If you want to change the world, don't protest. Write code.
Builder. Cypherpunk. Freedom tech maximalist (my Freedom Tech Manifesto). I write software that resists control by design, not by permission.
15+ years shipping production systems across payments, banking, blockchain, and cryptography. I build things that matter in adversarial conditions, where the code has to be right because the consequences of being wrong are real.
I wrote code in production manually for nearly 2 decades, now ready to embrace the new era and turning myself into an elite agentic wizard.
Currently Head of Ecosystem at StarkWare, building the open source community around Starknet. Worked for years in Ethereum core development, Bitcoin infrastructure, and financial systems.
Now exploring the intersection of zero-knowledge proofs and machine intelligence. The thesis: when AI goes physical, integrity becomes non-negotiable. Math is the only safety that scales.
Co-author and technical champion of EIP-1559, the fee market reform that fundamentally changed how Ethereum processes transactions.
My goal is to show the world that Starknet has the technological foundations to become the ultimate post-quantum scalable private computer layer of the world. The backbone of the Integrity Web.
Father of Kakarot and Madara. Grew both from zero to thriving open source projects with active contributor communities.
| Project | What it does |
|---|---|
| Kakarot | EVM interpreter written in Cairo, running on Starknet. Ethereum compatibility via ZK proofs. |
| Madara | Starknet sequencer built originally on Substrate. Modular, sovereign Starknet appchains. |
| Raito | Bitcoin ZK client written in Cairo. Verify Bitcoin consensus in a STARK proof. |
| Askeladd | Verifiable computation for Nostr Data Vending Machines via STARKs. |
| Cashu ZK Engine | Cashu Protocol ZK engine. Blind Diffie-Hellmann Key Exchange in Cairo. |
Building open source Rust implementations of frontier ML papers. Learning the architecture from the inside out by implementing it.
| Project | Paper / Architecture |
|---|---|
| jepa-rs | First Rust implementation of JEPA primitives (I-JEPA, V-JEPA, C-JEPA, VICReg, EMA) |
| jepa-notebooks | Interactive notebooks exploring JEPA architectures |
| attnres | Attention Residuals (Kimi/MoonshotAI). Softmax attention over all preceding layer outputs. |
| llm-provable-computer | Can LLMs be provable computers? Exploring verifiable AI inference. |
| mosaicmem | Geometry-aware spatial memory enabling consistent camera-controlled video generation over long rollouts. |
| turboquant | Rust implementation of Google's TurboQuant for research-grade vector quantization of LLM KV caches. |
| gpc_rs | Generative robot policies via predictive world modeling — diffusion policy + world model + evaluator, in Rust. |
| Project | What it does |
|---|---|
| bitcoin-mcp | Bitcoin & Lightning Network MCP Server |
| bitcoin-honeybadger | Bitcoin Honeybadger |
| nostringer-rs | Ring signatures (SAG, BLSAG) for Nostr, in Rust |
| nostr-mcp | Nostr MCP server for posting notes and interacting with the protocol |
Long-form thinking on freedom tech, verifiable computation, and where cryptography meets AI.
| Title | Topic |
|---|---|
| Math Is Humanity's Last Bastion Against Skynet | Why zero-knowledge proofs are the foundation for AI safety at scale |
| Can LLMs Be Provable Computers? | Verifiable AI inference via STARKs |
| Before Fighting Banks, Let's Understand How They Actually Work | A cypherpunk's guide to the financial system |
| Time to Take the Nostr Pill | Why Nostr matters for freedom of speech |
| Nostr DVMs Meet Verifiable Computation | STARKs powering trustless Nostr services |
| Cashu Meets STARKs | Zero-knowledge proofs for the Cashu ecash protocol |
Everything I build connects to one conviction: power asymmetries between individuals and systems should be broken by math, not balanced by policy. Bitcoin proved money can work without trusting banks. Ethereum proved computation can work without trusting servers. Zero-knowledge proofs will prove that AI did what it claimed, without trusting anyone.
The agentic era is coming. Billions of autonomous agents transacting at machine speed. Physical AI entering hospitals and highways. The trust infrastructure we have was built for a world with a handful of known actors. It will not survive contact with what's next.
We need integrity via math, not by the goodwill of men.