ShikeLabs is Eric Shi's independent research and engineering notebook.
I study execution systems, distributed runtimes, zkVM architectures, and AI-native infrastructure. The work sits at the intersection of blockchain protocol design, distributed systems engineering, and complex systems thinking.
Research Focus
- Execution layer architecture and parallel execution systems
- zkVM runtime design and deterministic execution
- AI-native infrastructure and persistent agent systems
- Runtime observability, recovery semantics, and protocol lifecycle
How This Site Works
This site publishes long-form research essays, systems notes, and engineering artifacts. The goal is to make durable technical judgment visible: what complex infrastructure does, where it fails, and which abstractions survive contact with production systems.
Building in public here is not a marketing posture. It is a way to keep research claims attached to engineering reality.