This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Asjad Ahmed Khan
If you’ve ever built a dApp, you’ve probably hit a moment where everything is ready—your smart contracts are deployed, your wallet integrations are set up, your UI looks clean—and then there is a pause.
Now comes the challenge of interacting with the smart contract via your frontend.
Where’s your API layer? Do we need to code the entire logic and write the scripts for generating endpoints?
That’s the moment Kalp Studio’s API Gateway was designed for: to give developers clean, RESTful endpoints to connect your frontend to the blockchain.
In this post, we’ll break down what Kalp’s API Gateway actually is, why it matters, and how it can change the way you think about building Web3 apps—from MVP to production.
What’s Changed in Web3 Backend Development?
Looking at the trends in this market, a large part of Web3 developers are trying to ship a product—something real people can use that solves a real-world problem.
But the way we’ve been doing things in Web3 still reflects early ecosystem assumptions:
- You’re expected to run or connect to an RPC node
- You write complex contract interaction logic manually
- You manage ABI decoding, event logs, gas optimisation, and more
- You often rebuild APIs from scratch every time you change the contract
That’s not how things should work in 2025. We’ve grown and adapted to this smart era. And just like modern frontend frameworks abstract away browser quirks, Kalp Studio’s API Gateway abstracts away chain complexity.
What Is Kalp Studio’s API Gateway?
At its core, the API Gateway is a module inside Kalp Studio Console that lets developers create secure, production-ready API endpoints from their deployed smart contracts—without writing or hosting any backend code.
Key Features:
- Auto-generated endpoints based on your contract ABI
- Support for read and write operations (including multi-call batching)
- Customizable headers and auth for production apps
- Supports Kalp DLT, Ethereum, Polygon, and more
In short, it gives you the tools to treat blockchain contracts like microservices, so you can build like you would in any modern SaaS app.
Why It Matters (Especially for Developers and Startups)
Let’s look at what this unlocks when building dApps:
- No need to manage blockchain nodes
- Faster frontend development—just call an endpoint
- Cleaner security and auth workflows
- Scalable performance—production-ready without DevOps overhead
- Easier collaboration—PMs or frontend devs can use the APIs without Solidity knowledge
You no longer need to create a separate backend team just to expose contract methods or listen for events. The Gateway handles it.
Real-World Use Case: The Embedded Wallet + Gateway Flow
Let’s say you’re building a rewards app for a Web3 community. Here’s how you might use Kalp’s tools:
- Use the KS Embedded Wallet to onboard new users without seed phrases
- Create a simple KRC-20 on KALP DLT or ERC token on Ethereum using Kalp Instant Deployer
- Use the API Gateway to create endpoints like:
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/balanceOf -
/transfer -
/claimReward
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- Build your frontend in React or Next.js and integrate those endpoints directly
Now your dApp is up and running—no RPCs, no backend APIs, no constant ABI parsing.
It feels like building a modern SaaS product, not wrestling with Solidity.
How Developers are Benefited?
Kalp Studio’s API Gateway is a scalable foundation. Teams using it can:
- Push to production faster with fewer moving parts
- Reduce bugs and regression issues from mismatched contract logic
- Build with real UX patterns (e.g., polling, optimistic updates, fallback flows)
- Evolve the backend independently from the smart contracts
This kind of separation of concerns is rare in blockchain, and Kalp is doing it right.
Kalp Studio’s API Gateway turns smart contracts into real APIs—so your dApp feels like a product, not a prototype.
What’s Next?
Next up in this series:
We’ll walk you through how to generate endpoints for your deployed contracts step-by-step, so you can stop writing backend code and start building features that matter.
Stay tuned.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Asjad Ahmed Khan