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About
Hiro provides an agentic security team for companies, covering SOC 2, ISO 27001, customer security questionnaires, access reviews, audit evidence, alert response, and cloud hardening. It serves companies from their first enterprise deal through subsequent audits, differentiating itself from legacy security MSPs by having agents perform the work with on-call security engineers reviewing risky actions before they ship.
Market
Hiro competes in the startup-focused application, cloud, and infrastructure security market, with an adjacent position in security-compliance and customer-questionnaire automation. It differentiates by presenting an agentic “first security hire” that connects code and infrastructure scanning, remediation, customer security answers, and SOC 2 evidence in one workflow, rather than relying on separate application-security or questionnaire tools.
Hiro targets startups—especially companies pursuing SOC 2 and closing their first significant customer deals—rather than mature organizations with large dedicated security teams. Its likely buyer is the founder or engineering/operations lead acting as the first security owner and needing security fixes, reviews, and compliance evidence without hiring a full security team.
At a Glance
Problem
Building applications on Bitcoin layers is technically expensive and operationally fragile. Developers need to index and clean chain data, manage RPC capacity, handle caching and autoscaling, monitor application activity, and reconcile Bitcoin or Stacks reorganizations. Without this infrastructure, teams can spend weeks building backend systems before delivering core product features; with it, they risk rate limits, latency, downtime, and incorrect application state.
The clearest use case is a Bitcoin or Stacks application that must react to onchain events in real time—for example, updating a database after a token transfer, contract call, or transaction. Hiro removes the need for every application team to build its own reorg-aware indexer and event-processing pipeline, turning difficult blockchain data operations into a managed developer-infrastructure problem.
Product / Service
Hiro provides developer tools and hosted infrastructure for Bitcoin layers, centered on the Hiro Platform. Its Stacks Blockchain API supplies indexed, cleaned, cached, and query-optimized chain data through REST, WebSocket, and Socket.io interfaces; developers can retrieve transactions and account data, call smart contracts, and broadcast user transactions without operating their own node infrastructure.
The platform also provides API-key management, usage and latency monitoring, onchain analytics, and hosted Chainhooks. Developers define event predicates through an API, SDK, or declarative JSON configuration, and Hiro streams matching events to their systems while handling Bitcoin and Stacks reorganizations. The delivery model combines open-source developer tooling with a hosted service: a free tier is available, while paid Platform plans start at $99 per month and rise to $599 per month for higher-scale usage.
Market
Hiro competes in blockchain developer infrastructure, specifically the Bitcoin-layer and Stacks ecosystem, where its specialization differentiates it from broader Web3 infrastructure providers. Adjacent alternatives include QuickNode, Venly, and Kaleido in blockchain-as-a-service, while Alchemy represents a broader API, SDK, and scaling platform substitute. Hiro is also a core entity in the Stacks ecosystem and operates as an open-source public-benefit corporation rather than as a conventional closed SaaS vendor.
The company has meaningful product and ecosystem traction, although the reviewed materials do not disclose revenue or customer-count figures. Hiro says Chainhooks became popular among Stacks builders and that a significant number of accelerator companies used its tools; by early 2026, Chainhooks v2 was generally available after a re-architecture aimed at higher demand and reliability. The surrounding market is growing: Stacks reported roughly 400,000 wallets, about 20,000 daily transactions in 2025 with a roughly 20% increase in Q1 2026, and a #5 ranking for developer-ecosystem growth. Public pricing shows commercialization, but the evidence is insufficient to characterize Hiro as either revenue-scale or definitively pre-revenue.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator
Recent News
Hiro announced that Chainhooks v2 had exited beta and was generally available. The release introduced improved performance, reliability, filtering, documentation, error messages, and usage metrics, while hosted Chainhooks v1 was scheduled for shutdown on March 9, 2026.
Hiro announced the deprecation of its Ordinals, BRC-20, Runes, and Bitcoin Indexer tooling as it refocused on Stacks infrastructure. Hiro worked with Xverse to provide a migration path for developers using those APIs.
As part of its August 2025 product roundup, Hiro announced that ReOwn would be natively integrated into Stacks Connect, making it easier for Web3 applications and wallets to onboard Stacks.
Hiro’s August release roundup highlighted custom Proof-of-Transfer boot contracts in Clarinet, a redesigned Stacks Explorer in devnet, smaller and more reliable Blockchain API payloads, and the Store and Push integration. It also previewed the Chainhooks 2.0 alpha and noted that ReOwn, formerly WalletConnect, would be natively integrated into Stacks Connect.
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Hiro monetizes through a month-to-month subscription: its Standard plan costs $500 per month, while Enterprise engagements are custom. The company also offers a 14-day free trial.