Writing & Talks

A running index of public work — talks, op-eds, and side projects — in reverse chronological order. Substantive posts live on the blog.

Coindesk op-ed: What the History of Linux Says About the Long Road to Decentralized Storage Adoption — read on CoinDesk.

Enterprise PMF for Filecoin — talk at Fildev Reykjavík on why Filecoin doesn’t yet have product-market fit, what would get it there, and how Banyan was attempting to make the network work. Video · Slides.
Trustless CDN Design — talk at the HTTP Gateways track of IPFS Thing in Brussels, on good design and game theory for a trustless CDN. Slides.
Side ZK work / barustenberg — implementation work with Lev Soukhanov on his “folding endgame” (repo) — modifying the Nova codebase so folded ZK circuit steps can pass verified information around without expensive lookup gates. Separately, a partial Rust rewrite of Barretenberg PLONK (barustenberg, with Waylon Jepsen).
P1nch — batched private DeFi swap built with Lev Stambler for the Zuzalu ZK hackathon. Tornado-cash-style but for swapping, somewhere between Penumbra and ZCash. Slides · Repo.