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Writing on crypto, cryptography, distributed systems, and whatever else is on my mind.

  • 6 min readKai Aldag

    Cheap Parallel EVM Simulation for Searchers

    Three Rust crates that give MEV searchers a small runtime — a forked-EVM state cache, reactive oracle adapters, and AMM state — to run thousands of parallel liquidation simulations against real protocol bytecode without RPC round-trips.

  • 12 min readKai Aldag

    Systematic ETH Tail-Risk Trading on Polymarket

    A trading system that prices ETH strike markets on Polymarket against a Binance-derived move distribution, sizes exposure to an ETH risk budget, and runs the full discovery-to-settlement loop.

  • 10 min readKai Aldag

    Single Sign: One Visible Signature, Many Verifiable Digests

    Aggregate many signature requests into one visible message the user signs once, then use RISC Zero proofs to show any individual EIP-712/191 digest came from that signed data — ERC-1271-compatible, so protocols validate digests with no extra popups.

  • 10 min readKai Aldag

    Verifiable NFT Composition from IPFS Token URIs

    A RISC Zero zkVM app that proves an NFT's off-chain IPFS metadata matches its on-chain tokenURI, then composes verified NFTs into new ones — our Best ZKVM Application winner at ZKHack Montreal.