Hi there 👋 I'm Pascal

About me 💯

• 🔭 I'm currently working on what's next.
• 🔧 My day (and sometimes night) job is to help safeguard the Ethereum ecosystem.
• ➕ Previously, I founded DAITA Technologies, a Swiss-based startup specialising in transforming raw data into AI-ready data sets at scale, and Alethena, a company pioneering Ethereum-based tokenised shares and their trading via an automated market maker in Switzerland.
• 🎓 I hold a Master's degree in Quantitative Finance from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).
• ❤️ Generally, I'm truly passionate about Machine/Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Ethereum Smart Contracts, Bitcoin, and OSS Engineering.
• 📫 How to reach me: pascal.caversaccio@hotmail.ch.
• 🌱 I'm currently learning not to go insane – broadly speaking.
• 💬 Ask me about anything – maybe I can help you; most likely not.
• ⚡ Fun fact: It took less code to send a man to the moon than to run a smartphone.

💻 OSes

🎯 Skills

⌨️ Programming languages

• 🐍 Vyper

🎛 Frameworks and runtime environments

• DappTools
• Foundry
• Hardhat
• Truffle Suite

🗃 Package, dependency, and environment management

🛠 Toolings, platforms, infrastructure providers, and libraries

• ethers.js
• web3.js

📦 npm packages

• xdeployer – A Hardhat plugin to deploy your smart contracts across multiple Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains with the same deterministic address.

📚 Smart contract libraries

• 🐍 snekmate – State-of-the-art, highly opinionated, hyper-optimised, and secure 🐍Vyper smart contract building blocks.

😎 Miscellaneous

• ⚔️ A Historical Collection of Reentrancy Attacks – A chronological and (hopefully) complete list of reentrancy attacks to date.
• Batch Distributor – Helper smart contract for batch sending both native and ERC-20 tokens.
• CREATE2 Deployer – Helper smart contract to make easier and safer usage of the CREATE2 EVM opcode.
• CreateX – A Trustless, Universal Contract Deployer – Factory smart contract to make easier and safer usage of the CREATE and CREATE2 EVM opcodes as well as of CREATE3-based (i.e. without an initcode factor) contract creations.
• Fully-Fledged Hardhat Project Template – A fully-fledged Hardhat project template based on TypeScript.
• 🕵️‍♂️ TORN Detector – Detect if a contract has been deployed in the latest (or predefined) block from an address that was previously funded through Tornado.Cash.
• 📊 Dune Dashboards:
  • Smart Contract Deployment Statistics
  • Minimal Proxies
  • Selfdestruct
  • Vyper Deployment Statistics
• 📝 Articles:
  • Understanding Ethereum ERC-20 Meta-Transactions
  • How 🐍Vyper Compiles Into Bytecode
  • The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto
• 🧠 EIPs:
  • EIP-6789: Rename gas to mana
  • EIP-7266: Remove BLAKE2 compression precompile

💰 Funding

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