Work / 02 · Blockchain
Six years building protocols and institutional surfaces from the operator's seat. Two companies co-founded; one extended operator role across smart-wallet infrastructure; one venture under pitch; one autonomous-trading research project.
2025–present · Co-founder
Primary venture · Head of Institutional Ecosystem
Intent-based RFQ perpetuals on SEI. Voltrade launched May 2026. I run the institutional ecosystem — positioning, Tiger 21-style membership architecture, Chatham House lounge for the allocators moving the volume, the bizdev surface across solvers and venues.
2020–2025 · Community Lead → ECD → COO
Smart wallet architecture. Programmable accounts that hold and earn yield from underlying assets. Five years across the operator's seat, the world tour, and the executive office. The era I traveled US, Europe, and Asia representing the team at events.
Co-founder · programmable assets, consumer-facing
Programmable pack infrastructure. The consumer-facing product layer that came out of the Charged Particles smart-wallet thesis. Packs as the familiar entry point to programmable account assets.
2026 · under pitch · venture three
Purpose-built infrastructure for the case made in "The Retrofit Tax." In active pitch with Litecoin's venture arm, June 2026. The full thesis is published on the writing page.
2026 · Phase 0 paused · joint research
Autonomous LLM-orchestrated trader on Gryps RFQ perps. Joint P&L, dogfooding, and research IP. Phase 0 paused pending protocol-side alignment with the Gryps hedger; venue-agnostic adapter layer plus paper-cert on Hyperliquid built and verified.