
Liviu Ciulinaru contributed to the LedgerHQ/ledger-live repository over 11 months, delivering 25 features and resolving 13 bugs focused on cryptocurrency swap workflows. He engineered cross-platform improvements in swap navigation, fee management, and error handling, using TypeScript, React Native, and JavaScript. Liviu enhanced reliability by refactoring navigation state, optimizing API integrations, and introducing structured error systems that improved user feedback and reduced crashes. His work included integrating new swap providers, strengthening CI/CD pipelines, and extending blockchain support. Through code hygiene, robust testing, and configuration management, Liviu consistently improved maintainability, release stability, and user experience across desktop and mobile platforms.

January 2026: Ledger Live swap reliability and navigation improvements in LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Delivered two integrated efforts focused on stability, performance, and maintainability of the swap workflow: - Bug fixes: enhanced error handling and error parsing for swap operations, ensuring clearer user-facing errors, proper DrawerClosedError handling without wrapping, and added tests to verify error propagation. - Feature: swap navigation state optimization by switching from account objects to account IDs, improving efficiency and clarity of the swap flow.
January 2026: Ledger Live swap reliability and navigation improvements in LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Delivered two integrated efforts focused on stability, performance, and maintainability of the swap workflow: - Bug fixes: enhanced error handling and error parsing for swap operations, ensuring clearer user-facing errors, proper DrawerClosedError handling without wrapping, and added tests to verify error propagation. - Feature: swap navigation state optimization by switching from account objects to account IDs, improving efficiency and clarity of the swap flow.
December 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live focused on reliability, governance, and platform extensions. Delivered a new swap provider (CIC v2) with improved error handling and config, strengthened end-to-end reliability for checkout and swaps, and tightened code ownership governance to streamline reviews and releases. Results include fewer checkout failures, faster code reviews, and more robust error handling across swap flows.
December 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live focused on reliability, governance, and platform extensions. Delivered a new swap provider (CIC v2) with improved error handling and config, strengthened end-to-end reliability for checkout and swaps, and tightened code ownership governance to streamline reviews and releases. Results include fewer checkout failures, faster code reviews, and more robust error handling across swap flows.
November 2025 (LedgerHQ/ledger-live): Delivered targeted stability and reliability improvements across swap, fees, and analytics. Key outcomes include a structured swap error handling system, fixes to Fees Drawer transaction updates, hardened analytics resilience, maintenance fixes for combined swap, and expanded test coverage for SOL→BTC swaps. These changes reduce user-facing crashes, improve developer efficiency, and strengthen business value by delivering smoother swap experiences and clearer telemetry.
November 2025 (LedgerHQ/ledger-live): Delivered targeted stability and reliability improvements across swap, fees, and analytics. Key outcomes include a structured swap error handling system, fixes to Fees Drawer transaction updates, hardened analytics resilience, maintenance fixes for combined swap, and expanded test coverage for SOL→BTC swaps. These changes reduce user-facing crashes, improve developer efficiency, and strengthen business value by delivering smoother swap experiences and clearer telemetry.
Ledger Live – 2025-10: Stabilized release pipelines, simplified account logic, and improved LiFi transaction reliability. Key outcomes include: 1) CI/CD workflow enhancements with E2E workflow_call triggers, test-token handling, and robust checkout/config defaults that improved CI reliability and test stability. 2) Refactor: Removed unused token list from default account selection to streamline account determination and reduce complexity. 3) Gas limit improvement for LiFi transactions: added 30% gas buffer and introduced customGasLimit to ExchangeSwapParams, with documentation clarifying gas-related issues and recommended practices. These efforts reduced release risk, improved success rates for cross-chain interactions, and clarified operational behavior for developers and users.
Ledger Live – 2025-10: Stabilized release pipelines, simplified account logic, and improved LiFi transaction reliability. Key outcomes include: 1) CI/CD workflow enhancements with E2E workflow_call triggers, test-token handling, and robust checkout/config defaults that improved CI reliability and test stability. 2) Refactor: Removed unused token list from default account selection to streamline account determination and reduce complexity. 3) Gas limit improvement for LiFi transactions: added 30% gas buffer and introduced customGasLimit to ExchangeSwapParams, with documentation clarifying gas-related issues and recommended practices. These efforts reduced release risk, improved success rates for cross-chain interactions, and clarified operational behavior for developers and users.
September 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Delivered user-focused enhancements and backend robustness. Implemented swap flow navigation improvements to stabilize quotes handling and enable back navigation from quotes to the form; added Kaspa chain support with robust custom fee handling; completed internal refactorings and code hygiene improvements, aligning wallet API types for combinedSwap. These changes enhance UX, broaden blockchain support, and reduce technical debt, enabling faster delivery of future features.
September 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Delivered user-focused enhancements and backend robustness. Implemented swap flow navigation improvements to stabilize quotes handling and enable back navigation from quotes to the form; added Kaspa chain support with robust custom fee handling; completed internal refactorings and code hygiene improvements, aligning wallet API types for combinedSwap. These changes enhance UX, broaden blockchain support, and reduce technical debt, enabling faster delivery of future features.
