
Connolly developed and maintained core portfolio management and cross-chain DeFi infrastructure in the Agoric/agoric-sdk repository, delivering features such as multi-chain asset flows, robust fee management, and EVM integration. He engineered end-to-end deposit, rebalance, and withdrawal flows, emphasizing type safety and maintainability through extensive TypeScript refactoring and ABI modernization using the viem library. His work included dynamic fee parameterization, deterministic wallet deployment, and comprehensive test automation, addressing reliability and deployment challenges. By improving error handling, documentation, and developer tooling, Connolly enabled safer asset transfers and accelerated onboarding, demonstrating depth in backend development, smart contract engineering, and blockchain integration.

February 2026 monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focused on structural ABI modernization and documentation improvements to boost maintainability, interoperability, and growth readiness. The team executed a comprehensive migration to the viem ABI across protocol integrations and core contracts, and refined contributor guidelines. No major bugs fixed this month; the emphasis was on refactoring, standardization, and clear documentation to support faster onboarding and safer future deployments.
February 2026 monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focused on structural ABI modernization and documentation improvements to boost maintainability, interoperability, and growth readiness. The team executed a comprehensive migration to the viem ABI across protocol integrations and core contracts, and refined contributor guidelines. No major bugs fixed this month; the emphasis was on refactoring, standardization, and clear documentation to support faster onboarding and safer future deployments.
January 2026 highlights: Delivered end-to-end EVM deposit flow integration for Portfolio-contract in agoric-sdk, including deposits into existing portfolios, ABI GMP call batching, and GMP encoding, with supporting helper utilities (sameEvmAddress) and a typed GMP payload builder. Expanded test coverage for deposit flows and added documentation for EVM Wallet integration with Ymax Contract. Fixed key reliability gaps by reworking pendingTx shapes and ensuring evmHandler.withdraw and evmHandler.rebalance trigger executePlan, with additional tests and test-scope adjustments. Overall impact: more reliable cross-chain portfolio deposits, clearer developer guidance, and a more maintainable codebase that accelerates partner onboarding. Technologies/skills demonstrated: TypeScript/EXO conventions, EMH patterns, ABI encoding and GMP batching, robust test automation, linting, and documentation.
January 2026 highlights: Delivered end-to-end EVM deposit flow integration for Portfolio-contract in agoric-sdk, including deposits into existing portfolios, ABI GMP call batching, and GMP encoding, with supporting helper utilities (sameEvmAddress) and a typed GMP payload builder. Expanded test coverage for deposit flows and added documentation for EVM Wallet integration with Ymax Contract. Fixed key reliability gaps by reworking pendingTx shapes and ensuring evmHandler.withdraw and evmHandler.rebalance trigger executePlan, with additional tests and test-scope adjustments. Overall impact: more reliable cross-chain portfolio deposits, clearer developer guidance, and a more maintainable codebase that accelerates partner onboarding. Technologies/skills demonstrated: TypeScript/EXO conventions, EMH patterns, ABI encoding and GMP batching, robust test automation, linting, and documentation.
December 2025 monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focused on delivering robust transaction fee management, improved error handling for portfolio contracts, and enhanced debugging UX through RunJob error formatting. The work strengthened cross-chain testing reliability, USDC handling safeguards, and overall testing quality, delivering clear business value through more predictable fees, robust asset transfers, and faster issue resolution.
December 2025 monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focused on delivering robust transaction fee management, improved error handling for portfolio contracts, and enhanced debugging UX through RunJob error formatting. The work strengthened cross-chain testing reliability, USDC handling safeguards, and overall testing quality, delivering clear business value through more predictable fees, robust asset transfers, and faster issue resolution.
Concise monthly summary for 2025-11: Implemented portfolio flow rebalance and reliability features, enhanced wallet deployment tooling with deterministic addresses, improved account pre-computation, and expanded testing/observability. These changes deliver tangible business value through more accurate flow reporting, safer and more efficient transfers, safer deployment of wallet contracts, and faster debugging with better test coverage.
Concise monthly summary for 2025-11: Implemented portfolio flow rebalance and reliability features, enhanced wallet deployment tooling with deterministic addresses, improved account pre-computation, and expanded testing/observability. These changes deliver tangible business value through more accurate flow reporting, safer and more efficient transfers, safer deployment of wallet contracts, and faster debugging with better test coverage.
Month: 2025-10 — Agoric-sdk delivered significant portfolio-management enhancements, expanded test coverage, and targeted reliability improvements across cross-network deployments. Business value centers on streamlined user flows (deposit/rebalance/withdraw), safer token handling, and robust CI/CD readiness for cross-network deployments and CCTP/EVM integrations.
Month: 2025-10 — Agoric-sdk delivered significant portfolio-management enhancements, expanded test coverage, and targeted reliability improvements across cross-network deployments. Business value centers on streamlined user flows (deposit/rebalance/withdraw), safer token handling, and robust CI/CD readiness for cross-network deployments and CCTP/EVM integrations.
