{"title": "Blaine Bublitz - ETH/ZK Infrastructure & Ecosystem developer", "logoImg": "bafybeieqe5enwqcudxekje4auxvxk5oauxfu24cc2s6td3ywudh4ewto6u", "website": "https://github.com/phated", "createdAt": 1673480904429, "userGithub": "https://github.com/phated", "credentials": {}, "description": "Blaine Bublitz builds infrastructure for ETH/ZK application development. He also collaborates closely with the Dark Forest team and other 0xPARC-adjacent projects.\n\nBlaine is a developer who is excited about web tech, open source, the future of decentralized virtual worlds, and ZK applications. He got hooked during the first public round of Dark Forest and has been building in the ZK application ecosystem ever since.  Some of his work includes:\n\n** ZK Tooling and hardhat-circom **\n\nIn collaboration with Jacob Rosenthal, Blaine helped to rewrite Dark Forest's zkSNARK build processes. This work was generalized into the hardhat-circom plugin, a configurable hardhat plugin which provides developers with a set of ZK circuit build tasks, and provides TypeScript declarations for snarkjs.\n\n** Contributions to circom & snarkjs **\n\nBlaine contributes to circom and snarkjs on a regular basis. He’s provided patches to reduce the bundle build by 50% and enabled WebWorker support.\n\n** Hardhat plugins **\n\nBlaine created and maintains a series of hardhat plugins, such as hardhat-diamond-abi and hardhat-settings, which make large-scale projects easier to manage. All of these plugins were made possible through funding raised on Gitcoin and will continue to be maintained as long as they are useful to people!\n\n** Project Sophon **\n\nAs one half of Project Sophon, Blaine open sources many experiments related to Dark Forest or other ZK ecosystem projects, such as darkforest-local, Broadcast market, and DF plugin-dev-server.\n\nGitcoin contributions will support Blaine's ongoing open-source work on ZK infrastructure, crypto-native gaming, and developer tools.", "logoImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "https://github.com/projectsophon"}