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The people behind the lab.

A research lab is only as legible as the people in it. These are ours, and what they worked on before.

Davit Maisuradze, Co-Founder & CTO

Davit Maisuradze

Co-Founder & CTO

Senior fullstack developer. Founded thirdmerch, which raised $24,000 through the FutureLab accelerator before winding down in 2025, and has shipped six-plus miniapps — Protardio at 5,000 daily actives, Jesus at 2,000, Spot the Ball at 400. Built Diapleo, a DeFi risk terminal with a 15,000-strong waitlist, and Kumo Finance on testnet, alongside $10,000+ in hackathon winnings — two from Logos, plus Token2049 Singapore and Bangkok, ZuVillage Georgia, Zuitzerland, the TON hackathon and the Uniswap Hookathon.

  • Fullstack engineering
  • Smart contracts
  • DeFi
  • Consumer miniapps

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rekt

Protocol Architect

Roughly eleven years across DeFi and TradFi, beginning in Big Four financial consulting. Built a vault on top of Morpho Blue with direct guidance from the Morpho team, and co-founded several protocols since — among them a ve(3,3) DEX and DATs across multiple chains.

  • Protocol architecture
  • Lending design
  • Liquidation & risk
  • Market design

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Solomon Esenyi, Core Team — Quant Research & Engineering

Solomon Esenyi

Core Team — Quant Research & Engineering

Quantitative researcher and software developer working in Rust and Python. Contributor to the Lighter SDK, and the author of PerpsPlayground and a body of published work on Solana performance, slashing and cross-chain market structure.

  • Quantitative research
  • Rust
  • Python
  • Solana

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ADPthegreat

Lead Rust & Solidity Engineer

Solana smart contract engineer working in Rust and Solidity. Reverse-engineered the lending restrictions on Kamino — one of the largest lending protocols on Solana — to show that restricted programs can be composed with anyway, and built the first Solana AMM and concentrated-liquidity market maker with flash swaps integrated, plus the perpspad.fun launchpad.

  • Rust
  • Solidity
  • Solana
  • AMM design

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Selected writing

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Olaitan Ayoola, Smart Contract Auditor — Security Engineering & Reverse Engineering

Olaitan Ayoola

Smart Contract Auditor — Security Engineering & Reverse Engineering

Senior security engineer and reverse engineer, with over $50,000 returned through whitehat wallet recoveries and 10+ CVEs disclosed. Core team at Nearkits, previously at Atato. Holds OSCP, PNPT, Pentest+, eWPT, eJPT and CNSS.

  • Smart contract audit
  • Reverse engineering
  • Vulnerability research

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