- GitHub: aurexav | hack-ink
- LinkedIn: Xavier Lau
- Nationality: China | Hong Kong
7 years of Rust development, 5 years of blockchain core development, and 1 year of AI research and application experience. Actively engaged in the Polkadot ecosystem with end-to-end expertise from protocol design, cross-chain bridge implementation, to mainnet operations. Significant influence in the open-source community with multiple widely adopted Rust libraries. Recently focused on applying AI Agents in Web3 intelligence and data systems.
- Polkadot Fellowship Member (ecosystem technical contributor)
- Polkadot Stack Exchange Moderator, Top 1–3 for 3 consecutive years: profile
- Independently developed and maintained a stable public blockchain: Darwinia
- Developed the first Ethereum↔Substrate Crosschain Bridge in the Polkadot ecosystem
- Led seamless migration from Solochain → Parachain (mainnet upgrade)
- Independently completed 3 W3F Grants: projects index
- Created the first Rust miner for Bitcoin Atomicals Protocol, achieving multi-fold efficiency gains; community GPU miner was built upon it: atomicalsir
- Rust array encoding library array-bytes: used by 9,000+ projects, 8,000,000+ downloads on crates.io
- Rust string escaping library unescaper: used by 2,000+ projects, 6,000,000+ downloads on crates.io; adopted by OpenZeppelin, Stackware, GreptimeDB, probe-rs, serialport
- AI Agentic Crypto/DeFi Intelligence System: autonomous intelligence gathering and analysis from on-chain and exchange data sources (self-developed)
2025 – Present | Helixbox Team | AI Agent Research
- Researched and implemented AI Agent frameworks for the crypto industry, building pipelines for multi-source data collection, aggregation, and intelligence generation.
- Developed intelligent coordination mechanisms for on-chain event parsing, protocol change tracking, and risk alerts.
2024 – 2025 | Subscan Team | Data Analysis
- Improved blockchain explorer metric systems and query performance; enhanced cross-chain and ecosystem data aggregation views.
- Established data quality validation and automated reporting processes to support analytical insights.
2020 – 2024 | Darwinia Team | Blockchain Development
- Led core module and cross-chain bridge development and maintenance for Darwinia blockchain.
- Directed the migration from Solochain to Parachain, ensuring stable mainnet upgrades.
- Maintained node and on-chain operational stability, iterating consensus, network, and storage implementations.
- GitHub contributions: aurexav | hack-ink
- Polkadot Stack Exchange: Moderator / Top contributor (profile)
- Representative projects:
- array-bytes (array encoding)
- unescaper (string escaping)
- atomicalsir (Bitcoin Atomicals Rust miner)
- Other W3F grants and tools: overview
- Bitcoin Ecosystem
- Polkadot Ecosystem
- Crosschain Bridge
- Blockchain Consensus
- Staking
- Security Audit
- DevOps
- Memory injection, application reverse engineering & unpacking
- Game engine reverse engineering (data unpacking, ray tracing, Rust version)
- Embedded development (Rust version)
- Web scraping (packet capture, API reverse engineering, Rust version)
- AI image generation (Stable Diffusion, LoRA)
- AI vision (object detection, image segmentation, YOLO/ONNX/CUDA/TensorRT, Rust version)
- Computer hardware maintenance & simulation
- Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology
- English proficiency: B2–C1