Hi, I'm Rick Dudley.

Software written by a language model arrives with no independent account of whether it's correct. What I'm working on now: agreeing a specification with the person first, then establishing that the code meets it — so the result is trusted because it was measured, not because the model sounded confident.

Filecoin's developers needed a way to query their network's history and the standard tooling didn't work there. My company, Laconic, identified the software issues and provisioned the hardware required to fix the integration. We became the first subgraph provider to the Filecoin ecosystem.

Two parties who transact repeatedly shouldn't need a third to keep score. Laconic designed and built implementations of multi-party state channels, one written from scratch to run in a browser, so participants exchange thousands of updates privately and settle once on a public ledger — with neither side able to lie about what happened in between.

I was one of the contributors to a model law that gives decentralized organizations legal personality — drafted by an international working group of lawyers, academics and engineers, and presented at the UN's Internet Governance Forum. Where it could, it replaced a legal obligation with a technical guarantee that does the same job.

I founded a company to sell the 2017 idea properly. Its clearest result: one of the most widely used cryptocurrency wallets shipped an anti-phishing tool on my software, making it cheap enough for anyone to run a trustworthy copy of a list that had previously required trusting whoever published it.

I was one of six authors of a change to Ethereum's transaction pricing. It took two years of public argument to pass, now governs every transaction on the network, and has been copied by most of its competitors.

Most blockchain data tools read the events a developer chose to publish. I built one that captured raw state changes instead, so a query returned a result you could check rather than believe. It ran as the data layer for one of the largest financial applications on Ethereum.

I filed a patent on a way to move virtual goods between different companies' servers, so that any of them could verify, item by item, which changes were authorized and which were forged. It went in nineteen months before the Bitcoin paper, and largely anticipated cryptographically secured digital assets. Game publishers working on the same problem have cited it since.