rebelled against the very empires they once served. Buccaneers, for example, started out as outcasts and ended up becoming the shock troops of colonial power, eventually turning their makeshift fleets into tools of empire-building. It’s a complicated legacy, but the spirit is clear: outsiders becoming architects of the future.

We’re not building an oracle network to play by someone else’s rules. We’re building one to replace the rulebook entirely. The current system tells builders to wait, to negotiate, to pay. We say: write your own feed, deploy it, and ship your product. If you can describe it in code, it can go live. That’s the promise of our SDK for permissionless data feed creation.

Our community understands this. That’s why those “pirate vibes” aren’t just a meme. They’re a mission.

We’re not here to be polite

Pirates in the golden age weren’t chaotic for chaos’s sake. They ran surprisingly democratic ships, often electing their own captains and splitting the spoils equally. They weren’t loyal to any crown. They were loyal to each other. That resonates deeply with how we view decentralization — not as a buzzword, but as a commitment to shared ownership and the rejection of closed governance.

The same spirit drives our approach to oracle infrastructure. Our feeds are configurable down to the script. Our roadmap includes general-purpose compute and verifiable AI inference. We are building risk-aware price feeds, prediction market primitives, and vertical-specific data rails across stablecoins, LSTs, RWAs, and Bitcoin-native ecosystems.

And we’re doing it with ruthless efficiency. Our zkRollup design compresses thousands of feed updates into a single transaction, dropping gas costs by an order of magnitude and enabling fast, low-cost onboarding for new chains.

We don’t ask for millions to bring you online. We ask for a gas grant and a handshake. That’s it.

From memes to mainnet

Yes, we have fun. Our Discord and Telegram are filled with skull emojis, pirate ship gifs and our mascot Garrett, the Pirate Parrot. But behind the irreverence is a serious goal: to win. Not by copying the incumbents, but by moving faster, being more open, and relentlessly iterating alongside the builders who actually make this space exciting.

We're already deployed on 70+ chains like Aztec, Pharos, Aurora, Manta, Citrea, TAC and Plume. Not because we paid our way in, but because they saw what our model could unlock for them. And how fast we could deliver.

We're also not afraid to get our hands dirty. We run validator infrastructure, help protocols fine-tune peg-aware logic, and optimize scripts for long-tail assets with low liquidity. We’ve built this platform for the next 10,000 oracle feeds, not the next 10.

Steal the map. Burn the boats.

There’s a reason the pirate metaphor sticks. Because deep down, a lot of builders feel it. That frustration with bureaucracy. That itch to ship faster. That belief that the current king maybe doesn’t quite deserve the crown.

We’re here to help you turn that frustration into code.

If you want boardrooms and backchannels, there are plenty of ports to dock at. But if you’re building something weird, wild, and worth the risk — we’ve got room on board. Hoist your flag and join the crew!