Cryptography · confidential computing · coordination systems · relational critical engineering
zorvan
diaries of a nomadic relationarch.
I engineer systems where people can coordinate and answer for their actions without being surveilled, modelled, or steered — cryptography and confidential computing on one side; relational philosophy, critique, and an art of the in-between on the other. A cryptographer by trade, a relational thinker by disposition.
zero-knowledge proofsconfidential computingMPC · FHERustcoordination without surveillancerelational philosophycritical theory
Building Diewan and Zwischen now, and looking for people who think in relations to build with. who I am
From the notebook
essays, synced from Medium-
Masters Do Not Allow, Slaves Can Not Prove, Nomads Will Not Fit
A self-criticism on Accountability Economy: friends, foes and marginalized
I have stood in front of that gate. You have too. You are not allowed, and no one is accountable If you find a way in, then there is a counter. There is a person behind it who is not unkind, that is the part that undoes…
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A Manifesto for the Age of Delegated Action — v1.0
How can authority, evidence and responsibility move through systems as quickly as action does?
No consequential action should be allowed to erase the relations that made it possible. An intelligent system acts. It recommends a treatment, refuses a payment, deploys software, moves an asset, negotiates a contract…
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Portable State Is Not a Bridge
How do we transport an object between chains?
Toward a cross-chain client-side validation runtime For years, the blockchain industry has treated interoperability as a transportation problem. One chain has an asset; another chain wants it; therefore we build a…
Selected work
blockchain · confidential computing · topologyTEE enclave server (Intel SGX + Gramine) for Ternoa's Secret-NFT protocol — remote attestation, P2P real-time key sync, and secure key management bound to the chain.
Rust · SGX · GramineKnowledge discovery for Obsidian vaults via topological analysis — building a simplicial complex over notes to surface higher-order structure and hidden connections.
TypeScriptA multi-chain client-side validation adapter — anchoring state transitions across blockchain layers so state can travel with its own proof. Archived reference.
RustVerifiable secret sharing — split a secret so any threshold of holders can prove a share is valid without revealing it.
Rust · WebAssemblyStanding projects
infrastructure for collective lifeTwo halves of one relational thesis — that people can coordinate and be held accountable without being modelled, predicted, or steered.
Infrastructure for an accountability economy: every consequential action travels with portable, verifiable proof of the mandate that permitted it. Authority stated, action proven, responsibility preserved.
accountability · client-side validationA coordination system for small groups that shapes how people relate to what is forming — through perception, not prediction; carrying memory from one gathering to the next, without modelling users or steering outcomes.
coordination · the in-between