About
Four years ago I went deep on decentralised finance. I joined Astroport, the leading DEX on Terra, as a backend engineer in 2022 and ended up leading the project for two years — expanding it across five chains and handling protocol R&D. In late 2025 I founded Monorail, a swap aggregator on Monad, and I’m now building Signal as part of it — a prediction-market trading terminal for live sports.
The thread through all of it: clarity, restraint, and a result that feels effortless to use.
Selected Work
2026 — Present
Monorail’s live trading terminal for football prediction markets.
Built for trading during the match — live probabilities, event-linked trades, and one-tap action on the moments that move the market.
End-to-end build: product conception, design, indexing, integration, and trading.
2025 — Present
Swap aggregator on Monad.
Routes traders to the best execution across 24 protocols through a novel synthetic orderbook aggregation model — the top native swap aggregator on Monad, $22M traded in the first four months with zero incentives.
End-to-end build: routing logic, execution engine, frontend, and a consistent visual language across the product surface.
2022 — 2025
The leading DEX on Terra, expanded across the Cosmos ecosystem.
Joined as a backend engineer in March 2022, when Astroport was Terra’s largest AMM at ~$190M peak daily volume. Continued building through the Terra collapse and took over leading the project in late 2023. Over the next two years, expanded Astroport across five chains. Multi-chain Protocol R&D, governance, treasury operations, and a long-running engineering team.
Philosophy
I build for people working under pressure — traders, operators, anyone whose choice has a cost. Reliability has to be earned by the time they click.
Experience
2020 — 2022
Medical platform architecture, compliance systems, and engineering leadership.
2018 — 2021
Distributed cryptocurrency systems, blockchain tooling, and protocol-level engineering on an open-source cryptocurrency.
2016 — 2020
Next-generation personalised video at scale — architecture, team expansion, international rollouts.
2013 — 2015
Online travel-crowdfunding platform. 500k users in two months; WSJ + LA Times coverage.
Contact
What are we building next?
ds@donovansolms.com