Bitcoin
Asset
LDK + Rust
Stack
Summer 2026
Term
Self
Custody
- •Building on Stable Channels — a self-custodial Lightning wallet that pegs a portion of bitcoin to a dollar balance via overcollateralized channels
- •Working with LDK Node + Rust: both parties deposit equal bitcoin, and the channel rebalances every 30s against BTC/USD price feeds to hold the receiver at a fixed USD target
- •Implementing the stability loop: BTC/USD price polling, balance rebalancing across the channel, and reorg/timeout handling for the rebalance state machine
- •Working on the iOS version of Stable Channels — the mobile client for the self-custodial Lightning wallet
- •Studying forced- and cooperative-close flows so both sides can exit unilaterally with their bitcoin fully self-custodial at all times
RustiOSKotlinBitcoinLightning
PLDG
Track
Networking
Focus
4-6
Cohort
Remote
Mode
- •Selected into the Protocol Labs Developer Guild cohort contributing across Filecoin, IPFS, libp2p, and drand
- •Shipping fixes to drand: chain-hash dedup, beacon-id sync gauges, genesis-time flag, group-file validation, and http input validation across drand/drand, drand/tlock, and drand/kyber
- •Building on libp2p: deterministic test RNG, yamux stream fixes, Kademlia periodic replication, connection-limiter clarity, and signed-peer-record validation across cpp-libp2p and go-libp2p
- •Pairing with PL mentors and core protocol engineers on FVM, retrieval markets, and content addressing
- •Writing technical write-ups and pattern docs to share with the broader PL ecosystem
RustC++GoIPFSFilecoinlibp2pdrand
Compiler
Stack
Jun-Jan
Term
Runa
Scope
Remote
Mode
- •Led the project team end-to-end: scope, sprint planning, code review, and shipping releases across the Runa toolchain
- •Implemented new language features in the Runa compiler, improving execution flow and reducing redundant evaluations
- •Developed pilot apps to validate persistence and interaction models, surfacing edge cases fixed in the core runtime
- •Refactored compiler components and runtime paths to improve stability and cut execution-time regressions
RustC++PythonCompilerInterpreterRuna