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The forge in the wilderness

Yggdrasil Digital

Founder — Yggdrasil Digital (engineering studio & holding)

Studio · R&D · 2018 — present · Toulouse

L0 / L1a from-scratch P2P stack — no forks, no SDKs
Overview

The studio and holding company under which the wilderness years were spent — work that looked, from outside, like wandering, but was a deliberate gathering of every capability a larger idea would need, each learned by doing the real job. Market-data and candle pipelines and an autonomous trading agent driven by more than a hundred indicators. A Stellar-funded cross-chain bridge giving Stellar↔EVM interoperability. A from-scratch L0/L1 P2P networking stack with no forks and no SDKs — Scintilla. Event-driven, microservice data-orchestration platforms built on Dagster and Redis job queues for horizontal scale, with team mentorship on infrastructure and CI/CD. Plus the advisory layer: tokenomics, architecture, whitepapers, SDKs and audits. None were failures — each shipped; each that ended, ended at the commercial last mile, never the build. Each left behind a brick, and a mastered craft.

What was built
  • Built market-data → OHLCV pipelines, real-time signal engines and an autonomous trading & portfolio agent driven by 100+ indicators.
  • Delivered a Stellar-funded cross-chain DEX + bridge enabling Stellar ↔ EVM asset interoperability.
  • Designed and built a from-scratch L0/L1 P2P networking stack and L2 apps — Scintilla.
  • Engineered event-driven, microservice data-orchestration systems (Dagster + Redis job queues) for horizontal scale, and mentored teams on infrastructure and CI/CD.
  • Led tokenomics, architecture and audits as a Web3 / ICO advisor; authored whitepapers and SDKs.