Sep 2025 for Agoric/agoric-sdk focused on delivering key features, stabilizing builds, and expanding testability across ymax/planner, ymax-tool, client-utils, and portfolio-contract. The month emphasized business value through reliable testable components, breaking-change readiness (policyVersion and contractAccount flows), and improved deployment hygiene. Substantial test infrastructure improvements underpinned state evolution capabilities, enabling safer migrations and future extensibility.
Sep 2025 for Agoric/agoric-sdk focused on delivering key features, stabilizing builds, and expanding testability across ymax/planner, ymax-tool, client-utils, and portfolio-contract. The month emphasized business value through reliable testable components, breaking-change readiness (policyVersion and contractAccount flows), and improved deployment hygiene. Substantial test infrastructure improvements underpinned state evolution capabilities, enabling safer migrations and future extensibility.
August 2025 performance summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk: Focused on reliability, security, and deployment efficiency across multi-chain flows. Delivered targeted fixes to reduce environment fragility, expanded test coverage, and established foundation for Alpha3/A3P work and wallet deployment tooling. See key achievements below.
August 2025 performance summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk: Focused on reliability, security, and deployment efficiency across multi-chain flows. Delivered targeted fixes to reduce environment fragility, expanded test coverage, and established foundation for Alpha3/A3P work and wallet deployment tooling. See key achievements below.
July 2025 monthly summary focusing on maintainability, reliability, and business value for portfolio operations in Agoric/agoric-sdk. The work this month delivered substantial feature refinements, rigorous type-safety improvements, and targeted fixes that reduce operational risk across multi-chain portfolios, while enhancing developer onboarding and testing fidelity.
July 2025 monthly summary focusing on maintainability, reliability, and business value for portfolio operations in Agoric/agoric-sdk. The work this month delivered substantial feature refinements, rigorous type-safety improvements, and targeted fixes that reduce operational risk across multi-chain portfolios, while enhancing developer onboarding and testing fidelity.
June 2025 focused on delivering core platform capabilities, expanding cross‑chain testing, and strengthening deployment and QA pipelines for the Agoric SDK. The month balanced rapid feature delivery with stability improvements across codegen, deployment tooling, and testing, enabling safer releases and better business outcomes. Key initiatives spanned proto/codegen for noble swap/lock, portfolio scaffolding and deployment, deploy-script tooling and pola-io packaging, VIEM integration and type-safety enhancements, and extensive multichain testing refinements.
June 2025 focused on delivering core platform capabilities, expanding cross‑chain testing, and strengthening deployment and QA pipelines for the Agoric SDK. The month balanced rapid feature delivery with stability improvements across codegen, deployment tooling, and testing, enabling safer releases and better business outcomes. Key initiatives spanned proto/codegen for noble swap/lock, portfolio scaffolding and deployment, deploy-script tooling and pola-io packaging, VIEM integration and type-safety enhancements, and extensive multichain testing refinements.
May 2025 monthly performance summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focusing on reliability of liquidity operations and test infrastructure. Delivered a robust fix for the DepositForBurn failure path to ensure liquidity pool repayment, introducing repayPool and tighter error handling in advanceFunds to prevent funds from getting stuck and to restore proper state on error paths. Strengthened test coverage and infrastructure by replacing deprecated test helpers, improving coverage reporting, and removing outdated test.todo markers to boost reliability and maintainability. These changes reduce production risk, improve liquidity safety, and accelerate QA cycles. Technologies demonstrated include advanced error handling, test tooling modernization, and maintainability improvements in TypeScript/JavaScript test suites.
May 2025 monthly performance summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focusing on reliability of liquidity operations and test infrastructure. Delivered a robust fix for the DepositForBurn failure path to ensure liquidity pool repayment, introducing repayPool and tighter error handling in advanceFunds to prevent funds from getting stuck and to restore proper state on error paths. Strengthened test coverage and infrastructure by replacing deprecated test helpers, improving coverage reporting, and removing outdated test.todo markers to boost reliability and maintainability. These changes reduce production risk, improve liquidity safety, and accelerate QA cycles. Technologies demonstrated include advanced error handling, test tooling modernization, and maintainability improvements in TypeScript/JavaScript test suites.
April 2025 performance highlights for Agoric/agoric-sdk. Focused on reliability, observability, and developer experience across multi-chain orchestration. Delivered cross-chain USDC transfer reliability, deployment robustness, CI/testing hygiene, and internal maintenance to improve API consistency and documentation.
April 2025 performance highlights for Agoric/agoric-sdk. Focused on reliability, observability, and developer experience across multi-chain orchestration. Delivered cross-chain USDC transfer reliability, deployment robustness, CI/testing hygiene, and internal maintenance to improve API consistency and documentation.
