Founding engineer · AI agents · Cross-chain · Full stack

I build systems that move real money and hold at 100K users.

Richard Wayne. Founding engineer for the past 10 years. I take products from idea to production: autonomous AI agents, cross-chain infrastructure across 23 chains, and interfaces people trust with their money.

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Everyone fears the agent that says done and did nothing. So I build systems where nothing counts as done without a confirmed on-chain transaction hash.

Selected work

AFI

Founder and Lead Architect

An agentic bank where you talk to your Visa card and a bonded AI agent moves your money. Nothing counts as done without a confirmed on-chain transaction hash, so the agent cannot lie about what it did.

AI agentsLayerZero V2Circle CCTPVisa railsPostgreSQL

Memetropolis

Founder and CTO

The first OFT launchpad on LayerZero, live across 7 EVM chains. About $300K invested, 810 commits, 5,000 users at launch, and concurrency that holds when two users hit the same second.

SolidityLayerZero V2SubgraphNext.js

Omni-X

Co-Founder · 2022

The first natively omnichain NFT platform. Creator of Greg, the first onchain ONFT, and auditor of the original Gh0stly Gh0sts contract, the first omnichain NFT collection.

ONFTLayerZeroMarketplace

Rebuilt PPE supplier storefront landing page

Federal-scale PPE supplier

Solo Engineer · 2026

A modern storefront plus a signal-driven outbound engine over SAM.gov, OSHA, and FEMA data. Every lead lands enriched with affected-population estimates and SKU recommendations before the sales team wakes up.

Next.jsPostgresSignal pipelineVercel

More builds: a physics lab portfolio, a members-only social app, and me.md, a local-LLM digital twin →

What I do

AI agent systems

Agents that execute real actions under proof, not chatbots that describe them. Execution layers, observability, kill-switches, and the trust architecture that makes autonomy safe to ship.

Cross-chain and payments infrastructure

LayerZero V2, Circle CCTP, Visa settlement rails. OApp, OFT, and ONFT patterns that are battle-tested in production across 7 chains, not demoed once on testnet.

Founding-engineer product builds

The whole stack: contracts, backend, database, frontend, motion design, deploy, and the operational discipline to keep it alive. I have run this loop for 10 years.

How I work

Scope call.

30 minutes. You describe the problem, I tell you honestly whether I am the right builder and what I would do first.

Discovery sprint.

A short paid sprint that produces architecture, a build plan, and a demo slice. You own everything produced.

The build.

Weekly ships you can click, not status decks. Every claim verifiable in the repo.

Operate and harden.

Observability, kill-switches, and handoff docs. I build systems that survive me leaving.

Code that holds at 10K and 100K usersEvery flag kill-switchedIntent and execution are separate layersVerified against production schema, not the migration fileRisky paths ship observe-only first

I built my first application at 14. Over ten years of founding-engineer work later, seven of them running production systems, I have raised $750K across two projects, shipped a $300K cross-chain launchpad, co-founded the first omnichain NFT platform, and run a sole-proprietor venture to $20M in revenue in 2019. I graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers and advised its electrical engineering capstone team. I work daily with a personal AI neural net I designed, which is why I ship at the pace of a small team.

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