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Summer Sidequests and an MIT Rabbit Hole
Back from a summer of sidequests - and somehow working through an MIT course on blockchain and the design of financial systems for fun.
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Writing
Hackathon post-mortems, Ethereum internals, smart contract security notes, and the occasional reckoning with what isn't working.
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Reset, Readjust, Refocus
A Q1 reflection - recapping the wins, acknowledging the grind, and recognizing the course correction happening in real time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.