Luis Soares

After 23+ years engineering systems for tier-1 banks (Credit Suisse, UBS) and architecting DeFi protocols securing $1B+ in TVL, I’m opening up my bandwidth for strategic advisory and protocol architecture consulting. My focus: SVM/EVM interoperability, MEV-aware design, and ZK-proofs. I help founders and engineering teams ship capital-efficient, exploit-resistant infrastructure. Code is a commodity. Judgment is a career. DMs are open.

Most cross-VM bugs aren't in the VM. They're in the seam — the assumptions each side makes about finality, ordering, and who owns a piece of state. Engineer the seam first. The opcodes are the easy part.

EVM assumes sequential, globally-ordered state. SVM is built around parallel execution and explicit account access. Bridge that naively and you don't get a slow system. You get one that's occasionally, silently wrong.

People treat "EVM on SVM" like a porting problem. It isn't. The hard part was never the opcodes. It's that the two machines disagree about *when a thing is true.*

AGI has been achieved externally

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@udalnamsieduda Yeah, yeah, 100%. And I think on the flip side, it has also a lot to do with how companies are falling into a trap of treating code as commodity and tacitly expecting devs to double or even triple their delivery because now AI coding is institutionalized.

@luishsoares Definitely GenAI gives you a boost in many places, but I even caught myself not caring anymore about quality, code duplication etc or even security as long as it works. Though that work was internal. For external work I spend a lot more time - but gains still are significant.

The old career deal — trade your time, get security back — is dead. The top 10% already swapped it for a new one: trade value for relevance. Security is given to you and can be taken away. Relevance you build yourself — and it compounds. 🧵

@udalnamsieduda I wouldn't claim that straightaway - I have seen careless coders ship sh**t fast, but they won't last long, and good coders can deliver undeniably faster than ever with AI.

@luishsoares Well right, but that also means whoever gets a job does not give a damn about quality. Why would you do that ?

Full article by @ThomasOppong 👇 thomas-oppong.medium.com/this-is-how-th…

Bottom line: don't optimize for a safe job. Optimize for being undeniable. The job may disappear. The relevance travels with you. Distilled from a sharp piece by @ThomasOppong 👇

So the top 10% run themselves like a business of one: → Pick problems worth solving → Ship work people can see → Build skills AI amplifies, not erases → Own a network that doesn't vanish with a layoff email

The next nine-figure exploit won't be clever code. It'll be a correct system faithfully executing a trust assumption no human ever consciously chose. Audit your defaults like an attacker reads them. Code is a commodity. Judgment is a career.

LayerZero eventually owned it — apologized, killed 1/1 configs, moved defaults to ≥5 verifiers. Right fixes. $292M late.

$292M gone from Kelp DAO on April 18. Largest DeFi hack of 2026. Lazarus Group. And not one line of code was broken. The contracts did exactly what they were written to do. That's the terrifying part. 🧵