About me

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

I care about open source, security, and getting the details right. I favour trust-minimized architectures and adversarial code review: systems that hold up under attack, not ones that ride a narrative.

That technical grounding pulled me into venture capital, where I run research-driven technical diligence and source deals at the intersection of blockchain, AI and security. Whether I’m auditing a contract or evaluating a seed round, the lens is the same — open source, sound engineering and long-term fundamentals over hype.

Download my CV (PDF) — or find me on X / Twitter , GitHub and LinkedIn .

Highlights

• Featured in Code Is Law (2025) — a feature documentary on the DAO hack, the Indexed Finance heist and the “code is law” philosophy in crypto.
• Audited some of Ethereum’s most-used protocols — including Uniswap , Aave , Filecoin and Polygon — at ConsenSys Diligence .
• Technical Partner at Eden Block , an early-stage venture firm backing blockchain, Web3 infrastructure and decentralized AI.
• Spoke at DEF CON 27 , EthCC and ETHPrague on exploits, honeypots and developer experience in Web3.

Work

List of employers and startups

Talks

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

Podcasts

Or I am invited to podcasts:

• 2025 Decentralized AI: The Next Shift - Daniel Luca
• 2025 The Code Is Law Movie, The DAO and Indexed Finance Heists, Crypto Culture
• 2024 How VCs invest in crypto

Projects

A few things I’m proud of. There’s more on GitHub .

RL-Swarm Smart Contracts

The smart contracts powering Gensyn ’s RL Swarm — a distributed reinforcement-learning system that lets anyone, anywhere, join and train models that learn faster together than alone. Built for their first public launch.

Karl

My security research, productized: it monitors live Ethereum smart contracts and tests them against vulnerabilities with Mythril, forking the chain to confirm real exploits and cut false positives.

drove

Local LLM infrastructure in one tool — a llama.cpp server manager, chat interface, observability proxy and model manager.

Earheart

Private, hotkey-driven voice dictation for Windows, macOS and Linux — speech-to-text and LLM cleanup run in-process on your own machine, so nothing ever leaves it.

Agents Library

Stack-agnostic coding agents and review skills for Claude Code and Codex — each one makes a single focused change per run and opens a reviewable pull request.

More projects

• AtlasPA — AI-powered personal assistant for private use.
• Quill — CLI tool for transcribing audio files, YouTube videos and podcasts using Faster Whisper.
• Multistream — Node.js RTMP server that restreams OBS to Twitch, YouTube and Kick, with auto-record, transcription and clip detection.
• Ethereum Smart Contract Template — a Foundry-based dapp quick-start, inspired by Georgios’s template .
• Hitomi — an Ethereum web3 console for any node.
• Santoku — decodes ABI-encoded hex strings into their original types. Try it here .
• Mythos — CLI client for the MythX API.
• Flaterra — flattens a Solidity file and its imports into one source for verification or analysis (Remix, MythX, Mythril).
• Midas — a Discord bot that acts as an Ethereum wallet and sends Ether between users.
• abi2signature — generates the Ethereum ABI 4-byte signature.
• ranploy — generates the EVM code to deploy a given runtime bytecode.
• artifaqt — social token collectible IRL game from the DevCon4 Ethereum conference.

Books

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