RWA · Real estate · 2021–2022
Tantium
Co-founder & head of engineering
Tantium was a real estate tokenization platform I co-founded in Bordeaux. The ambition was to build the first European product that fully complied with French and EU securities regulations for tokenized real estate. I led the technology and product: legal-first tokenomics and whitepaper, smart contracts for fractional ownership, backend infrastructure and the full product specification. In a field where most projects move fast and worry about compliance later, Tantium started from the regulation and built the product around it. The venture ended due to strategic divergence between co-founders, but the regulatory expertise carried directly into my subsequent RWA and tokenization work.
- Legal-first tokenomics and whitepaper
- Smart contracts and backend infrastructure
- First EU-compliant real estate token product
Dash
Lead backend & principal protocol engineering
Led backend development at Dash Core Group and co-invented ChainLocks, the LLMQ-based consensus that hardened a top-tier chain against 51% attacks. Built DAPI, the decentralised API, and led the SDK and DashPay wallet teams.
- Co-invented ChainLocks, consensus tech later reused across $350B+ of projects
- Architected DAPI, the decentralised API layer, and led wallet & SDK teams
- Ran crisis response on critical security disclosures
RWA protocol
DeFi & RWA protocol architecture
Architecture and core engineering for a real-world-asset protocol tokenising gold and housing, designed for on-chain transparency, a reusable signer layer, and an audit path from day one.
- Designed the tokenization and settlement architecture (RWA)
- On-chain transparency and proof systems
- Shared signer layer built once, reusable across protocols
Zebitex
Exchange & market-data infrastructure
Exchange APIs and trading infrastructure for a French centralised crypto exchange: standardised market data, order flow and the kind of correctness and uptime money demands.
- Standardised exchange & market-data APIs
- Real-time order flow and trading agents
- Correctness and uptime for live financial markets