I'm Santino Vivas — 18, a university student who loves the philosophy of Web3. AI, science, and blockchain technology are among my interests, and I'm drawn to projects that combine several of these areas.
I spend my time between classes, reading, and exploring how digital systems actually work under the surface — from smart contracts and DeFi mechanisms to security assumptions, protocol design, and the ways things can fail in practice.
My strongest interests sit around blockchain, AI, science, and offensive-security thinking. I'm especially drawn to projects that connect several of those areas and turn abstract ideas into something concrete, testable, and useful.
I'm not an expert in any of these — I just enjoy poking at them in my spare time.
Reading about how models learn, tinkering with APIs, and trying to understand what's really going on under the hood.
I love the way a single clean idea can explain a whole corner of reality. Occasional reader of papers, regular watcher of long explainer videos.
Drawn by the technology more than the hype — smart contracts, wallets, and the idea of public, verifiable systems.
I'm interested in offensive-security thinking, reverse engineering, and understanding how real systems fail under pressure.
I'm drawn to incentives, coordination, stable systems, and the economic logic behind protocols, markets, and governance.
The thread behind all of the above. The fun is in starting, shipping something small, and seeing what I learn along the way.
An evolving toolbox — things I'm comfortable with, things I'm still picking up.
A tighter snapshot of the work I want to highlight right now.
A project space centered on security research, reverse engineering, and learning how systems break in practice.
An AI-assisted concept for translating code, explaining what specific parts do, and understanding complex systems much faster.
My first real contact with crypto. At that stage it was mostly curiosity, exploration, and trying to understand why these systems mattered.
The interest became more serious. I started paying closer attention to the ecosystem and following the ideas behind it with more intention.
I began studying and understanding common concepts inside these systems more clearly - how they are structured, why they work, and where assumptions matter.
A much stronger focus on architecture, mechanism design, and the internal functioning of DeFi systems.
These became the years where I moved harder into ethical hacking, security-oriented thinking, and took part in my first competition in 2026.
Feel free to reach out — for a chat, a collab, or just to share an interesting idea.