https://danogurtsov.com Web3 researcher. Personal site with articles, book reviews and a travel log. en https://danogurtsov.com/article/building-dandelion https://danogurtsov.com/article/building-dandelion Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://danogurtsov.com/article/neuromancer https://danogurtsov.com/article/neuromancer Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The book that started cyberpunk. I went to the source through a beautifully produced YouTube audiobook - after replaying Cyberpunk 2077 one too many times. https://danogurtsov.com/article/defi-market-making-uniswap-v4-hooks https://danogurtsov.com/article/defi-market-making-uniswap-v4-hooks Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://danogurtsov.com/article/soul-of-malaya https://danogurtsov.com/article/soul-of-malaya Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Frenchman's 1930 memoir-novel of colonial Malaya, picked up after I fell for Malaysia in February. A quiet, atmospheric window into a world that has almost vanished in a hundred years. https://danogurtsov.com/article/debt-graeber https://danogurtsov.com/article/debt-graeber Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A sweeping anthropological history of debt - the book I picked to step back and look at money from a distance. Strong on history, and I read the modern chapters with a filter. https://danogurtsov.com/article/agentic-loops https://danogurtsov.com/article/agentic-loops Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://danogurtsov.com/article/how-to-be-swedish https://danogurtsov.com/article/how-to-be-swedish Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT A light and funny guide to Swedish culture, picked up at a bookstore in Gothenburg during my road trip across Sweden. https://danogurtsov.com/article/factfulness https://danogurtsov.com/article/factfulness Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hans Rosling's eye-opening book about why our instincts deceive us about global progress, and how to think more clearly. https://danogurtsov.com/article/cfa-level-1 https://danogurtsov.com/article/cfa-level-1 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://danogurtsov.com/article/india-south-north https://danogurtsov.com/article/india-south-north Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT A random book bought at Hyderabad airport in India, filled with a large number of tables and digits. https://danogurtsov.com/article/portugal-conquerors https://danogurtsov.com/article/portugal-conquerors Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT The first book I thoughtfully read about the history of Portugal, focusing on one of its most famous periods.