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📰 Research work

2025

Stablecoins are taking over nation-states?

Investment Thesis on Near Intents

We build perfect tool for government control

A deep dive into Zcash upcoming updates

Why GPUs are bad for inference

Web3 AI agent launchpad

Web3 AI agent frameworks

2024

Where does Ethereum fit in? With the launch of numerous L2s, L1s?

Many are unaware, but Polygon is the leader in prediction-market volume.

Increasing Rollup TPS to 100k and more.

Breaking Down the Bitcoin Ecosystem: An In-Depth Look at ETFs, Lightning, Layer 2s, Bridges

Ethereum Network Trends: A Dive into Security, Network Activity, Layer2s

Navigating the Solana Ecosystem: Key Trends, and Highlights

Crypto Predictions for 2024

How Do Blockchains Centralize Power?

Which Layer 2 Will Win?

Are Layer 2s Superior to Alt‑L1s for Scaling?

Uniswap, 1inch, and MetaMask: The Battle for Crypto User

Web3 Network Effects: Designing for Composability and Forkability

Left Curve: An Unconventional Yet Effective Investment Philosophy for Bull Markets

BlackRock’s BUIDL Ethereum Fund Draws $245 Million In a Week, What Next?

Brief Introduction to AVSS and Node Operators

Blast: Unlocking Native Yield and a New Business Model for DApps

Why We Don’t Need Privacy‑Focused Layer‑1 Blockchains

Prediction Markets

EigenLayer and LRTs: Explosive Growth Comparable to LSTs

Thoughts on Solana: De Facto Chain for Meme Coins

Is Tron the Go‑To Blockchain for Stablecoins?

Is the BSC Chain Facing a Downfall?

2023

4 Ways to Reduce ⛽️ Gas Fees Paid to the Ethereum Blockchain

Making Crypto Easy: Simple and Safe Wallets for Everyone.

We Need Crypto‑Native Stablecoins More Than Anything

Money: The First and Still the Most Important Application of the Blockchain

The blockchains have created a small number of dominant players across various categories.

Crypto-Product-Market-Fit

Why Decentralized Social Media Matters

2022

How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet 95% of the Time

Comparing the Top Smart Contract Platforms

A Solution to Significant World Problems?

6 Reasons Why Ethereum Protocol Updates Take Longer

The New Governments Emerging from Web3

How to Make Decentralized Apps (DApps) More User‑Friendly

Rocket Pool Can Make Ethereum Decentralized and Censorship‑Resistant

An Approach to Quantifying Decentralization of the Ethereum Network Over Time

Why Decentralization Matters

What Kind of Utility Do Fungible Tokens Have?

Printing Money

Comparing Blockchains

What to Build on Blockchain

5 Web3 Features Web2 Companies Can Use to 10x Products

👨‍💻 Work Experience

Investment Analyst at M31Capital - 1 Year, 4 months
Led investment thesis development and due diligence for multiple Web3/AI startups from pre-seed to Series A. Conducted deep technical and market analysis in multiple projects. Worked hands-on with portfolio founders as an operating partner, providing strategic guidance on product development and fundraising. Developed expertise in identifying emerging narratives early before they become obvious to the broader market.

Fitcentive: Co-founder/CTO - 6 months
Built a health and fitness iOS app from concept to launch, handling the entire technical infrastructure. Achieved 3,720+ downloads and 200+ paid users with a measurable 20-30% improvement in users' step count. Executed growth campaigns with 40+ UGC creators generating 10M+ views across social platforms. Learned the operational realities of building consumer products and balancing technical development with growth initiatives.

BuildBear Labs: DevRel - 1 Year, 2 months
Owned developer relations and growth. Built integrations with Hardhat and Scaffold-ETH, making BuildBear accessible to thousands of developers. Authored 50+ technical tutorials covering DeFi protocols (Aave, Uniswap), smart contract security, and Web3 development best practices. Open-source contributions gained hundreds of GitHub stars and forks across multiple repositories.

Appavengers: Web3 Developer - 4 months
Built production dApps including an NFT marketplace, decentralized exchange with AMM functionality, and yield farming platform. Developed and deployed Solidity smart contracts, integrated frontends with Web3.js/ethers.js. Gained practical full-stack Web3 development experience that became invaluable for later evaluating protocols as an investor.

Tiar: Infrastructure Researcher - 4 months
Conducted research on blockchain and developer infrastructure. Supported the development team with research work. Hosted Twitter Spaces to discuss findings with the crypto community and engage in technical debates about blockchain architecture.

🏗️ Side Projects

AI Agent Toolkit - 1 million lifetime visitors

Hardhat-BuildBear - 24+ stars, 18+ forks

Scaffold-Eth-2-BuildBear - 10+ stars, 61+ forks

Scaffold-Eth-BuildBear - 37+ stars, 119+ forks

📰 Technical Articles

Flash Loan | Aave v3

Guide to Building a Decentralized Exchange

Building a Decentralized NFT Marketplace

Create Rentable NFTs Using ERC-4907 Standard

Creating Token‑Bound Accounts (TBA) Using ERC‑6551

Guide to Building a Decentralized Lending Protocol

Generate an NFT with AI and Deploy the NFT Smart Contract

Building and Deploying a Voting Smart Contract on the Blockchain

Integer Downcasting Vulnerability: Demonstration and Effective Fix

Most Common Vulnerabilities In Solidity: In-Depth Part 1

Most Common Vulnerabilities In Solidity: In-Depth Part 2

Recreating the Kubz NFT Hack and Understanding What Went Wrong

Euler Finance’s 196‑Million Flash Loan Exploit

Spark Protocol: A Comprehensive Review

Testing and Simulating Timeswap

Flash Loan Arbitrage Bot

Mechanics of Aave V3

Create Liquidity Pools on Uniswap v3

🙌 People I Admire

Balaji, Elon, Steve Jobs, Naval, Peter Thiel, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, Richard Feynman, Lex, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller

📚 Books I Like

Procrastinate on Purpose, Freedom from the Known, The Beginning of Infinity, Zero to One, VC Mindset, Principles of Physics