Ethereum

Releasing ESPLR - a local ETH block explorer.

Big problem of ecosystem is reliance on 3rd party RPCs (infura, alchemy, quicknode). Also reliance on 3rd party explorers (etherscan). They track users: it makes system one big panopticon.

Local nodes can make the situation better!

PC with an archive node only costs $40/mo or $500 one-time. Esplr only needs RPC URL of an archive node. It can view transactions, account balances and token transfer history (unique feature). https://github.com/paulmillr/esplr

Security, austrian school. Developing noble cryptography: audited js libraries for web3. https://paulmillr.com/noble

Is it fair to say that etherscan tracks users? What makes Ethereum a Panopticon is the transparency of the chain data. Not the third-party applications that visualize that data. Or is there something that I’m missing?

Ethereum. L2s. DeFi. 

I like privacy and data security.

Yes it is fair to say that. They log all combinations "who accessed address" - "ip originated". They share this data on request

Oh, I had never even considered the data exposure of the people who are accessing on chain data. Wow. Sounds like what you’ve built helps strip away that layer of exposure

The actual chain data, of course, is a much diff problem to solve