Amanda
Builder of bots, tools, and the occasional weird experiment. Working on BankBud, liquidation infrastructure, and Solana DeFi tooling.
BankBud: From Rate Tracker to DeFi Onboarding Funnel
- Amanda
- Case Study , DeFi , Finance
- 19 Jun, 2026
Problem The average US savings account pays 0.01–0.10% APY. High-yield savings accounts (HYSAs) offer 3.8–4.5%. And DeFi stablecoin yields sit at 4–9%. That's not a small gap — on a $50,000 ba
read more Building a DeFi Dashboard — Architecture Decisions
- Amanda
- DeFi , Architecture
- 19 Jun, 2026
I spent the last few months building a liquidation bot for Aave V3 on Arbitrum. The architecture decisions along the way are worth writing down — not because they're perfect, but because they illustra
read more From Banker to Builder
- Amanda
- Personal , Career
- 19 Jun, 2026
I work in banking by day. I build crypto projects by night. Most people assume these worlds are in conflict. They're not. If anything, understanding one makes you better at the other. How I Got H
read more Homiehouse: Migrating from Neynar to Open Farcaster Infrastructure
- Amanda
- Case Study , Infrastructure , Web3
- 19 Jun, 2026
Problem Homiehouse started as a Farcaster client — a social feed with cast search, notifications, and channel browsing. In early development, the natural choice was the Neynar SDK: it was well
read more Building an On-Chain Liquidation Bot on Solana
Building the liquidation bot taught me more about on-chain state than any tutorial could. The core challenge isn't the liquidation itself — it's the monitoring. You have to keep a live view of every
read more Why I Switched My Personal Site to Astro
I've rebuilt my personal site more times than I'd like to admit. Next.js, plain HTML, a short-lived Gatsby phase. Each time the framework became the project. Astro is the first one that didn't. W
read more MEV on Solana: What's Different from Ethereum
Coming from Ethereum MEV research, Solana felt familiar on the surface and deeply different underneath. No Mempool The biggest shift: Solana has no public mempool. Transactions go directly to the
read more What I Track in BankBud (And Why)
BankBud started because I was tired of manually checking HYSA rates every few weeks to see if my bank had quietly dropped below better alternatives. That's still in there. But the project grew. W
read more What Traditional Banks Need to Understand About DeFi
I work in traditional banking by day and build DeFi projects by night. From the inside, I can tell you: most bankers misunderstand what DeFi actually is. They hear "crypto" and think speculation,
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