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Hello 2025!
After the JMES World journey, the mission became bringing Scintilla to life — the pillar that ties the surrounding pieces of the stack back together.
Along the way I helped launch an RWA product that tokenizes advertising space instead of property. It turned out to be a surprisingly clean RWA case: ad inventory moves far more swiftly than a house, which made it a good proving ground — and I learned a lot about the economics of the ad process itself.
Continuing on that path, I was appointed Principal Engineer at Stealth. I'd helped them before — audited their first codebase and gave what advice I could — and they liked it enough to bring me in for what came next.
Each 2024 project surfaced the same thing: the cross-chain problem. Diving into the Curve / Chainlink ecosystem has been wonderful in that light.
What stood out at Stealth was the audit culture — more than a dozen contracts (liquidity pools, deposit/withdraw, lending/borrowing, ve-tokenomics, all in Solidity), reviewed by real audit firms, with a second audit and an open competition on the way. Audits are a kind of grail; very few of the launches I have been through could actually afford that scrutiny.
These hands-on projects sharpened Scintilla’s direction — the short-term needs and the long-term ones. Bridging from one chain to another (where node operators get paid, on the exchanges themselves); spinning up a DAO with its own governance token in a few steps; and, most importantly, the ability to create real-world assets protocol-wide. The goal stays the same: a protocol that can afford the legal process for RWA creation natively — because today every one of these companies burns a large slice of its raise on legal fees for the same opinion letter before earning a single euro of revenue.
Under that fee-only framing, the part that interests me most: I have been able to run a full cloud operating system from the browser, with volumes encrypted by your mnemonic — the Drive cluster of Scintilla. Functions live as files in Drive, but execution does not happen locally; it runs on other endpoints, marketplace-powered or on-call. With a relayer cluster where every node carries its own identity, layered circuit messaging becomes much easier, and federated learning plus distributed computation on top of that unlocks a great deal.
I started some of these directions when defeating the Turing test was out-of-mind, and it was the same with key rotation and with fees. How quickly people’s perception shifts makes me think it is only a matter of time.
Scintilla is the network the next ten years of work will need. 2024 is when the prototypes finally ran, fully integrated. Now we open it up.