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What is Mimic?

Mimic team

Mimic team

Jul 28, 20262 min read

TL;DR

Mimic is a programmable layer for onchain products. Define the logic, Mimic runs it, no smart contracts to write or babysit. $9B processed, 450M+ transactions, running inside Ledger, Trust Wallet, Safe, and Trezor since 2022.

The problem

Writing onchain logic was never the hard part. Keeping it running is. Every deployed contract drags along servers, RPCs, monitoring, and a slow trickle of protocol changes that break things quietly at 3am. Most engineering teams end up maintaining infrastructure that has nothing to do with the product they set out to build.

What Mimic does about it

Mimic splits logic from execution. Logic gets written offchain, in code engineers already use daily. Mimic Protocol compiles it deterministically, runs it trustlessly, and enforces it onchain through policies. Change a rule, no redeploy. No new audit every time the business logic shifts.

Wallets, AI agents, asset managers, and fintechs already run DCA, subscriptions, rebalancing, and fee collection on it, in production, today.

How Mimic works under the hood

Mimic Protocol runs on a decentralized network of three layers: execution, data, and coordination. Logic gets compiled deterministically and finalized with cryptographic guarantees, so what runs onchain matches exactly what was defined offchain, no surprises, no drift. A policy engine sits on top, deciding what's allowed to execute before anything touches a chain.

That's the part that used to eat a sprint: wiring monitoring, retry logic, RPC failovers, permissions. Mimic absorbs it, which tends to free up the kind of time better spent on the next feature than on keeping the last one alive.

Full breakdown at docs.mimic.fi.

Who it's for

Team working at a Mimic hackathon

Wallets, fintech products, asset managers, protocols, AI agents. Different shapes, similar pattern: teams that keep getting pulled back into the same maintenance loop instead of building the next thing.

It's rarely one big fire. It's the RPC that flakes at 2am, the retry logic nobody wants to touch, the small script that quietly needs a rewrite every time a protocol changes something upstream. None of it takes long on its own. All of it adds up to less time on the actual product.

Mimic exists for the teams who'd rather that time went somewhere else. Not because they're short on time in some abstract sense, because they've already lived the specific version of losing it.


You're not building alone

Behind Mimic is a squad that genuinely enjoys getting into the details. We build the product, use it, test it, and regularly find ourselves following an unusual edge case further than strictly necessary, simply because we want to understand it.

We stay close to the teams building with Mimic. Questions turn into conversations, tricky integrations sometimes become shared puzzles, and when a project needs us, we are usually not far away.

Our Discord is where much of that happens. A place to ask questions, share what you are working on, or compare notes with other builders using Mimic.

Come by, show us what you are building, and let's see where it can go.

Start building

Mimic is live on Arbitrum, Base, Base Sepolia, Ethereum, Gnosis, Optimism, and Sonic.

Explore the docs to start building, or bring your project to Discord and meet the squad behind Mimic.

Read the docs: docs.mimic.fi

Join the Discord: discord.mimic.fi