Research engineer and founder. 10+ yrs distributed systems, cryptography, blockchains — protocols, from-scratch implementations, products. Now deep on ML and biotech. Australia.
Ten things I’ve done.
- Synthetix — protocol engineer, Ethereum DeFi derivatives · ~$0.5B custodied.
- tBTC / Keep Network — protocol engineer, Bitcoin↔Ethereum bridge · 45 merged PRs.
- tinychain — Nakamoto blockchain from scratch · 9k LOC · 85★.
- Dappnet — censorship-resistant dApp frontends · $50K raised · 81★.
- Aus Buildooors — founded crypto-builder community · 350+ members · 2 cities.
- Mergeswap — ETHW→Ethereum storage-proof bridge · $100K volume.
- Artificial pancreas — built closed-loop insulin delivery · Hacker News front page.
- giza — first open-source ZK prover · reverse-engineered StarkNet.
- retrust — evidence-based subjective-logic trust · cited by EU.
- Goliath — Byzantine Google File System on Tendermint.
Engineering.
- Synthetix — protocol engineering · Ethereum DeFi perps · ~$0.5B custodied.
- Keep Network / tBTC — protocol engineering · BTC↔ETH bridge · 45 PRs.
- Conduit — EVM performance & scaling · rollup infrastructure.
- WiseTech Global — software engineer · ASX-listed logistics software.
- Vivant — UX designer.
- Veredictum — early blockchain · anti-piracy for film/video.
Founder & products.
- Dappnet — decentralized dApp frontends, IPFS + ENS · $50K · 81★.
- Mergeswap — ETHW→Ethereum storage-proof bridge · $100K volume.
- Curatem — prediction markets for content curation, w/ Ethereum Foundation.
Open source.
GitHub since 2011 · 400+ repos · 400+ followers.
- tinychain — tiniest Nakamoto blockchain · 9k LOC Go · 85★.
- quark-blockchain — horizontally-scalable blockchain, STARKs · 56★.
- eth-verifiable-rpc — verifiable Ethereum RPC, in-browser, no node · 44★.
- tendermint-rs — minimal Tendermint in Rust.
- pod-golang — Pod consensus layer in Go.
- awesome-solidity-patterns — curated Solidity patterns · 78★.
Papers.
- Byzantine Google File System on Tendermint (Goliath).
- Verifiable bandwidth sampling in P2P networks.
- Cryptoasset tracking intelligence via compression (Shannon, draft).
Writing.
- I’m a cyborg now — building my own artificial pancreas · HN front page.
- Recursive ZK proofs via memoization.
- Anatomy of a STARK proof.
- A deep dive into StarkNet and Cairo.
- Synthetix simulated-liquidity AMM.
- Google Bigtable as a networked B-tree.
- An open notebook — crypto, distsys, ML, programming, science.
Community & talks.
- Aus Buildooors — founder · 350+ members · Sydney + Brisbane · monthly since 2022.
- Fault-Tolerant Friends reading group — talks on Google File System and TikTok recsys.
Focus areas.
Distributed systems · consensus & BFT · cryptography · ZK proofs · MPC & FHE · P2P · blockchains & DeFi · ML · biotech & synthetic biology · mechanism design.
Education & languages.
- University of Technology Sydney — distributed systems & ML.
- Self-directed — MIT How To Grow (Almost) Anything · BioClub Tokyo · Triplebyte Certified Generalist.
- Languages — English (native), Dutch, French.
Contact.
· X · LinkedIn · liamzebedee.com
