Built by Practitioners

BlockchainRL requires a rare combination of deep DeFi protocol expertise, reinforcement learning infrastructure knowledge, and hands-on agent systems experience. Our team has built across all three.

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John Pearson, Ph.D.

Founder

Web3: Built Maverick Protocol v1 and v2 from scratch -- the exact wagmi/viem/ABI/indexer stack that BlockchainRL environments simulate. 4 production DeFi apps shipped. Deep knowledge of ABI quirks, approval sequences, and onchain edge cases.
AI: Built a 100+ agent engineering swarm with role-scoped subagents, parallel coordination, and facilitated multi-agent dialogue -- pushing the frontier of agentic systems.
Ph.D. Mathematics (Georgia Tech, Best Thesis Award) / Dartmouth '02
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Bob Baxley, Ph.D.

Target Co-founder / Advisor

Web3: CTO of Maverick Protocol, designing and shipping automated market makers at the protocol level.
ML/Signal Processing: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with focus on signal processing and machine learning. Reward engineering is signal processing -- his core domain.
Entrepreneurship: Co-founded Bastille Networks ($45M raised).
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

The Rare Combination

Building RL environments for blockchain requires expertise that almost never exists in a single team. We bring all three.

DeFi Protocol Engineering

Smart contracts, MEV, multi-protocol operations, ABI-level knowledge from years of production DeFi development.

RL / ML Infrastructure

Environment design, reward engineering, training pipeline integration -- the infrastructure AI labs need.

Agent Systems

Multi-agent orchestration, role-scoped coordination, and production agentic architecture at scale.

13+ companies build RL environments. Zero target crypto. The missing ingredient is domain expertise.

Building the Future of AI Agent Training

We are looking for exceptional people who want to define how AI agents learn to operate onchain.

RL Researchers

Environment design, reward shaping, curriculum learning

Blockchain Engineers

EVM internals, DeFi protocols, smart contract security

Agent Developers

LLM tooling, multi-agent systems, inference infrastructure

Advisors & Backers

Coming soon. We are in active conversations with leading crypto VCs and AI lab advisors.