crypto

Favorite part about working as an engineer in crypto is the amount of constraints you have to deal with. Makes for a much more interesting design process that often leads to an innovation

Something I’ve noticed is the best work I’ve done is usually because of constraints.

Perhaps when it’s simple we don’t think deeply so the best ideas are outside reach

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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Agreed. What’s one example of this for you - an idea that was generated in a constrained environment?

zkTLS 

I wanted a lot of verifiable data so crypto can have more use cases.

Signed data requires cooperation, well let’s just use https

Most recently was a mechanism for off-chain order book pre-confs operating under the constraints of maintaining liveness and censorship resistance compared to a slow on chain order book. 

Exchanges obv love low latency, so my team and I compromised on a pre conf mechanism where final settlement is still secured by staked assets. Writing a paper on it soon