I am Daniel Luca (aka CleanUnicorn), based in Bucharest, Romania, a self-taught software engineer, Ethereum security auditor and investor working in the blockchain space since 2017.

With a deep passion for open-source technologies, security, and Artificial Intelligence, I bring a practitioner’s mindset to every project. I prioritize trust-minimized architectures and rigorous code reviews to ensure systems hold up under real adversarial conditions, rather than relying on short-lived narratives.

This deep technical foundation eventually pulled me into venture capital, where I now operate at the intersection of blockchain, AI, and security. I focus on research-driven technical due diligence and deal sourcing, utilizing my background as a Blockchain Architect to support founders well beyond the initial check. Whether I am auditing code or evaluating a seed round, my philosophy remains rooted in open-source technologies and long-term fundamentals. I am committed to building and backing resilient, secure solutions that drive the industry forward through sound engineering practices.

Work

List of employers and startups

Talks

Sometimes, I give talks about things that I find interesting.

Podcasts

Or I am invited to podcasts:

Projects

Rag-brain

Portable private AI memory built as a vector database and MCP server, easily pluggable into chatbots.

Quill

Command-line tool for transcribing audio files, YouTube videos, and podcasts using Faster Whisper.

Karl

Monitors smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum network and tests against vulnerabilities with Mythril. Reduces false positives by forking the blockchain and testing the exploit.

RL-Swarm Smart Contracts

This repository contains the smart contracts for the Reinforcement Learning Swarm for Gensyn ’s first public launch with a project which lets anyone, anywhere, join and participate in a distributed reinforcement learning system that learns faster together than alone.

Multistream

A Node.js RTMP server that receives streams from OBS and restreams them to multiple platforms simultaneously like Twitch, YouTube, Kick. Has features to automatically record and transcribe, identifies clippable moments and helps generate short clips.

Ethereum Smart Contract Template

This development quick start template is heavily inspired by Georgios’s template . Over time it was migrated to use foundry since dapptools was deprecated.

Hitomi

Yet another Ethereum web3 console for any node.

Santoku

It decodes ABI encoded hex strings into the original types. Try it here .

Mythos

Mythos is a CLI client for the MythX API.

Flaterra

Flaterra parses the provided Solidity source file and adds any other imported files. This is useful if you want to upload your source code to a block explorer for verification, use it with Remix or to run analysis on it, for example with MythX or Mythril .

Midas

A Discord bot that acts as an Ethereum wallet and facilitates sending Ether between users.

abi2signature

Generates the Ethereum ABI 4 byte signature.

ranploy

Generates the EVM code to deploy the specified runtime bytecode.

artifaqt

Social token collectible IRL game part of the DevCon4 Ethereum conference.

Books

I like science fiction, fantasy, comic books, philosophy and psychology. Some of the books I enjoyed:

  • Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
  • The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  • Mistborn Series by Brandon Sanderson
  • Watchmen by Alan Moore
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
  • The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
  • Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Choose Yourself by James Altucher