✍️ CEO’s Introduction
Welcome to the Eiger Newsletter! For the past two years, we have been so busy building core web3 technology that we haven’t had the opportunity to sit down and tell the world about it. We have recently started publishing some articles and hope to continue publishing more, but bear with us; we are engineers who love Rust, not writers.
In the past two years, we have grown from one to almost 40 people. We have helped several clients with building core technology, but it hasn’t always been easy; during the lifetime of Eiger, we have been in a bear market, which means we have had to optimize every process since our inception. And even though it was tough, we’ve managed to build a successful operation that has been able to deliver high-quality services to our partners.
To any outsider, it might seem like things have quieted down in this industry, but the reality is that the winners of tomorrow are busy building now. Keep an eye out, because it's getting closer to dawn.
- Daren Tuzi, CEO of Eiger
📚 Blogs That We’ve Published
- Interview with Alex Pruden: We sat down with Alex Pruden, CEO of Aleo, to talk about his journey from special forces into crypto, his experience from leading a web3 startup, and what stands in the way of wider adoption of zero-knowledge proofs. Lots of insights from this conversation.
- Eiger Becomes the First Accredited Systems Integrator for Fireblocks: Fireblocks provides institutional infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets. We are excited to partner with them and help companies with the technical implementation of the Fireblocks offerings.
- Engineers' thoughts - Fireblocks SI partnership: We sat down with three of our engineers to discuss the training they received, the potential challenges one might face when trying to implement Fireblocks, and why they’re excited about the new partnership.
- Introducing OpEVM - The Next Generation Optimistic EVM Rollup: A sovereign EVM-compatible, optimistic rollup built on top of Avail and Polygon Edge as a collaboration between Avail, Equilibrium Labs & Eiger. You can read more about it on Avail’s blog or visit their GitHub.
- Enhancing Internet Computer with Ethereum Light Clients: A case study of an Eiger project where we built an implementation of the Helios light client for the Internet Computer (ICP). To learn more about the technical implementation, you can visit our GitHub repository.
- Elusiv: Bringing Privacy To Solana: An overview of Elusiv - a blockchain-based privacy protocol that’s currently deployed on Solana. Elusiv leverages ZKPs and commitments to offer users privacy with decentralized compliance.
- Nebula for Soroban - Simplifying Contract Execution: A project description of Nebula, which is a tool built by Eiger that aims to make the development of Soroban smart contracts easier (Soroban is a smart contracts platform on the Stellar network).
🔥 News and Announcements From Our Partners
- Forte partner Zynga announces Sugartown, its first Web3 game: Forte is Eiger’s oldest client and this announcement is a big leap forward for blockchain gaming. It's great to see all the hard work starting to bear fruit!
- Elusiv Launches Private Swaps on Solana: Private swaps are the latest feature of Elusiv, which allows for swapping between a number of assets without revealing any identifying information about yourself - a first for Solana!
📸 Recruitment and Employee Highlights
Eiger provides high-value add engineering services to accelerate Web3 mass adoption. If you’re interested in joining us and solving challenging problems along with the leading companies in the space - look at our open positions.
LinkedIn Snapshots:
Geoffrey Mureithi: A self-taught developer who previously worked on various projects including SaaS and payment processing. Geoffrey is a big fan of Rust, which according to him is the “king in web3”.
Nikolay Tsvetinov: One of the pioneering engineers in our team. Nikolay feels most at home in Elixir but is also comfortable in Rust, Java, and Ruby.
Sasi Helin: Sasi is one of the key players in our recruiting efforts and has been instrumental in bringing together the exceptional talents that make up our team.
Mariusz Pilarek: An academic turned software engineer - Mariusz has gained experience in C/C++, web development (Java, JS), and project management during his 10+ years in the industry.
Roberts Ivanovs: One of our Rust experts - Roberts thrives in our remote culture and excels in tackling intricate engineering challenges within our team.
🎤 Events
Meet us at these events:
- Solana Breakpoint (Oct 30 - Nov 3) - Daren Tuzi
Recap of events we visited:
- Zcon4 (by Zcash): Luca from Eiger (and Mark from Equilibrium Labs) were in Barcelona for the Zcon4, where Luca gave a speech about the UniFFI library and Mark about Ziggurat (a network testing suite).
- GamesCom 2023: Pascal spent a few days in Cologne exploring the state of Web3 gaming and, more broadly, the newest gaming trends. While there were a few Web3 native games present, the knowledge about web3 gaming and its benefits is still limited in the broader industry. More work is required to educate various stakeholders.
- Meridian 2023: Daren and Eloy spent a few days in Madrid exploring the Stellar ecosystem. Eloy also held a presentation about Nebula - a tool built by Eiger that aims to make the development of Soroban smart contracts easier.
