ElioJordanLopes

I studied computer science at Vellore Institute of Technology and spent a lot of that time building outside class. I led web projects on the ACM-VIT board, won a Facebook SparkAR scholarship in 2020, and wrote three research papers.

One of them came straight out of a hackathon project: a live-streaming service where viewers pay by the second, on Ethereum and IPFS. Springer published it in Wireless Networks.

In 2021 I started taking paid work and entering hackathons, often at the same time. I built React Native dashboards for Vidrona in the UK and wrote smart contract tests for Footium, a football management game on Arbitrum.

Two hackathon projects from that year won prizes. NiftySubs, the pay-by-the-second streaming platform, won a Protocol Labs prize at ETHGlobal HackMoney. DAOInsure, crop insurance run by a DAO with a weather oracle I wrote, won Chainlink, Filecoin and Superfluid prizes at ETHIndia.

In September 2021 I co-founded IntoTheVerse with Ramesh Sachan, my batchmate and friend from university: a game studio building on public blockchains. We were one of 6 teams picked out of 30 for Celo Camp Batch 4, raised from Flori Ventures and angel investors, and incorporated in Delaware in January 2022.

I was CEO and CTO, which meant product, engineering and hiring. The team grew to 16 people working remotely, and we shipped games on Solana, Eclipse, Monad, Aptos, Algorand and Celo.

IntoTheVerse took 1st place in the games track at Aptos Hack Singapore, where I presented the studio on stage. Cryptara Conquest took 1st place in the games track at the Solana Speedrun Game Jam. Intrant Inferis, our story-driven dungeon RPG for mobile, took 1st in the games track at the Solana Bonkathon, organised by Radiants DAO.

We showed Intrant Inferis as a pre-alpha at Solana Breakpoint 2023 in Amsterdam, ran live playtests there, and launched it on mainnet in June 2024. MetaMeadow Boomtown, a town builder where caring for trees retires real carbon credits, won a Celo Foundation grant.

Across more than 15 hackathon wins and grants, the studio raised over $250K without giving up any equity.

In January 2025 we launched Cryptara Conquest in the browser on Eclipse mainnet. It's a survival shooter that runs fully on-chain: a Unity client, Rust programs written with Anchor, and MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollups so the game can keep up in real time. I led the Unity client and the game design.

These are the numbers from its first six weeks.

In June 2026 Cryptara Conquest came to Android through the Solana dApp Store for Seeker. Getting there meant fixing problems below the game, so I did it in the open: four merged contributions to MagicBlock's Solana.Unity-SDK, which brought the Solana Mobile Stack natively into Unity and put me 4th among the repository's contributors.

On the game itself, I fixed a mainnet bug that had corrupted 94% of legacy session accounts, restored the leaderboard entries it damaged, and formally verified the program's safety rules with more than 100 theorems.

The studio also shipped Sushi Nads that year, a cooking game on Monad where every delivery is scored on-chain. I wrote its contracts, its gasless backend and its Unity web3 layer.

Terrace is a football prediction app for friends. You post a take in a match chat, and it becomes a bet your mates can back or fade, alongside 1v1 challenges, parlays and private leagues. I'm building all of it myself, from the Solidity contracts and Chainlink settlement to the app.

I also published terrace-mcp, an open-source server that lets two people's AI assistants bet each other on a match, straight from the terminal.