Investment Thesis
Systems engineering, Ethereum infrastructure, developer tooling. Key contributor to Ethereum Rust ecosystem.
What Excites Them
Developer tools that improve 10x, Rust in blockchain, open source infrastructure
What They Pass On
Poor developer experience, unnecessarily complex APIs
How to Pitch
Show clean systems design and demonstrate full-stack understanding.
Key Frameworks
Rollup Economics Model
Framework for evaluating rollup viability based on data availability costs, execution efficiency, and user value.
Developer Experience First
Winning infrastructure is determined by which tools developers choose to build with
Notable Writing
Why Paradigm invests in open source developer tools
Introducing Foundry and the case for Rust in Ethereum tooling
Optimistic rollups achieve scale by posting transaction data to L1 while executing off-chain.
Security-focused blockchain CTF challenges and their solutions.
Miner Extractable Value is an existential threat to Ethereum unless properly addressed.
Podcast Appearances
Key Quotes
“MEV is an existential threat to Ethereum unless properly addressed.”
— Paradigm Research
“The best infrastructure is the infrastructure developers actually want to use.”
— Bell Curve
Background
CTO at Paradigm. Creator of Foundry/ethers-rs. Deep systems programming background.