Alexey Kalmykov

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Build your own VRF for Solana using drand

Let’s get fast, cheap and reasonably secure randomness for your Solana programs.

BTC L2 with hybrid crypto-economic security

This article is an attempt to devise a practical approach to maximizing crypto-economic security of a Bitcoin rollup. It is very much a WIP.

Introducing Aphotic: a fast, dark pool L2 DEX on Aleo

Alexey Kalmykov
February 23
Aphotic is a decentralized exchange (DEX) with performance of a centralized exchange (CEX) and strong privacy guarantees built on Aleo. Aphotic not only combines the best of the two worlds - efficiency of a CEX and self custody of a DEX - but also offers privacy, front-running protection and dark pool functionality without a need to trust DEX operators.