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Drewstone

Drew Stone engineered core infrastructure and advanced features for the tangle-network/gadget repository, focusing on secure multi-tenancy, EVM-native blockchain integration, and robust pricing and payment systems. He applied Rust and TypeScript to develop modular APIs, CLI tooling, and authentication flows, including OAuth 2.0 JWT and Paseto-based access control. His work included end-to-end testing, dependency management, and CI/CD automation, ensuring reproducible builds and reliable deployments. By migrating to EVM-only architecture and introducing GPU and TEE support, Drew improved scalability and security. His contributions demonstrated depth in backend development, cryptography, and cloud integration, resulting in a maintainable, production-ready platform.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

73%Features

Repository Contributions

216Total
Bugs
44
Commits
216
Features
116
Lines of code
2,205,463
Activity Months16

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Work History

April 2026

22 Commits • 9 Features

Apr 1, 2026

April 2026 monthly summary for tangle-network/gadget. Delivered key CI and publishing improvements, expanded platform capabilities, and strengthened security and code quality, while laying groundwork for new pricing and notification features. Notable outcomes include a hardened crates publishing workflow, broader GPU provisioning support, an ingress based on IETF Payment Authentication (MPP), and Gen 2 quality improvements that reduce risk and improve developer velocity. The work focused on business value through reliable release pipelines, extensible platform capabilities, and robust governance of dependencies and security.

March 2026

36 Commits • 15 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 performance summary: Delivered major security and platform advancements across Gadget and DApp, enabling production-grade TEE hardening, GPU-assisted execution, and migration enablement to EVM, while strengthening release automation, governance, and documentation. Key outcomes include first-class TEE support across Blueprint SDK and cloud components, GPU requirements integrated into execution profiles, a migration-to-EVM path with shielded payments and credit accounts in DApp, and robust release/dependency processes reducing risk and accelerating cadence. Technologies demonstrated include Rust-based TEE backends, Attestation/KeyExchange flows, Kubernetes GPU integration, EVM tooling, harness PR gates, and CI/CD automation.

February 2026

23 Commits • 17 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 focused on stabilizing the gadget workspace while expanding pricing, payment, and external integration capabilities. Major changes included a breaking repo-wide rename from tangle-evm to tangle, significant CI/test harness hardening, and a broad set of new features across pricing, webhooks, and x402 payment flows. The work also included core bindings upgrades and ongoing improvements to testing utilities and documentation to support faster delivery of blueprint operators and on-chain integrations.

January 2026

42 Commits • 13 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical outcomes for tangle-network/gadget. Delivered significant CLI enhancements and dependency modernization, alongside stability improvements and documentation updates that collectively accelerate onboarding, reduce deployment risk, and improve maintainability during the v2 migration.

December 2025

63 Commits • 44 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 monthly summary for tangle-network/gadget: End-to-end EVM-native Tangle migration completed, with infrastructure, job extractors, and producer/consumer patterns implemented; Keystore updated for EVM-only mode; aggregation and gossip primitives introduced; extensive Anvil-based testing and CI enhancements; multiple refactors to remove substrate dependencies and improve performance.

November 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 monthly summary for tangle-network/gadget. Focused on two primary streams: (1) stabilizing and reproducing dependency management to ensure deterministic builds and easier publishability; (2) strengthening test infrastructure and code quality to accelerate reliable releases. Key outcomes include updating substrate dependencies to crates.io versions and refreshing Cargo.lock for reliability; reorganizing tests with a directory-based blueprint layout and enhancing platform-specific hypervisor runtime checks; and improving code comments formatting. These changes reduce install variability, improve cross-environment consistency with polkadot-sdk stable2503, and enhance maintainability and developer velocity.

October 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly summary for tangle-network/gadget: Delivered complete EigenLayer integration into the blueprint manager and CLI with AVS management, enabling multi-AVS support per operator and aligning with eigensdk-rs v2.0.0. Implemented new AVS lifecycle commands (registration, deregistration, listing, synchronization, rewards management), strengthened test infrastructure, and updated documentation. This work accelerates operator onboarding, improves rewards tracking, and tightens integration with core SDKs, delivering measurable business value.

September 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Sep 1, 2025

2025-09 Monthly summary for tangle-network/gadget: Delivered OAuth 2.0 JWT Bearer Assertion support with two example blueprints, enhancing authentication security and enabling multi-tenant data separation and scope-based access control. Implemented signature verification and replay protection, and added comprehensive unit and integration tests for the OAuth implementation and examples. No major bugs fixed this month; focused on security, reliability, and test coverage to enable production readiness and future scalability.

August 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 summary for tangle-network/gadget: Delivered a Multi-Tenancy Authentication System with a Three-Tier Token Architecture, significantly strengthening security and scalability for multi-tenant deployments. Replaced legacy tokens with a robust model using API Keys and Paseto Access Tokens, featuring cryptographic tenant binding, header validation, and PII protection, along with token exchange and persistent key management. This work lays the foundation for enterprise onboarding, tenant-specific policy controls, and improved security posture.

