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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, supporting EF EcoDev team as they interface with and support Ethereum-pilled enterprises and institutions.
This touches on an older dream 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of onboarding global commerce to Ethereum —it’s time.
Taking the lead of the EF Private Reads, we started with two ambitious ideas: let’s crash into reality with PIR and see how far we can take its practical performance, and let’s embed onion routing in the browser and in any context however constrained. In PIR I also found a home for my earlier obsession with the binary trie upgrade.
Since late 2025, I became convinced that the most transformative impactful thing to “invent” in the face of today’s bot- slop- and misinformation-addled world is a privacy-first messenger protocol that not only eliminates problems of the incumbents, but creates new experiences and communication modalities powered by zk[TLS]. I do some scribbling around this on the train.