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🌐 Harris Levine — pynchmeister

Senior Smart Contract Engineer • Protocol Builder • Founder of DED

Solidity · Yul · Foundry · Celestia · Modular Rollups · EVM Internals · FHE · TypeScript


🚀 About Me

I’m a smart contract engineer, protocol researcher, and full-stack Web3 builder with 6+ years of experience shipping production systems across:

  • DeFi protocols and on-chain marketplaces
  • Modular rollups (Celestia / Rollkit / Ethermint)
  • Explorers & verification tooling
  • FHE & cryptography-driven applications
  • Decentralized education & media protocols

I’ve contributed to audited, production-grade DeFi, designed sovereign rollup architectures, built developer tooling for real networks, and taught 30+ students Solidity, EVM internals, and security.

Right now I’m focused on:

  • Advanced Solidity/Yul engineering
  • Protocol / infra design on modular stacks
  • DED, a decentralized education protocol for verifiable, peer-to-peer learning

🧠 Technical Focus

Smart Contracts & Security
Solidity · Yul · Foundry · Hardhat · gas optimization · fuzzing · invariants · audit prep

Blockchain / Infra
Celestia · Rollkit · Ethermint · DA layers · IPFS · Filecoin · Sourcify · FHE

EVM Internals
Opcodes · stack/memory analysis · gas profiling · low-level assembly

Full Stack
TypeScript · Node.js · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Next.js · React · Angular

Other
WebRTC · Python · Golang · hypergraphs · wallet integrations


⭐ Featured Work

🔹 DED — Decentralized Education Development (Founder, Active)

DED is a protocol and platform for permissionless, trust-minimized, peer-to-peer education.

It explores:

  • Verifiable learning sessions

    • On-chain commitments around live instruction
    • Identity-agnostic participation with cryptographic guarantees
  • Transparent payment & escrow flows

    • Conditional settlement and dispute-aware escrows
    • Incentive-aligned economics for students and instructors
  • Decentralized credentialing

    • “Proof-of-learning” artifacts
    • Non-transferable completion receipts and on-chain skill attestations
  • Replayable, permissioned sessions

    • Controlled access to session recordings
    • Rental / licensing flows enforced on-chain

Implementation spans Solidity, rollup-friendly design, and WebRTC-driven live sessions.
Current status: MVP contracts + frontend + WebRTC integration on testnet, pushing toward mainnet.


🔹 Modular Cloud Explorer — Contract Verification & Infra

A decentralized contract verification + explorer stack integrating Sourcify, serverless indexing, and a dev-friendly UI.

Highlights:

  • Sourcify-based contract verification flows
  • Explorer-style UX for multiple networks
  • ABI/metadata pipelines and schema design
  • Serverless APIs for contract and transaction data

Tech: Solidity, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Prisma

🔗 Repo: https://github.com/modularcloud/explorer


🔹 Etch — NFT Social Protocol (NDA)

An NFT-native social protocol for publishing and interacting with dynamic on-chain media.

My work (high level):

  • Core smart contract architecture & modular NFT primitives
  • Ownership & access control flows
  • Metadata and minting mechanisms
  • Backend/indexer integration and UX-driven contract APIs

Tech: Solidity, Foundry, Angular, TypeScript, Node.js

Code is private under NDA; happy to discuss patterns and architecture at a high level.


🔹 Wells / Basin — On-Chain ERC-20 DEX (Beanstalk Farms)

Contributions to Wells (Basin), a production-grade ERC-20 DEX:

  • Implemented new features and protocol logic
  • Wrote stateful fuzz tests & invariants
  • Performed gas optimization and audit-prep improvements

Tech: Solidity, Yul, Foundry, Hardhat

🔗 Repo: https://github.com/BeanstalkFarms/Basin


🔹 Yul Greatest Hits — Low-Level EVM R&D

A collection of experiments in Yul and low-level EVM patterns:

  • Opcode-level control flow and micro-optimizations
  • Storage and memory layout patterns
  • DeFi primitive prototypes written close to the metal

Tech: Yul, Solidity, Foundry

🔗 Repo: https://github.com/pynchmeister/yul-greatest-hits


🔹 Celestia Long-Term Data Storage MVP

An MVP exploring long-term verifiable storage on top of Celestia:

  • Architecture for data availability + content addressing
  • Off-chain storage with on-chain proofs
  • DA-aware application patterns for future rollups & dApps

Tech: Celestia, Rollkit, Ethermint, TypeScript, IPFS/Filecoin

🔗 Repo: https://github.com/pynchmeister/celestia-long-term-data-storage-mvp


🧩 Upstream PRs & Open Source

I actively contribute to open-source Web3 infra and protocol tooling.

Selected upstream work:

I also maintain and experiment with:

  • yul-greatest-hits — low-level EVM/Yul R&D
  • vyper-greatest-hits — Vyper contract experiments
  • huff-examples-foundry — Huff patterns and examples in a Foundry workspace

🎓 Teaching & Mentorship

I’ve taught 30+ students how to build secure, real-world blockchain systems:

  • Custom Solidity & EVM internals curriculum
  • Smart contract security, threat modeling, and audit prep
  • Foundry, Hardhat, invariant testing, and fuzzing
  • Modular rollups, DA layers, and next-gen L1/L2 architectures

I care deeply about decentralized education and making advanced protocol concepts accessible.


💼 Open To

I’m open to:

  • Smart Contract Engineer / Protocol Engineer roles
  • Blockchain Infra / Rollups / DA teams
  • DeFi / NFT protocol engineering
  • Developer tooling and explorer/verification infra
  • Collaborating on DED and decentralized education primitives

📫 Contact

If you’re building modular infrastructure, next-gen protocols, or decentralized education systems, I’d love to talk.

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  1. vyper-greatest-hits vyper-greatest-hits Public

    A collection of Vyper code across various topics and concepts

    Vyper 33 4

  2. yul-greatest-hits yul-greatest-hits Public

    A collection of Yul/Yul+ code, from basic token standards, to advanced Defi primitives

    Yul 19 1

  3. celestia-long-term-data-storage-mvp celestia-long-term-data-storage-mvp Public

    Forked from DED-EDU/celestia-long-term-data-storage-mvp

    Smart Contract Demo of Long-Term Data Storage with Celestia Sovereign Rollups to provide data availability and consensus, using Ethermint & RollKit as the execution environment.

    Solidity

  4. explorer explorer Public

    Forked from modularcloud/explorer

    An extensible modular block explorer

    TypeScript

  5. Basin Basin Public

    Forked from BeanstalkFarms/Basin

    A composable EVM-native decentralized exchange protocol.

    Solidity

  6. DED-learning-session-showcase DED-learning-session-showcase Public

    Forked from DED-EDU/DED-learning-session-showcase

    A public, educational showcase of the core ideas behind Decentralized Education Development (DED)

    Solidity