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Trying My Hand at Open Source: Building Dandelion, an On-Chain Research Tool — For years, one thing about on-chain analysis quietly annoyed me: you have an address, but no idea what it actually is or which contracts belong together. I finally built a small tool to fix that for myself, and put it out as open source.
Diving into the Fundamentals of DeFi Market Making, and Poking at Uniswap v4 Hooks Along the Way — I led ~500 audits, and almost none of the clients used Uniswap v4 hooks. That nagging fact pulled me into market making, and then into building two hooks of my own. They quickly stopped being code and became research - here is what I measured, including where my own confident guesses turned out to be wrong.
The Zoo of AI Agent Loops — A deep dive into agent architectures, their unsolved problems, what works, what doesn't, and how we measure any of it. Based on research across 35 sources, from Anthropic and Google to independent engineers building real systems.
How I Passed CFA Level I - And Why It Was Worth It — I passed the CFA Level I exam back in 2018. Even though my CFA journey after Level I did not go exactly as planned, I have zero regrets about starting it.