Joshua J. Bouw

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Proof of Stake pioneer. Coder. Sovereign individual. Cypherpunk.

> whoami

Canadian-born, spent the early crypto years building from Vietnam and Cambodia, now based in Dubai. Head of AI at Unicity Labs, where I'm building secure agent runtimes and AI orchestration on blockchain infrastructure.

Co-founded Blackcoin in 2014 — one of the first pure PoS cryptocurrencies. Helped architect the PoS v2/v3 protocols, first-ever recipient of a smart contract via BitHalo predating Ethereum. Led the EVM team at Aurora (spun out of NEAR), shipping the first production EVM-on-WASM with full Ethereum compatibility. Built portable LLM assistants at Haltia.AI, then decentralized AI verification as Head of AI at ASIMOV Protocol.

Still auditing smart contracts. Still breaking things.

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> cat /proc/interests

BLOCKCHAIN          Consensus design · Smart contract auditing · ZK proofs · DeFi security
EVM / RUNTIME       WASM execution · EVM internals · Gas abstraction · Cross-chain bridges
AI / AGENTS         Neurosymbolic architectures · Agent runtime security · MCP protocols · Knowledge graphs
SECURITY            Vulnerability research · Protocol analysis · Adversarial testing

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> ls ~/toolkit

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> history | grep "notable"

now   Head of AI at Unicity Labs — AI orchestration, agent infrastructure, blockchain systems
2024  Head of AI at ASIMOV — user-owned AI, decentralized verification, knowledge graphs
2023  Head of Construct at Haltia.AI — portable LLM assistants and edge inference
2021  Engine Team Lead at Aurora — shipped production EVM-on-WASM with full Ethereum compatibility
2020  Core developer on NEAR Protocol's EVM team
2014  Co-founded Blackcoin — helped architect PoS v2/v3, first smart contract recipient (BitHalo)

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> ps aux | grep "active"

• 🤖 Astrid — Production-grade secure agent runtime in Rust. Cryptographic capability tokens, WASM sandboxing, chain-linked audit, full MCP 2025-11-25 spec
• 🏗️ Orchestrator — Knowledge graph-based MCP orchestration layer for Unicity
• 🛡️ Agent runtime security — breaking and hardening MCP-based AI systems

> uptime

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*"The best code is the code that doesn't need to trust anyone."*

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