mandrigin.eth

@mandrigin

CTO @gateway_eth | before: @ErigonEth @ethstatus @opera

Switzerland

gateway.fm

Joined December 2007

mandrigin.eth
@mandrigin
20h
Part of the cdk-erigon work on @0xPolygon's zkEVM back in 2023-2024 was getting the prover off the node's database. A prover that reads the state DB is coupled to that node's internals — storage layout, access paths, caching. Change the client and you are rebuilding the prover.
Stateful vs stateless ZK proving | Gateway
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mandrigin.eth
@mandrigin
Aug 19
The market is reaching the point we have been building toward for years. Institutions want the advantages of onchain finance without surrendering control over their data, policies, jurisdiction or operating environment. This article lays out why we believe sovereign onchain
Gateway FM
@gateway_eth
Aug 19
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴. Regulated onchain finance is becoming one of the most important shifts in financial infrastructure. But Gateway did not arrive here because the category became popular.
mandrigin.eth
@mandrigin
Aug 17
Listening back to the conversation with Ben, one analogy I think captures the broader problem well: A financial market needs doors and it needs roads. Doors are a useful way to think about institutional privacy. They create boundaries around sensitive information, while defining
Gateway FM
@gateway_eth
Aug 17
Privacy is becoming table stakes for institutional onchain finance. But privacy without interoperability risks recreating the same financial silos on new infrastructure. In this Privacy podcast, our co-founder & CTPO @mandrigin with @btschiller (from @0xMiden) dive deeper into
mandrigin.eth
@mandrigin
Aug 14
The next wave of finance onchain isn't held back by throughput — it's held back by the fact that your salary, your trades, your counterparties are all public by default. Institutions won't build on a transparent ledger. Neither should you have to. Dug into this + AggLayer,
Miden
@0xMiden
Aug 14
As more financial activity moves onchain, privacy and interoperability are becoming increasingly important for institutions, and @mandrigin, co-founder and CTPO of @gateway_eth, knows all about that. In this episode of the Privacy Podcast, he speaks with @btschiller about
mandrigin.eth
@mandrigin
Aug 13
Institutional onchain infrastructure cannot be deployed with a one-size-fits-all model. Jurisdiction, deployment requirements, privacy, interoperability and the surrounding financial ecosystem all matter. Going regional means getting closer to those constraints and building with
Gateway FM
@gateway_eth
Aug 13
𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗘𝗜𝗭𝗔 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗼𝗨 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮. This partnership is a