Everything between your code and the people using it.
Most teams stitch security together from half a dozen services. Darkside gives you one place to issue access, license your builds, and know what is happening to them in the wild.
Authentication & identity
Registration, login and session handling you drop into an existing app instead of rebuilding. Users, roles and permissions live in one dashboard.
Licensing & tokens
Generate, redeem, extend and revoke license keys through the API. Bind a key to a machine, a tier or a term, and cut it off the moment it is abused.
Anti-cheat & anti-piracy
Infinity watches for the details that are easy to miss — impossible health regeneration, impossible angles, tampered binaries — without weighing your game down.
Lightweight by design
A thin client and a fast API. Security should be something your users never notice, not a tax on frame times or start-up.
Visibility you can act on
Follow redemptions, sessions and blocked attempts as they happen, so a leaked build is something you catch rather than something you hear about.
Support that answers
Live chat, Discord and email reach the same small team that builds the products. No tiered queue between you and an answer.
Three products. One account.
Use one on its own or run them together — they share the same dashboard, the same billing and the same support channel.
OpenAuth
Available nowA scalable authentication and token licensing service that lets you focus on your code while keeping it out of unauthorized hands.
- License key issuing, redemption and revocation
- User accounts, sessions and role-based access
- API keys for your own tooling and storefront
- Dashboard for applications, users and keys
Infinity
In developmentVersatile anti-cheat and anti-piracy software with an implementation path measured in hours, not sprints.
- Detection for impossible states and inputs
- Build integrity and tamper checks
- Lightweight client, minimal overhead
- Straightforward integration for small teams
Synthesis
Coming soonCreative consulting and development services for teams who have built something good and now need the world to find it.
- SEO and technical site health
- Content and brand management
- Social presence and launch support
- Development help when you are short-handed
From sign-up to protected build in an afternoon.
Create your application
Register your product in the dashboard and get an API key. Nothing to host, nothing to provision.
Issue access
Generate license keys or user accounts, set tiers and expiry, and hand them to customers or your storefront.
Ship and watch
Verify on launch, revoke on abuse, and follow redemptions and blocked attempts from one screen.
Security is a right, not a privilege.
Developers deserve tools that protect their applications without a procurement cycle or an enterprise contract. Darkside has been building those tools since 2019 — for personal projects, production applications, ticketing systems and games alike.
Our team spans the world, and every product here is built by the same people who answer your questions. Read more about us or meet the team.
What that means in practice
- Entry tiers that are actually usable, not demos
- Documented APIs instead of locked-in SDKs
- Your users and your keys stay exportable
- Plain answers about what we do and do not detect
- Support from engineers, in the channel you already use
Small teams protecting things that matter.
Independent developers
You built the thing yourself and would rather not spend a month writing a licensing server. Start small, add protection as you grow.
Game studios
Keep matches fair and builds intact without shipping an intrusive client or hiring a dedicated anti-cheat team.
SaaS & tooling teams
Authentication, entitlements and seat management that scale with the account list instead of the headcount.
Frequently asked
Still stuck? The live chat in the corner reaches a person, and [email protected] reaches the same team.
What exactly does Darkside do?
We build the security layer around software you distribute: who is allowed to run it, on what terms, and whether the copy in the wild is the one you shipped.
Which products can I use today?
OpenAuth is live and in production use. Infinity is in active development and Synthesis opens for engagements soon — email us to get on the list for either.
Do I need to be a large company?
No. Most of what we build exists because solo developers and small studios could not justify enterprise licensing tools. Individual projects are welcome.
How do I get support?
Live chat on this site, our Discord, or [email protected]. All three reach the team that builds the products.
Are you hiring?
Often. If you want to learn the ways of our people, send your work to [email protected].
Ready to protect what you have built?
Create an account in minutes, or tell us what you are shipping and we will point you at the right piece of the platform.