Month: 2025-08 — LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Delivered cross-platform exchange improvements with a focus on accuracy, stability, and UX. Key deliveries included: (1) Swap improvements: introduced precision-safe amountInAtomicUnit handling using BigNumber and corrected account name display, boosting swap reliability and user clarity (commits 23cd7596d34692e5ca75b1aebaedb7c8d5f34927; fc06c6b6339b7a6a545cc78271811910853acbbf). (2) Promise lifecycle management for exchange flows across Web and Mobile: implemented tracking and cleanup to cancel pending promises on navigation, reducing race conditions and improving stability (commits 59bd882f44a787968cd83f6dd63f670d62f0db9c and c2d7d2a92824f118d2693a8ad8f2f802020130ce; includes related revert). (3) Platform Exchange Drawer close handling: added onClose callback and DrawerClosedError-based error handling to ensure drawer-close scenarios reject with consistent errors (commits 135838104c2cd9f75c0a586866b027a2be23624c; c51590ec40140d7a657bb8d84920dfd7d3b4ddbb).
Month: 2025-08 — LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Delivered cross-platform exchange improvements with a focus on accuracy, stability, and UX. Key deliveries included: (1) Swap improvements: introduced precision-safe amountInAtomicUnit handling using BigNumber and corrected account name display, boosting swap reliability and user clarity (commits 23cd7596d34692e5ca75b1aebaedb7c8d5f34927; fc06c6b6339b7a6a545cc78271811910853acbbf). (2) Promise lifecycle management for exchange flows across Web and Mobile: implemented tracking and cleanup to cancel pending promises on navigation, reducing race conditions and improving stability (commits 59bd882f44a787968cd83f6dd63f670d62f0db9c and c2d7d2a92824f118d2693a8ad8f2f802020130ce; includes related revert). (3) Platform Exchange Drawer close handling: added onClose callback and DrawerClosedError-based error handling to ensure drawer-close scenarios reject with consistent errors (commits 135838104c2cd9f75c0a586866b027a2be23624c; c51590ec40140d7a657bb8d84920dfd7d3b4ddbb).
July 2025 performance summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live. This month focused on delivering reliable swap flows, clearer cost visibility, and significant code health improvements. The work extended across feature delivery, bug fixes, and improvements that drive business value by increasing reliability, transparency, and developer velocity.
July 2025 performance summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live. This month focused on delivering reliable swap flows, clearer cost visibility, and significant code health improvements. The work extended across feature delivery, bug fixes, and improvements that drive business value by increasing reliability, transparency, and developer velocity.
June 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live: Delivered cross-platform swap feature improvements, enhanced data integrity for swap history exports, and introduced user-consent analytics controls. Focused on provider naming consistency, analytics flag in webviews, and correct token account associations in CSV exports across desktop and mobile. These changes improve reliability, compliance, and business insights.
June 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live: Delivered cross-platform swap feature improvements, enhanced data integrity for swap history exports, and introduced user-consent analytics controls. Focused on provider naming consistency, analytics flag in webviews, and correct token account associations in CSV exports across desktop and mobile. These changes improve reliability, compliance, and business insights.
Month: 2025-05 | LedgerHQ/ledger-live Key feature delivered: Swap Webview offline handling and error management enhancements. Consolidated improvements to the swap webview: handle offline state by hiding webview, improved manifest loading error handling, ensure webview reloads when hash changes, and simplified error reporting for load failures in both desktop and mobile implementations. Major bugs fixed: Hardened swap webview reliability by addressing offline behavior and error cases; improved manifest memo handling to reduce retry failures. Impact and accomplishments: Increased swap reliability across desktop and mobile, reduced user friction during flaky network conditions, and smoother navigation state correlation via automatic webview reloads. These changes contribute to higher swap completion rates and improved user trust in the app’s stability. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Cross-platform webview management, offline-first UX improvements, robust error handling and reporting, manifest loading strategies, code refactoring to simplify error handling and remove unused state, and adherence to commit hygiene (changeset and refactors).
Month: 2025-05 | LedgerHQ/ledger-live Key feature delivered: Swap Webview offline handling and error management enhancements. Consolidated improvements to the swap webview: handle offline state by hiding webview, improved manifest loading error handling, ensure webview reloads when hash changes, and simplified error reporting for load failures in both desktop and mobile implementations. Major bugs fixed: Hardened swap webview reliability by addressing offline behavior and error cases; improved manifest memo handling to reduce retry failures. Impact and accomplishments: Increased swap reliability across desktop and mobile, reduced user friction during flaky network conditions, and smoother navigation state correlation via automatic webview reloads. These changes contribute to higher swap completion rates and improved user trust in the app’s stability. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Cross-platform webview management, offline-first UX improvements, robust error handling and reporting, manifest loading strategies, code refactoring to simplify error handling and remove unused state, and adherence to commit hygiene (changeset and refactors).
March 2025 performance summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live focused on delivering UX improvements, API enhancements, and code quality improvements that directly drive user value and release reliability. Key outcomes include an UX-driven navigation change for swap flows, a parallel Wallet API extension, smarter swap account search with flattened accounts, precise error messaging for swap-related failures, and ongoing release hygiene to support predictable delivery.
March 2025 performance summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live focused on delivering UX improvements, API enhancements, and code quality improvements that directly drive user value and release reliability. Key outcomes include an UX-driven navigation change for swap flows, a parallel Wallet API extension, smarter swap account search with flattened accounts, precise error messaging for swap-related failures, and ongoing release hygiene to support predictable delivery.
February 2025 Ledger Live: Implemented major UX and reliability improvements across swap workflows and WebView, delivering business value through clearer navigation, optimized fees workflow for LLM integrations, and improved release traceability across platforms. This work enhances user confidence in swaps, reduces friction in fee selection, and strengthens cross-platform consistency.
February 2025 Ledger Live: Implemented major UX and reliability improvements across swap workflows and WebView, delivering business value through clearer navigation, optimized fees workflow for LLM integrations, and improved release traceability across platforms. This work enhances user confidence in swaps, reduces friction in fee selection, and strengthens cross-platform consistency.
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