Christopher Gora

Thinking about self-improving agentic harnesses and conditional markets. DMs open.

Projects

Fated. A permissionless protocol for conditional markets — anyone can deploy markets that settle based on real-world outcomes.
Hyperlight. An enhanced API layer for the Lighter perp DEX — batch account queries, enriched WebSocket streams, and a historical data lake.
Anthropic Kernel Optimization Challenge. Beat the January 2026 Anthropic recruiting threshold (1487 cycles) on the published optimization challenge — currently 1130 cycles.

Writing

Situational Awareness 2026. A two-year retrospective on Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness, comparing each prediction against what's actually happened.
FTX Future Fund Lookback. A public index of the 39 project ideas the FTX Future Fund proposed in 2022: which have been solved, which are still open, and who's doing the work.
First public detection of the recent $300m KelpDAO rsETH exploit.
sUSDe vs USCC yield divergence examination.

I use AI heavily as a research and drafting collaborator.

Previously

Renzo Protocol (2024–2026) — Growth Analyst. Liquid restaking, DeFi lending integrations, and stablecoin credit.

Also: multi-time Chicago chess champion (youth); briefly a top competitive Clash Royale player.