Arkiv (Golem Factory)
Sr. Developer Relations · Jun 2026 – Present
Senior Developer Relations for Arkiv, the Web3 database: an Ethereum-aligned DB-Chain where data lives as queryable, time-scoped entities. Building the AI-native onboarding path (MCP server, docs, telemetry), publishing the open-source tooling around the SDK, stress-testing the chain itself, running the builder programs (the Arkiv Ideathon and the ETHRome bounty), and turning what builders hit into engineering data.
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- Ran the Arkiv bounty at ETHRome 2026 (Rome): one canonical rule source generating the builder hub page, the MCP knowledge base and the submission form, a 20-minute Postgres to Arkiv workshop on SDK 0.8, and on-site judging. 13 teams shipped on the Tiramisu testnet over the weekend
- Shipped a read-only, keyless ETHRome MCP server that builders used as a rules checker: validate a schema, pre-check a submission, read the bounty. 204 builder calls in the event window with 2 technical errors in about 50 hours
- Turned hackathon feedback into engineering data: archived every feedback file pinned to the judged commit, and checked 286 builder claims about Arkiv against SDK source (133 confirmed, 51 partly true, 15 wrong) before they reached the engineering team
- Measured the SDK 0.8 surface against the live network before the event, catching 7 wrong assumptions in the plan, including a 10x error in block time that would have broken every expiration example
- Hosted and judged the Arkiv Ideathon (Aug 2026): built the landing, an idea-coach MCP server and the public results repo, and judged 169 submissions across the AI & DevTools and Other tracks
- Caught a consensus-halting flaw in Arkiv's L3 before any external builder hit it: adversarial load testing produced a block that exceeded the consensus replication limit and froze the chain for ~12h. Reported it with a clean reproduction and verified the team's fix on a locally built devnet
- Made the Web3 database adoptable from any AI client: shipped a production-hardened, security-audited MCP server (local + hosted over HTTP), a docs site, and a privacy-preserving telemetry layer designed to measure first successful query rather than sign-ups
- Published arkiv-sync on npm: an open-source EVM to Arkiv event indexer (library + scaffolder + agent skill + live demo) that survives reorgs, is idempotent, resumes from a cursor, and batches its writes
- Published arkiv-graph on npm: a library + live showcase that renders a running Arkiv database as an interactive graph with writes signed by the visitor's own wallet, no server key involved
- Turned 124 hackathon submissions into the 104-project ecosystem showcase developers browse today, via a multi-agent audit pipeline that verified real product usage repo by repo; contributed the developer-facing surfaces of the official builder hub
- Built SureX at ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026: a trust registry for MCP servers plus a Claude Code gate that halts a flagged tool call and hands the decision to a human, with reviews running on a self-hosted NVIDIA DGX
- Ran the product's live event surfaces: an interactive booth app for ETHPragma Lisbon where every tap exercises a real Arkiv capability against a live testnet, and the builder-facing ETHRome page on the official hub
- Shipped a remote MCP hackathon copilot for the team ahead of ETHGlobal Lisbon: a multi-model-researched knowledge base of all 8 sponsors, queryable from any LLM client
- Fed engineering what only a DevRel sitting in the SDK can see: reproducible friction logs with repro commands and version numbers, delivered as an actionable document per team
Ecosystem Partners
Built at Arkiv
SureX2026
Trust registry for MCP servers built at ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026. An MCP server runs with the full permissions of the agent that installs it, and nobody reads the code. SureX publishes a reviewed verdict per server and enforces it at the point of the tool call: a Claude Code PreToolUse gate halts a flagged call, re-verifies the evidence bytes, and hands the decision to a human.
Arkiv MCP Server2026
The AI-native onboarding path for Arkiv, the Web3 database. A production-hardened MCP server (local over stdio + hosted over HTTP) that lets any AI client read and write Arkiv entities, plus a docs site and a privacy-preserving telemetry layer built to answer one question: how many developers reach a first successful query, not how many signed up.
arkiv-sync2026
Open-source EVM to Arkiv event indexer, published on npm. Listens to any contract's events and mirrors them into Arkiv as queryable entities: it survives chain reorgs, is idempotent, resumes from a cursor, and batches its writes. Ships as a library plus an npm create scaffolder, an agent skill, and a live demo. The answer to the question every evaluator asks: how do I get my data in?
arkiv-graph2026
Open-source npm library + live showcase that renders a running Arkiv database as an interactive graph and tables. Visitors explore entities and their relationships live, and every write is signed by the visitor's own wallet: no server key anywhere. It gives the product a face developers can inspect.
Query the GOAT2026
Interactive booth app for the Arkiv stand at ETHPragma Lisbon. A 6-step, tap-driven experience where each animation demonstrates a real Arkiv capability (write, query + filter, live aggregation, Entity Expiration + Lifetime Extension, verifiability) through the World Cup 2026 GOAT debate, backed by real on-chain writes and reads on the Braga testnet.
Events
HackathonETHGlobal Lisbon 2026
Builder (Arkiv team)
Lisbon, Portugal
Hacked ETHGlobal Lisbon with the Arkiv team and built SureX, a trust registry for MCP servers with a Claude Code gate that halts a flagged tool call for human approval. Reviews run on a self-hosted NVIDIA DGX; evidence is content-addressed on Walrus/Sui, indexed on Arkiv, and readable through an ENS wildcard resolver on Ethereum mainnet.
ConferenceETHPragma Lisbon 2026
Sr. Developer Relations
Lisbon, Portugal
Ran the Arkiv booth activation at ETHPragma Lisbon: Query the GOAT, an interactive app where every tap demonstrates a real Arkiv capability against the live Braga testnet through the World Cup 2026 GOAT debate, with a live leaderboard on the big screen and durable, encrypted lead capture.
HackathonArkiv Ideathon 2026
Host & Judge
Online, Worldwide
Hosted Arkiv's month-long online Ideathon, where builders submitted an idea plus its Arkiv data model across four tracks. Built the developer landing, an idea-coach MCP server that pressure-tests a submission against the judging rubric, and the public results repo, then judged the AI & DevTools and Other tracks.
HackathonETHRome 2026
Sr. Developer Relations
Rome, Italy
Led Arkiv's bounty at ETHRome, a 40-builder hackathon at Urbe Hub in Rome. Wrote the missions and rules into one canonical source, gave a Postgres to Arkiv workshop on SDK 0.8, shipped the builder hub page and a keyless MCP server that checks schemas and submissions, and judged on site. 13 teams shipped on the Arkiv Tiramisu testnet; afterwards every piece of builder feedback was verified against SDK source and handed to engineering.
