DROO AMOR

About

Hey, I'm Drew. I spent my twenties in engine rooms, first as a merchant mariner, then aboard nuclear submarines. I maintained secondary systems on Virginia-class boats (everything from the toilet up to and not including the reactor), eventually moved into test engineering, and ended up doing R&D inventions for submarines unexpectedly. A few of my inventions have been included in the Virginia and Columbia class block. I love complex, distributed, and asymmetric systems.

I got into crypto as a protocol specialist at Blockdaemon, then as a contributor at Lido DAO. Two of the biggest staking operations. I figured out what I wanted to build and left to do it with people I trusted.

Now I run xochi.fi and axol.io. Xochi (pronounced: 'So-Chee') is a private exchange on Ethereum, it's meant to be a more friendly dark pool experience you can use to trade without exposing your orders. ZK proofs handle compliance instead of handing over your data. I believe economic and digital privacy must be embedded as first class citizens in a product. Where others find dichotomy, axolotls combinate and collaborate. We co-authored ERC-8262 (Zero-Knowledge Compliance Oracle) to standardize this approach as a public spec. axol.io runs the infra underneath: staking, an ETH client, sequencers, Builder.

I'm also building a Gundam. Not a metaphor. Raxol is the terminal framework behind it. It started as a TUI project, but now it's the agent commerce layer for Xochi: wallets that can act on their own.

When something I depend on can be made faster or fixed, I send it upstream. Recent: ARM NEON optimizations in FFmpeg, a Charon health check fix in Dappnode's Obol DVT package, and two extensions (aztec-noir, synthwave84) in the Zed marketplace.

The open infrastructure underneath Xochi (Mana, the ZK compliance standard, the stealth address primitives, the whitehat research) is funded through Giveth.