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PETs4DeFi — Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for DeFi
Co-led a €3.5M European Innovation Council program (~1% acceptance) that built the ZK toolkit, zk-KYC, and compliance-by-design stack letting DeFi hold privacy and regulation in the same hand.
Hardware Optimisations for Crypto High-Frequency Trading and ZKPs Part I
CPUs vs GPUs vs FPGAs — and why FPGA is the right substrate for low-latency MEV strategies and ZK proof acceleration.
Achieving superior blockchain security with SGX and ZK proofs
Fatal SGX vulnerabilities and how multi-prover systems — combining SGX with ZK proofs and FHE — harden rollups.
Verkle Trees: Everything You Need To Know
How Verkle trees collapse Merkle proof sizes by ~7× — and where they sit in Vitalik's Ethereum end game.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Full Guide, Part IV
From Zero to Knowledge: modular arithmetic — the engine room behind ZKP soundness and efficiency.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Full Guide, Part III
From Zero to Knowledge: proof systems — NP, IP, PCP, IOP and how zk-SNARKs / zk-STARKs descend from them.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Full Guide, Part II
From Zero to Knowledge: polynomials — how they encode data, relations, and enable efficient comparison in ZKPs.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Full Guide, Part I
Scalability vs. privacy on public chains — and why zk-SNARKs are the cryptographic bridge between them.
Neural Networks: Back to Basics, Part I
From a one-weight pricing model to gradient descent — the cleanest path I know into the fundamentals.
AI Expert Retro Talk Part III: LLMs and chatGPT
How transformer LLMs actually work, why scale stops mattering, and what InstructGPT changed about steerability.
AI Expert Retro Talk Part V: Attention is All You Need
A deep dive into attention — from seq2seq's blind spots to self-attention, transformers, and what came next.