Top Ten, Second in CTF, and the People You Meet Along the Way
My second Intellibus hackathon - finishing top ten, placing second in the CTF challenge, and realizing the value of showing up in the room.
Mar 17, 20264 min read
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Thoughts on blockchain security, smart contract auditing, tutorials, and building in web3.
What a Hackathon Taught Me About Protocol Architecture
Building Parametrix at the Chainlink Convergence hackathon - where protocol design decisions mattered more than code, CRE proved itself, and a broken dependency led to my first open source contribution.
Feb 22, 20269 min read
What Building a Blockchain Analyzer Taught Me About Ethereum Basics
How building a Rust CLI tool helped me internalize the first two chapters of Mastering Ethereum - accounts, transactions, gas, and blocks.
Jan 25, 20267 min read
Learning to Learn: My Blockchain Education Journey
From Twitter noise and scattered whitepapers to structured learning - how I finally figured out how to actually learn blockchain development.
Jan 8, 20266 min read
From Miami Car Shows to Smart Contract Audits
How a tip for a photo, some NFT burns, and a collapsed exchange led me down the rabbit hole of blockchain security.
Dec 15, 20255 min read
Hello World: Building in Public
Welcome to my blog! Here I'll share thoughts on blockchain security, smart contract auditing, and my journey building in the web3 space.
Dec 13, 20252 min read