Technical writing on DeFi engineering, AI agents, ZK proofs, cross-chain systems, and blockchain infrastructure.https://condordev.xyz/en-ushttps://condordev.xyz/blog/pedersen-groth16-cadence-benchmarks/https://condordev.xyz/blog/pedersen-groth16-cadence-benchmarks/Zero published benchmarks for ZK in Cadence. I measured them. PedersenBabyJub addCommits ~16 CU, ConfidentialToken transfer ~327k gas, mixer Poseidon cross-VM, and more. What's feasible, what's not.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTZKcryptographyFlowCadenceEVMGroth16benchmarkshttps://condordev.xyz/blog/model-sweep-deepseek-thinking-modes/https://condordev.xyz/blog/model-sweep-deepseek-thinking-modes/Structured sweep across DeepSeek V4 Flash non-think / think-high / think-max on 8 agent tasks. Pass-rate stays high; the real cost is reasoning tokens you pay for and never see. Plus two gateway footguns worth knowing.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTLLMDeepSeekMiniMaxmulti-agentcosthttps://condordev.xyz/blog/verification-locks-agent-loops/https://condordev.xyz/blog/verification-locks-agent-loops/Deep-dive on the single mechanism in FlowCode that did the most to stop runaway iterations. Command-as-fingerprint locks, PIVOT_NEEDED / PROBE_NEEDED / SANDBOX_BLOCKED sentinels, and a bash AST sandbox upgrade.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTmulti-agentLLMtoolingagent designhttps://condordev.xyz/blog/opencode-fork-cadence/https://condordev.xyz/blog/opencode-fork-cadence/Cadence is a niche language that big LLMs don't handle well. I forked OpenCode to specialize it — and to collect multi-agent traces as training signal for small domain-specific models. Not released yet, and here's why.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTFlowCadenceLLMtraining datatoolinghttps://condordev.xyz/blog/colbert-to-openrouter-cohere/https://condordev.xyz/blog/colbert-to-openrouter-cohere/We replaced a self-hosted ColBERT ONNX retrieval pipeline with OpenRouter embeddings + Cohere rerank. The numbers, the reasoning, and honest reflections on production RAG cost vs. performance tradeoffs.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTRAGAIsearchA0XColBERTCoherehttps://condordev.xyz/blog/why-privacy-on-flow-and-compliance/https://condordev.xyz/blog/why-privacy-on-flow-and-compliance/Personal motivation for building privacy infrastructure on Flow — Latin American financial context, the compliance reality, why Flow's cross-VM model is uniquely suited, and what 'privacy not impunity' actually means in code.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTprivacyFlowcomplianceDeFiZKhttps://condordev.xyz/blog/swarm-mode-a0x-teams/https://condordev.xyz/blog/swarm-mode-a0x-teams/Why multi-agent over single-agent, how we orchestrate parallel specialized agents at A0X, and the lessons from running planner/writer/auditor teams on production tasks.Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI agentsmulti-agentorchestrationA0Xhttps://condordev.xyz/blog/forking-simplemem-for-a0x/https://condordev.xyz/blog/forking-simplemem-for-a0x/What I learned extending an open-source agent memory system and wiring it into a production multi-agent platform. HuggingFace embeddings, multi-tenant LanceDB, and +8.5% F1 over the SimpleMem baseline.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI agentsmemoryopen sourceLanceDBHuggingFacehttps://condordev.xyz/blog/cuyfi-eth-global-argentina/https://condordev.xyz/blog/cuyfi-eth-global-argentina/A postmortem on building CuyFI at ETH Global Argentina — LayerZero bridges, Privy wallets, LangChain agents, and ERC4626 vaults in 36 hours. What worked, what broke, and what I'd do differently.Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThackathonAI agentsDeFicross-chainLayerZeroPrivy