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Early explorations and the founding Electisec

After participating in ETHWaterloo hackathon in 2019 (winner of UMA/0x and The Graph prizes), I started contributing independently to Ethereum ^{0, 1}   and DeFi ^{0, 1, 2}   before founding Electisec.

ZK Security

In 2022+ I have been focusing on the incredibly transformative zero-knowledge technology, founding the ZK auditing fellowship and creating the ZK-in-Context to onboard potential auditors who may otherwise have had no CS background (after realizing that some of the best auditors to have graduated from Electisec came from a non-STEM background). The ZK auditing arm of Electisec was incubated [1] [2] through our fellowship program with the help of a grant from the EF.

Snarkifying Ethereum

In 2023 general-compute in ZK was advancing at an incredible pace. ZK Rollups were in production, and the next prize became L1 zkEVM and the snarkification of Ethereum L1.

In 2024 I joined the EF with this snarkification efforts being a major motivation, working initially with the the zk[E]VM and Halo2 projects. With the realization that we can abstract away arithmetization from the EVM with a reasonable overhead, we pivoted to a GKR-Sumcheck- RISCV-based zkVM, with the ambitious goal of becoming the simplest yet most performant zk[E]VM for L1.

But another approach was taken: instead of enshringing a zkEVM now, let the many zkVM projects compete to be selected by L1 client teams to prove L1. This non-enshrined zkEVM approach is being vindicated in a big way.

Privacy on Ethereum

Privacy is now arguably the most urgent issue for Ethereum generally -now that the trillema of scale, security, and decentraliztion has been cracked with rollups/zk, the merge, and PeerDAS respectively.

Hardened yet ux-smooth privacy is the major bump to flatten –along with the abstraction of x-chain interop– as the boundaries between on-and off-chain is being steamrolled.

In 2025+ I became particularly interested in privacy solutions for the enterprise.
This touches on an older dream ^{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} of onboarding global commerce to Ethereum  —it’s time.

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