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Research, Architecture and Product Development

This knowledge base documents research, architecture, prototypes, and product development across:

  • Trading Systems
  • Financial Infrastructure
  • DeFi Protocol Engineering
  • Distributed Systems
  • AI Engineering

Current work is focused primarily on trading systems, DeFi protocol engineering, architecture, and product development.

Historical research includes blockchain infrastructure, bridges, consensus systems, zero knowledge systems, and cryptographic primitives.

The majority of this research was conducted by John Whitton.

Please see Product for work being done to productize this infrastructure.

Thanks to the thought leaders

John would like to thank

  • Circle: For their leadership in building a payment infrastructure and full stack platform for onchain and scaled financial systems.
  • FalconX: For its work as an institutional gateway to digital asset markets.
  • Propeller Heads: For their outstanding work on indexing, simulation and execution for Solvers as part of Tycho which lays the foundation for the Jincubator platform.
  • Uniswap: For their leading work on Uniswap V4 Hooks, CompactX and intent-based infrastructure.
  • 1inch: For their work on the Limit Order Protocol and support in Unite DeFi.
  • Atrium Academy: For their Uniswap V4 Hook Incubator and mentorship.
  • eco: Where I was fortunate enough to lead the engineering team and work on cross-L2 infrastructure and dedicated rollup architecture.
  • Aaron Li: For mentorship around cryptographic primitives, wallets, gaming and trustless infrastructure.
  • The Delendum Team: For their leadership in zero knowledge research.
  • Ganesha Upadhyaya: For pioneering work on trustless bridge infrastructure.
  • Rongjian Lan: For his work on protocol infrastructure and the knowledge he generously shared.

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ℹ️ Please note: Research is ongoing and some sections are placeholders or works in progress.