ETHCC Cannes, March 31 to April 5
Still one of the clearer places to watch where product, market structure, and ecosystem narratives are actually moving.
Log
Writing, reading, and doing
A selective trace of what I have been building, reading, and staying close to. Recent work shows up more because that is where the live movement is, but the line behind it starts earlier.
Signals
Vitalik on wallets and UX fragmentation
I keep returning to the gap between protocol elegance and what a real user actually experiences in the first five minutes.
Tokenized distribution under Swiss rules
A recurring thread for me is where structure, regulation, and product design start shaping each other instead of staying in separate conversations.
What survives after the room is gone
Hackathons, conferences, and builder rooms keep feeding the same question back to me. What survives after the room is gone?
Agent tooling inside real workflows
I am interested in AI once it leaves the demo stage and starts making actual work lighter, clearer, or faster without adding more noise.
Relaunched this site
Rebuilt the site so it reads more like me and less like a strategy deck.
Published practical-agent-systems
Turned private workflow ideas into a public proof repo with inspectable agent operations, browser queues, and evidence-grounded loops.
OpenGuild hackathon submission
Submitted ChopDot's new EVM smart-contract closeout proof flow for Polkadot Hub after shipping the March upgrade.
ChopDot: Polkadot Hub closeout proof with an EVM smart contract
Added a closeout flow for DOT and USDC pots where ChopDot computes settlement legs offchain, anchors the closeout snapshot on Polkadot Hub, and records settlement proof per leg.
DePIN Stress Test dashboard
Visual stress metrics for DePIN token models. Built to complement the tokenomics paper.
HSLU CAS Blockchain presentations
One of the stronger Swiss rooms for pressure-testing blockchain, tokenization, and legal-commercial ideas with people close to the work.
DePIN tokenomics: incentives vs. real retention
CAS Blockchain paper at HSLU. Used Onocoy as the case study.
Vitalik on the three transitions
A useful reminder that protocol progress and user reality rarely move at the same speed.
InsightJan 2026
What survives after the room is gone
Hackathons, conferences, and builder houses keep feeding the same question back to me. What actually survives once the event energy drops away?
ChopDot won second prize at Build Resilient Apps with Polkadot Cloud
ChopDot was conceived and built across Oct–Nov 2025 during the Polkadot Cloud hackathon, then finished second prize across all themes when results landed in December, with a $2,000 award that helped justify taking it further.
Build Resilient Apps with Polkadot Cloud
This is where ChopDot started. Six weeks of turning a familiar group-expense problem into a real Polkadot-native product and shipping it under judgment pressure.
Swiss DLT rules and tokenized distribution
The interesting part is where legal structure and product design stop being separate conversations.
Breaking DePIN, Zurich
Helpful because it kept token design, infrastructure reality, and sustainability in the same room.
Built zkWerewolf at ZK Hack Berlin
Built a werewolf game around zero-knowledge proof ideas, with individual player pages, moderator controls, role commitments, and a simple proof flow for demonstrating hidden information without revealing identities.
ZK Hack Berlin
A three-day in-person zero-knowledge hackathon at the tail end of Berlin Blockchain Week. Good room for moving from abstract privacy talk into something playable, inspectable, and fast enough to test with other people.
ZuBerlin
A week-long residency inside Berlin Blockchain Week that kept the conversation close to protocol architecture, cryptography, future society, and the human side of ambitious technical work.
Berlin Blockchain Week
Two dense weeks of self-organized events built around education, collaboration, and knowledge exchange. Useful less as a brand moment than as a city-wide way to see which ideas still hold up once they leave their own bubble.
Zuitzerland, Zurich
A month-long residency around Swiss governance, network societies, AI x crypto, future living, and public-goods experimentation. More society sandbox than builder meetup, and useful because it put product questions inside larger conversations about institutions, coordination, and how communities hold together.
PBA-X: Polkadot Blockchain Academy
One of the stronger Polkadot-native rooms for ecosystem strategy, network mechanics, and getting closer to how the stack actually works.
Automation was already the real thread
Long before the current model cycle, the useful work was the same: removing manual friction from onboarding, delivery, and operational decision-making.
Event2024
Web3x program
Before: circling. After: building.
MSc thesis on AI integration and adoption
The part that still feels current is not the 2017 tooling landscape. It is the argument that AI succeeds or fails on strategy, organizational fit, and whether people can actually use it well.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
I first read it in 2010. It is still worth returning to because so much later product confusion starts with forgetting how small and concrete the original proposition was.