Projects I've Worked On
A selection of significant projects across digital currency technology, high-performance systems, and generative AI.
Industry²
Building a locally hosted, open-source artificial intelligence system that learns from experience.
Impact: Open source and locally hosted: your data and the system's accumulated experience stay on your own infrastructure.
Radius Network
Building payment systems that can handle millions of transactions per second for the agentic economy.
Impact: Enabling AI agent-to-agent payments and compute resource marketplaces at unprecedented scale.
OpenCBDC
Co-author of the OpenCBDC transaction processor and primary author of the OpenCBDC Test Controller, the geo-replicated AWS benchmarking system behind the Hamilton whitepaper's evaluation.
Impact: Produced the throughput results (1.7 million transactions per second) that showed a central bank digital currency core can be built without a blockchain. Acknowledged in the whitepaper.
OpenCBDC PArSEC
Co-developed the PArSEC architecture (originally "3PC") that added generic smart-contract programmability and Ethereum Virtual Machine support to OpenCBDC, including the Geth-compatible JSON-RPC layer.
Impact: Showed that a centralized CBDC transaction processor can run unmodified Ethereum contracts with standard tooling and scale linearly: up to 118K ERC-20 transactions per second on 128 hosts.
PoolDetective
Critical security monitoring system for cryptocurrency mining pools across multiple networks.
Impact: First-of-its-kind monitoring preventing potential double-spending attacks and selfish mining.
Verthash Algorithm
Memory-intensive mining algorithm maintaining ASIC resistance for distributed ledger networks.
Impact: Successfully prevented specialized mining hardware, keeping mining accessible to consumer GPUs.
Reactor Hashrate Proxy
High-performance hashrate proxy system optimizing computational resource allocation at scale.
Impact: Successfully commercialized and sold to DMG Blockchain Solutions for enterprise deployment.
Vertcoin One-Click Miner
User-friendly mining software democratizing cryptocurrency mining for ordinary enthusiasts.
Impact: Made mining accessible to thousands of users who would have otherwise been shut out.
Discreet Log Contracts Demo
First demonstrable implementation of DLCs built in 6 weeks for MIT DCI.
Impact: Proved viability of oracle-based smart contracts for distributed ledger systems.