March 2025: Delivered cross-chain CCTP readiness in Agoric-sdk by enabling Solana address handling, introducing mint recipient tooling and tests, and hardening the test suite. These changes unlock Solana-based CCTP recipient flows, strengthen mint recipient verification, and reduce release risk through more robust test coverage.
March 2025: Delivered cross-chain CCTP readiness in Agoric-sdk by enabling Solana address handling, introducing mint recipient tooling and tests, and hardening the test suite. These changes unlock Solana-based CCTP recipient flows, strengthen mint recipient verification, and reduce release risk through more robust test coverage.
February 2025 monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focused on delivering high business value through speedier boot paths, stronger cross-chain testing, and more observable, maintainable policy and chain handling. The work spans core USDC improvements, boot/test harness enhancements, and cross-repo orchestration reliability, aligning technical milestones with platform readiness for mainnet operations.
February 2025 monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focused on delivering high business value through speedier boot paths, stronger cross-chain testing, and more observable, maintainable policy and chain handling. The work spans core USDC improvements, boot/test harness enhancements, and cross-repo orchestration reliability, aligning technical milestones with platform readiness for mainnet operations.
Month 2025-01 highlights: Delivered FastUSDC enhancements and expanded test coverage in Agoric SDK, with improved observability, reliability, and developer experience. Key outcomes include a functional CreatorFacet withdrawal method for FastUSDC, automated fee distribution via a core evaluation script, boot-time metrics snapshots, and broader test coverage (including multichain and performance tests). Also implemented security-friendly randomness injection, test hygiene improvements, and API refactors, alongside documentation updates to streamline onboarding and usage. Documentation and Dapps guidance were aligned with current resources to reduce onboarding friction.
Month 2025-01 highlights: Delivered FastUSDC enhancements and expanded test coverage in Agoric SDK, with improved observability, reliability, and developer experience. Key outcomes include a functional CreatorFacet withdrawal method for FastUSDC, automated fee distribution via a core evaluation script, boot-time metrics snapshots, and broader test coverage (including multichain and performance tests). Also implemented security-friendly randomness injection, test hygiene improvements, and API refactors, alongside documentation updates to streamline onboarding and usage. Documentation and Dapps guidance were aligned with current resources to reduce onboarding friction.
December 2024: Delivered a cohesive set of Fast-USDC enhancements and related infrastructure, modernized configuration and tooling, improved test stability, and advanced integration work. Major features include updates to the Fast-USDC feed policy, a policy update builder, and an operator attest CLI, alongside a comprehensive refactor of Fast-USDC config and imports for maintainability. Additional improvements centralized test utilities, aligned dependencies/docs with AGORIC_NET, and expanded wallet/vbank support. Fixed readPublished handling in Agoric CLI/Oracle, and improved test error handling to reduce cascading failures. Collectively, these changes increase reliability for governance and payments flows and accelerate policy-driven feature delivery.
December 2024: Delivered a cohesive set of Fast-USDC enhancements and related infrastructure, modernized configuration and tooling, improved test stability, and advanced integration work. Major features include updates to the Fast-USDC feed policy, a policy update builder, and an operator attest CLI, alongside a comprehensive refactor of Fast-USDC config and imports for maintainability. Additional improvements centralized test utilities, aligned dependencies/docs with AGORIC_NET, and expanded wallet/vbank support. Fixed readPublished handling in Agoric CLI/Oracle, and improved test error handling to reduce cascading failures. Collectively, these changes increase reliability for governance and payments flows and accelerate policy-driven feature delivery.
November 2024 performance: Focused on delivering business value around Fast-USDC, expanding test coverage, and strengthening reliability. Key outcomes include enabling liquidity operations in Fast-USDC, scalable CLI/config tooling, and improved test coverage across core eval, integration tests, and Noble USDC support, leading to safer deployments and faster iteration cycles.
November 2024 performance: Focused on delivering business value around Fast-USDC, expanding test coverage, and strengthening reliability. Key outcomes include enabling liquidity operations in Fast-USDC, scalable CLI/config tooling, and improved test coverage across core eval, integration tests, and Noble USDC support, leading to safer deployments and faster iteration cycles.
For October 2024, delivered performance tooling integration and computron counter instrumentation for the Agoric SDK, establishing a foundation for proactive performance analysis across runtime and tests. The work modularizes instrumentation, threads perf tooling through test setup, and enables environment-driven computron counting to support data-driven optimization of core operations like makeAccount and setPrice, aligning with the goal of reducing performance regressions and accelerating optimization iterations.
For October 2024, delivered performance tooling integration and computron counter instrumentation for the Agoric SDK, establishing a foundation for proactive performance analysis across runtime and tests. The work modularizes instrumentation, threads perf tooling through test setup, and enables environment-driven computron counting to support data-driven optimization of core operations like makeAccount and setPrice, aligning with the goal of reducing performance regressions and accelerating optimization iterations.
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