Writing: DeFi
Why I'm Bullish on 2026
November 15, 2025
AI agents, stablecoins, tokenized venues, wallet signing, and DeFi primitives each reached production in 2025, and 2026 is when I expect them to meet in the same products.
Intent-Based Multichain DeFi
October 15, 2025
Solver networks, ERC-7683, and production intent protocols across EVM, Solana, and Cosmos.
Stablecoin Summer
October 15, 2025
The GENIUS Act and growing Treasury-backed reserves are turning stablecoins from a trading bridge into payment and settlement rails that products can build on.
Agentic Finance
September 30, 2025
AP2, x402, and OpenAI's agentic commerce work let AI agents hold mandates and settle in stablecoins, which moves them from giving financial advice to executing it.
Web3 Composability
September 8, 2025
The token, launch, liquidity, governance, and DeFi standards a new Web3 project can build on, and the systemic risk that comes with sharing them.
EVM Token Standards Overview
May 15, 2025
What ERC-20, ERC-1155, ERC-6909, and ERC-7281 each define, where each one fits, and how they compare on batching, approvals, and gas.
Managing Risks in DeFi
May 14, 2025
The technical, economic, systemic, and operational risks in DeFi, the incidents that exposed each one, and the checks and tools I use before trusting a protocol.
AMMs, Liquidity Pools & Yield Farming
May 12, 2025
How automated market makers price trades from liquidity pools, what liquidity providers earn and risk, and yield farming strategies on Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, and zkSync.
Trading Engines - Order Books & AMMs
May 10, 2025
How order books and AMMs match trades, which projects run each model and hybrids of both, and when I would pick one over the other.
How USDT0 Improves Stablecoin Bridging
March 20, 2025
How USDT0 and LayerZero's OFT standard move USDT across chains without wrapping, with unified liquidity and a smaller bridge attack surface.
EVM on Bitcoin - The Future of DeFi
March 17, 2025
The Layer 2s, sidechains, and token standards bringing programmability to Bitcoin, and what EVM compatibility through projects like SovaEVM adds for Solidity developers.
The Power of Bitcoin Runes
March 2, 2025
How Bitcoin Runes tracks tokens in Bitcoin's UTXO model instead of inscriptions, and the applications being built on it a year after launch.
Math in JavaScript and DeFi
January 19, 2025
Floating-point quirks, precision, and BigInt choices I use when JavaScript math has to hold up in DeFi contracts and onchain apps.
Modern Next.js Web3 Architecture
October 1, 2024
URL state, collocation, React Query, wagmi, and viem in Next.js Web3 apps.