Case Study: Colony simplifies Ethereum infrastructure and focuses on product innovation with Infura

Colony - Customer Case Study

Colony is a platform for community collaboration, offering both a consumer app for incentivizing, rewarding, and tracking contributions and a developer platform for adding incentives and reputation to other products. As the team began building decentralized technology in 2017, they faced a major infrastructure challenge: deciding whether to build and run their own blockchain infrastructure or find a trusted partner that would not add friction for users.

By choosing Infura as their infrastructure provider, Colony simplified the technical burden of connecting to Ethereum, querying data, sending transactions, and deploying contracts. Infura helped reduce overhead and allowed the Colony team to focus on core product features like task creation, token issuance, reputation tracking, and reward distribution, while benefiting from reliable, battle-tested infrastructure.

Colony

Collin Vine

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer