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An archive of whatever I was building, breaking or figuring out at the time, jailbreaks and all.
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2025
- The Custom Bonding Curve I Didn't Ship
How I built a continuous, piecewise-linear bonding curve that doubled in price every million tokens, before the protocol chose constant product instead.
Blockchain 15 Apr - Running a 14.8B Reasoning Model on One RTX 5090
A 29.55 GB reasoning model fit on one desktop GPU and generated at 52 tokens per second. Quantisation made it smaller and faster.
AI 8 Feb
2024
- When a Hosted Subgraph Became a DoS Vector
A browser-visible API key put a user-facing feature behind an allowance anyone could exhaust. Self-hosting fixed the immediate problem, but came with an uncomfortable trade-off.
Blockchain 20 Dec - Improving Transaction Confirmation Latency
Base was confirming transactions quickly, but the frontend could take another ten seconds to notice. Racing a backend signal against the wallet receipt closed the gap.
Blockchain 20 Sept - Evaluating UMA's Long Short Pair Contracts for Upside on Base
How UMA's Optimistic Oracle, Long Short Pair contracts and payout libraries mapped onto a KPI-token product on Base.
Blockchain 29 Aug - Building Eight Yield Strategies for Flashstake V3
Four Flashstake V3 strategies reached production and four more pushed the same interface into new territory. Each yield source brought a different accounting problem.
Blockchain 12 Feb
2023
- Sign-In with Ethereum When the Wallet Is a Gnosis Safe
How an EOA-only signature check failed for a Gnosis Safe and the on-chain fallback I used.
Blockchain 15 Aug - Creating a DeFiLlama TVL Adapter
How I replaced an aggregate API with historical on-chain balances and expanded the Flashstake adapter across three chains.
Blockchain 24 May - Exploring Scalability Solutions for Blockchain Networks: An Overview of Layer 1 and Layer 2
The current limitations of these networks are the scalability and performance challenges they face.
Blockchain 6 Jan
2022
- Getting started: Blockchain, Wallets, DeFi and Uniswap
If you’re new to the world of blockchain and decentralised finance (DeFi) you may be wondering how to get started.
Blockchain 23 Dec - Zero Knowledge Proofs in Decentralised Networks
Zero-knowledge proofs are an effective tool for improving the security and privacy of decentralised networks.
Blockchain 10 Dec - Blockchain Consensus Algorithms: PoW, PoS, PoA and Hybrids
A comparison of proof-of-work, proof-of-stake, proof-of-authority and hybrid approaches to blockchain consensus.
Blockchain 8 Dec
