Published Work
A collection of articles I've written for companies and publications over the years. Each piece is hosted here for posterity, with a link out to where it was originally published.
Pieces published in 2025
- Just write "if": Why Payy left Halo2 for Noir
Aztec
How Payy transformed their ZK ecosystem from one bottlenecked by a single developer to a system their entire team can modify and maintain.
Pieces published in 2024
- What is Avail?
Avail
Avail believes the blockchain community is unstoppable when we are unified. A complete overview of Avail's base layer for secure, scalable, and interoperable blockchains.
- Avail DA Mainnet Is Live: Infinite Blockchain Scalability
Avail
Avail DA launches on mainnet with KZG commitments and data availability sampling, providing abundant blobspace for infinitely scalable blockchains.
- How to Stake Avail: An Intro to Nominated Proof of Stake (NPoS)
Avail
When you stake AVAIL, you're securing the thousands of chains in the Avail ecosystem. A guide to staking options, rewards, slashing, and a step-by-step walkthrough.
- Avail's Vision: The unification layer for web3
Avail
A deep dive into the background and thesis behind Avail's Unification Layer, and how it addresses user fragmentation and scalability issues facing the ecosystem today.
- Data Availability: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
Avail
A complete guide to blockchain data availability explaining how it prevents fraud, enables verification, and why it's critical for rollup security.
Pieces published in 2023
- Light Clients (Part 3): Trust Issues? Avail light clients have you covered
Avail
The final installment in the light client series: how Avail's data availability light clients enhance scalability, streamline interoperability, and improve the blockchain developer experience.
- Light Clients (Part 2): How Avail light clients overcome the challenges of monolithic chains
Avail
Part two of the light client series explores Avail's innovative blockchain architecture and what makes Avail data availability light clients different from traditional ones.
- Light Clients (Part 1): How blockchain light clients work today
Avail
Part one of a three-part series demystifying blockchain architecture: how validators, full nodes, and light clients interact in traditional monolithic chains — and where the trust assumptions break down.
Pieces published in 2022
- Polygon ID x Polygon DAO Integration Launches to Create New ZK-based Governance Frameworks
Polygon
Launching the first iteration of Polygon ID — a private, self-sovereign identity solution powered by zero-knowledge cryptography — and integrating it with Polygon DAO to enable sybil-resistant, anonymous on-chain governance.
Pieces published in 2021
- Namer News: A social network built for Web 3.0
Namebase
Launching Namer News for the Handshake community: a social platform with passwordless Login with Handshake and native crypto link support.
Pieces published in 2020
- dLinks: This is not a product launch
Namebase
It's just the beginning of the next stage of the Internet.
- How to Build a Marketplace Without Code
LinkedIn
An introduction to marketplaces, why they're hard to start, and how no-code tools let founders focus on the business problems instead of the technical ones.