Riccardo Spagni

I've been a Bitcoiner since 2011 and have spent most of that time building cryptocurrency and privacy infrastructure. Founding member of the Monero Core Team and its former Lead Maintainer. Built MyMonero, invented OpenAlias, co-created Yat. Co-founded Tari Labs, where we built Tari, a programmable proof-of-work blockchain with on-chain privacy. I hold 21 patents in blockchain and decentralised identity. These days I build open-source AI tooling focused on giving developers and autonomous agents better safety nets. Current projects: nsh (an AI shell assistant) and uhoh (snapshot and recovery for when AI agents get overconfident). I care about how agents work in production, not how they score on benchmarks. Ask me about cryptocurrency architecture, privacy tech, blockchain protocol des...