Posts
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Cruiser: A Tauri Hookup App on iroh, Geohash-Bucketed Presence, and Why P2P Dating Is Actually Fine
A Tauri 2 + React + iroh-gossip dating app where peers find each other by geohash, broadcast presence on a topic-per-bucket, and DM each other with consent signals — all without a central server. The architecture is the product.
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Why I started Zera Labs
Three things became true in the same year — ZK got fast enough, Solana got cheap enough, and AI agents needed verifiable money. Sitting at the intersection felt like a ship date, not a thesis.
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Prediction Markets, LP Locks, and an Admin Page That Doesn't Suck
How I bolted CPMM prediction markets onto ZeraSwap, locked LP for graduated tokens, and built a 5-tab admin panel before the first malicious actor showed up.
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Five Commits to Get an OG Image Out of a Cloudflare Worker
A 24-minute slog where I got dynamic OG PNG generation to work on Cloudflare Pages Functions. The bug is WebAssembly. The fix is a build-time WASM import.
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A Privacy Demo That Works on a Phone: Mobile Drawer, HUD Offsets, and Real Breach Data
Bolting a mobile drawer onto the Zera Med ZK-FHIR demo without breaking the desktop sidebar, fixing AnimatePresence warnings, and updating PrivacyChallenge with 2024-2025 breach data.
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ZK-FHIR: A Medical Demo That Doesn't Leak Patients
Building a RISC Zero zkVM gateway for FHIR-shaped medical records — proofs over private patient data, zero-knowledge insurance claims, and HIV/STI compartmentalization.
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ZeraSwap: An AMM for Compressed Tokens
Initial commit of the first compressed-token AMM on Solana — Anchor program, x*y=k math, SOL/cToken pairs, and the cyberpunk launchpad UI that grew up around it.
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Zera Janitor: Closing Solana Dust Accounts in Leptos WASM
A Solana program + Leptos 0.7 frontend that scans your wallet for empty SPL token accounts, batches up to 25 closes per transaction via CPI, and pays you back 95% of the rent. The fee path is the actual interesting part.
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Rebranding to m0n3y and Writing Crypto Docs Like You're 10
The DAXSO → M0N3Y rebrand commit, the burn-to-earn explainer for degens, and an ELI10 walk-through of zk-shielded notes that does not mention the word "circuit" once.
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Empowering Local Crypto Advocacy