major changelogs

  • dec 20; joined sphere, left immediately — was a lot of using current skills vs learning new things
  • new year, spending almost all my time on solana, building small things and learning 24/7
  • jan 15, made and started executing on a plan to learn and build on solana
  • feb 26, started building rift, a creator platform on solana
  • 17 april - shipped rift - a lot of distractions as i was trading unnecessarily, but that sort of helped me understand a bit about defi
  • may: started working on dripcraft.xy.xyz
  • learned a bunch about cnfts, minting burning them, landing txns on solana, querying das api amd keypairs, umi, metaplex etc
  • jun 3 shipped dripcraft v1
  • jul 3 shipped dripcraft v2 with a much more optimized burning mechanism
  • jun-mid to july end - contracted at wildcard doing crypto infra - didnt like it + was busy with moving countries so just quit
  • aug 10 went to mtndao in the us and met a lot of core engineers and now starting study on svm and contract optimization while building dripcraft v3
  • sept 14 finished dripcraft v3, will not be taking up any client work for min. next 2-3 months focusing on solana program dev and optimization
    • this took a bit longer because of procrastination, adjusting to college life etc
  • oct 9: learning rust and might start working at perena helping with solana core dev ( hard hard hard work )
  • oct 16: doing some data work for perena building dune charts for solana liquidity pools to figure out how stablecoins are moving on the chain, way harder than i thought, using dune sucks ass but such a useful tool; mostly a skill issue from my side
  • oct 24: lol i just went and started working with ben at the office without really doing any interview
  • nov 13: oh insane lock in happened, we launched perena v1; i built majority of the infra and integration parts along with zayyan
  • dec 5: holy fuck, 30M in our pools and almost a billion dollars of volume through swaps
  • dec 20: everyone left the team 💀im the only engineer on the team ( volume hit $3B btw )
  • jan 19: helped get the pools back from the lawsuit, fixed a bunch of issues with fees not going out on prod contracts, shipped new points mechanism, SCARY WORK WTFF i can pull a north korea if i want insane
  • feb 14: shipped indexing infra its so boring now i might leave this month or next
  • march: left and also dropped out of college, gonna take some time off and figure out what to do next, mostly not in crypto anymore