nikolai mushegian’s website
Using game theory and cryptography, we can make peer-to-peer protocols which act as corruption-resistant alternatives to financial institutions.
Current Projects
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fir - concatenative binary IR; metered VM with first-class virtualization; zero-overhead nested rollups
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rico - fork of dai with original design for rate controller and reference price calculator
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dmap - ultraminimalist take on immutable registries, no root keys or backdoors for your software supply chain
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dpack - EVM address+artifact lockfile spec and tool, use with dmap to de-root your defi dapp
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feedbase - bust open EVM oracle network silos by making composability a competitive factor
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manaflow - smart contract VM with parallel validation of a stateful and composable programming model, an alternative to sharding
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minicash - big-block UTXO coin with fraud proofs and tiny spec, POC for manaflow scaling
Past Projects
“Past” means I no longer meaningfully contribute. Some are still active, some are not.
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(2020-2021) rai - fork of dai with a simple rate controller and emphasis on un-governance
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(2018-2019) balancer - N-dimensional constant-product automated market maker
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(2015-2018) makerdao/dai - collateralized stablecoin system
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(2015-2017) dappsys - early EVM building blocks
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(2014-2015) bitshares - pre-ethereum defi, first on-chain collateralized stablecoins
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(2010-2014) school at CMU - kernel and compiler
Inspiration