Now
What I’m focused on right now — a /now page, not a log of everything.
Current focus §
- Open Privacy Suite — most of my time goes here: an open privacy layer for public and private EVM networks. Identity-aware policy, selective disclosure, audit evidence — over standard JSON-RPC, with no vendor lock-in.
- Gateway.fm — product, engineering, and protocol architecture for institutions moving finance onchain. The current thesis: buyers need one operated outcome, not five vendors.
- Building with AI agents — as a core part of how I work: orchestrated, verified against source-of-truth, gated behind production rigor.
Open questions §
Questions I am actively holding. A smart person disagreeing usefully with any of them is exactly what I want — write me.
- Can an infrastructure operator serve and verify activity without seeing it — without new trust ceremonies or heavy cryptography on the critical path? Working it out in Privacy from operators.
- What does a regulator or auditor actually need to see — and prove — about private onchain activity?
- How many of an RFP’s five or six vendor layers can one counterparty responsibly absorb?
- A lot of our notes are not ours. They live in apps that hold the writing. What would it take for the content to be first-party — local, fast, still there if the app disappears?
Recent §
- Privacy from operators WIP — who counts as an operator, and what privacy from them means. Note, Sep 1, 2026
- Stateful vs stateless ZK proving — the witness thread, from 2020 research to the January 2024 implementation. Published Aug 22, 2026; updated Sep 5, 2026.
- Private doors and interoperable roads — note, Aug 18, 2026
- Privacy, Ethereum, and the Future of On-Chain Finance — The Privacy Podcast, Aug 13, 2026
- Practical Approaches to Interoperable Blockchain Privacy — LF Decentralized Trust workshop, Mar 18, 2026
New writing lands in RSS first.