June 2025

1 Commits

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 - tangle-network/dapp: Focused on UI reliability and bug fixes with measurable business value. Delivered a targeted UI fix in Wallet dropdown to truncate long account names, preventing layout breakage and ensuring consistent display across devices. Completed code changes in the Wallet dropdown component and related styles; commit ea915643abc786085af089115b4387dc1847ef4c (Fix long account name layout, #3030). Business impact includes reduced user confusion, smoother wallet interactions, and lower potential support tickets related to UI issues. Technologies/skills demonstrated: React component design, CSS truncation, Git version control, issue-driven development, UI testing and code reviews.

May 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025: Delivered the Cloud Credits Claiming Flow in the Tangle DApp, enabling users to view and claim available cloud credits by linking their account ID. Implemented a dedicated button and modal, plus new hooks for fetching credit data and executing the claim transaction, and integrated UI components for a seamless user experience. Commit reference: 9a530cf62d98a2d661b01b03c9c4cf69b7ece733 (feat: integrate cloud credits (#3021)).

April 2025

4 Commits • 4 Features

Apr 1, 2025

Month: 2025-04 | Repository: tangle-network/gadget Concise monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements: 1) Key features delivered - Eigenlayer Client Enhancements: major upgrades including APIs for strategies and allocations, testnet config updates, and a new AVS blueprint example. - Signature Aggregation Protocol Module: initial implementation with gossip networking extensions and updated dependencies to support cryptographic functionality. - Messaging and Peer Management Enhancements: subscribe/unsubscribe for network topics, whitelist-based peer manager refactor, participant ID retrieval by local verification key; updated tests and dependencies. - Pricing Engine and Networking Updates: introduced the pricing engine with related networking updates, dependency bumps, and new crates to support robust pricing mechanisms. 2) Major bugs fixed - No major bugs recorded in the provided data for this month. 3) Overall impact and accomplishments - Substantial expansion of core capabilities enabling more flexible asset strategies and deployments (Eigenlayer client), enhanced cryptographic tooling (signature aggregation), improved network topology and security (peer management and topic subscriptions), and a foundation for automated pricing and market mechanics (pricing engine). - Accelerated development velocity through targeted API surface area expansions, updated dependencies, and testnet/config support. 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated - Advanced Rust-based module development, cryptography integration, gossip-based networking, whitelist-based access control, testnet configuration, and crate dependency management. Business value: reduces deployment friction for strategy tooling, strengthens network reliability and security, and enables more accurate, scalable pricing strategies across services.

February 2025

7 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary: Delivered major architecture and developer-experience wins across gadget and dapp. Gadget overhauled P2P networking with libp2p, mDNS, and Kademlia, and generalized key support for BLS381 and EVM addresses, improving peer discovery, connection management, and interoperability. Added EVM implementation, contract support, Anvil testing utilities, and CLI improvements for contract deployment and container startup, with readiness for Eigenlayer integration. Enhanced the blueprint protocol with basic summation gossip, new message types, parsing helpers, and expanded tests, plus testing utility refactors and BlueprintRunner improvements. Tangle Cloud on dapp migrated from Next.js to Vite, updating build config, routing, and component imports for a faster, leaner dev stack. These efforts collectively improve cross-network interoperability, development velocity, testing coverage, and business value through faster deployments and broader contract tooling support.

January 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 performance snapshot for the engineering team. Delivered foundational restructuring and documentation improvements with clear business value. Major work focused on Rust project architecture and documentation accuracy across two repositories.

December 2024

1 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly summary for tangle-network/gadget: Delivered binary download capability and enhanced CI/test infrastructure. Refactored the Tangle node runner to support both local and downloaded binaries. Integrated the tnt-core-bytecode crate for dynamic bytecode retrieval. Updated CI workflows and test utilities to align with the new binary distribution flow. These changes enable reproducible deployments, faster iteration, and improved test coverage, reducing manual setup and enabling safer production rollouts.

November 2024

6 Commits • 2 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Month 2024-11 focused on delivering maintainable platform improvements for tangle-network/gadget and expanding data access capabilities. Main work centered on internal platform cleanup and modernization, plus API data retrieval enhancements. The work improved test reliability, CI/CD maintainability, and data accessibility, driving faster iteration and clearer operator data flow.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness91.2%
Maintainability86.4%
Architecture89.8%
Performance85.4%
AI Usage44.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashCSSGoJSONJavaScriptMarkdownPythonRustShellSolidity

Technical Skills

API DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI SecurityAPI designAPI developmentAPI integrationAnvilAsynchronous ProgrammingAuthenticationAxumBackend DevelopmentBlockchain DevelopmentBlueprint ManagementBuild System Management

Repositories Contributed To

3 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

tangle-network/gadget

Nov 2024 Apr 2026
14 Months active

Languages Used

RustSolidityYAMLShellMarkdownPythonTOMLGo

Technical Skills

API DesignBlockchain DevelopmentBlueprint ManagementBuild SystemsCI/CDCode Organization

tangle-network/dapp

Feb 2025 Mar 2026
4 Months active

Languages Used

CSSJavaScriptTypeScriptBashMarkdownSolidity

Technical Skills

Build Tool MigrationFrontend DevelopmentReactRefactoringViteAPI Integration

0xPlaygrounds/rig

Jan 2025 Jan 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

Rust

Technical Skills

Documentation