Antony Denyer

For the record, I HATE JIRA. And most of the other task management tools that go with it. In my view, they tend to get in the way of collaborative working. The idea is reasonable enough, but the setup and the way people use it almost always nudge you towards... [Read More]

One of the things I’ve struggled with recently is getting back into a state of flow. [Read More]

In my previous post on PropAMMs, I framed them as the next step in Ethereum’s trading-primitive evolution: a move from passive liquidity curves to programmable market makers, where pricing intelligence sits closer to execution. [Read More]

Ethereum has spent the better part of a decade optimizing for settlement infrastructure. Nearly every major breakthrough of the last few years has focused on increasing throughput, reducing transaction costs, improving verification systems, or modularizing the blockchain stack into increasingly specialized components. Rollups, shared sequencers, alternative virtual machines, modular execution... [Read More]

This post is a lightly adapted cross-post of research and design work originally written while building baibai.cx at spire.dev. Some sections have been expanded, simplified or reframed for a broader audience, but much of the historical background and underlying thesis remains the same. If you want the original version with... [Read More]