Justin Bebis: From Fantom's' automatic harvesting 'to Robinhood Chain's AI market making Recently, if you have noticed @ justinbebis because of Pons, Mosh, or Bundle Cat, you may be curious: Where did this project party emerge from? First of all, he's not the Justin who sings' Baby '. This Justin's career path is more like that of an "old engineer" in blockchain finance: first researching how to make money run automatically, and then researching how to let AI take over these operations. To get to know him, we need to turn back a few years. 1/His starting point is writing code, not shouting order copy Justin Bebis is a self-taught programmer and the founder of Byte Masons. In 2022, the Fantom Foundation's official article introduced him. At that time, he had already participated in the development http://Reaper.Farm In the past year, I have undertaken technical consulting, architecture design, programming, or security engineering work in over ten software projects. In other words, many people's understanding of DeFi began with the question of 'how much this pool will age'. His job is to study how the contracts behind this pool operate. Fantom Official Character Introduction The name Byte Masons is also very appropriate: it can be understood as' the person who builds walls with bytes'. Others are busy discussing which building will rise, while he leads a team to study water pipes, circuits, and load-bearing walls. What he used to do is actually very close to old players First of all http://Reaper.Farm . This is a profit optimization project, with core functions including automatic reinvestment: collecting the profits generated by the strategy and reinvesting them. In words that old miners can understand, it is to hand over the repetitive labor of "harvesting vegetables, processing profits, and replanting" to the program for completion. You are responsible for deciding which piece of land to plant, and the machine is responsible for working according to the strategy. Reaper Open Code Speaking of Granary. This is a loan oriented project. According to Justin's own review, the Granary team found Byte Masons in 2021, and the two sides gradually developed from technical services to deep cooperation, involving development training, deployment management, and clearing infrastructure. So, the accurate statement is not 'all of these protocols were invented by him alone', but rather his team has been involved in the actual construction of DeFi products for a long time. Justin's Review of Granary There is another project that better reflects his ideas: Relic. Its public code repository directly lists Justin as one of the co designers and writers. This system can include the time of fund participation in reward allocation and use financial NFTs to represent underlying positions, so that transferring positions does not necessarily mean withdrawing underlying liquidity. Reliability Code and Design Description Translated into adult language: It not only depends on how much money you bring, but also on how long you are willing to stay. People who participate for a long time can receive different incentives compared to those who leave immediately after entering. This is not about 'changing the name of the pond and writing a bigger annualization', but rather adjusting the game rules. To understand his encryption philosophy, it depends on what problems he is always solving Putting these projects together, I would summarize his focus into three things: Can the funds be less idle? Can rewards encourage long-term participation? Can complex operations be handed over to the system? That's also why his resume doesn't read like a list of popular coins, but more like a record of on chain financial construction. Of course, there are also accidents in this record. In 2022, Reaper's multi strategy vault experienced a vulnerability incident, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.7 million. The team subsequently announced a review, recovery, and compensation plan. What can be confirmed here is the accident and follow-up plan, and the plan should not be directly written as fully compensated. The event records at that time His engineering experience includes both building systems and the reality that must be faced when the system encounters problems. Later, he began to find DeFi too difficult to use DeFi has a very comedic aspect: The promotion is about 'finance that everyone can use'. In practice, it feels like taking the "Browser Multi tab Management Qualification Exam". After a set of processes including finding agreements, looking at profits, exchanging assets, crossing chains, and adjusting positions... the profits have not been calculated clearly yet, so the computer fan starts working first. Conclave stated in an official introduction in 2024 that the team had already started working on it http://Usemoon.ai The motivation is to solve the barriers to the use of blockchain products and then advance this path to Cod3x. The goal is to combine AI and DeFi tools, using a more unified entry point to handle complex operations. Conclave's Introduction to Cod3x If the early work was to 'create financial instruments', this stage is: The tools have already been set up on the table, can we not require every user to read the user manual first? Currently, UV Labs aims to transition AI from "understanding finance" to "doing finance" Justin is currently the CEO of UV Labs. UV Labs Team Page Their current research focus is on enabling AI to better handle financial tasks that require continuous decision-making. There is an important difference here: Having AI explain what stop loss is and having it continuously manage a real position are two different things. The former is like a financial anchor, while the latter really has to work. According to UV Labs' product specifications, the infrastructure they are building includes calling different models, obtaining market information, executing trades, and checking rules such as position limits and risk exposures before execution. Simply put, it means equipping AI with a market screen, a control panel, and a set of rules and regulations that cannot be easily crossed. UV Harness Product Description They also emphasize a type of data: the decision-making process. It's not just about recording the rise and fall of prices, but also about what was seen at the time, why action was taken, which tools were used, and what the results were. This is very similar to a trading review: Just look at the delivery note to know how much a person has earned; Only by combining the entire process can we have the opportunity to understand how he actually did it. Introduction to UV Labs Decision Data From this perspective, his pursuit of AI is not something completely disconnected from his past DeFi experiences. I used to make tools, but now I am trying to assign a sustainable operator to the tools. This route has recently extended to Pons and Robinhood Chain Justin recently announced the new protocol Mosh on Pons. According to his introduction, Mosh wants to improve the risk return imbalance between bundled snipers and ordinary traders by equipping tokens with AI market makers; The first public experiment was Bundle Cat. At the time of release, he also stated that the complete platform will still be launched. This is a new project that is currently underway, not a mature conclusion that has already been fully validated. Justin's recent project introduction, public post mirroring Putting this matter back on his resume makes it easier to understand: Reaper researches how to automatically process profits. Reliquary studies how to change reward allocation. Cod3x and UV Labs are researching how to involve AI in financial operations. Mosh has pushed the application of AI to the specific scenario of new currency trading and market making. It seems that the project name has changed several times, but the underlying issues are very coherent: Can the way funds operate be changed through code and mechanism design? So, how should we remember this person? I would understand Justin Bebis as a "mechanism and engineering driven" crypto entrepreneur. The most useful way to get to know him is not to first ask 'which coin he withdrew today', but to see which rule he tried to change, which step he reduced, and what these ideas ultimately led to. His story goes from a profit tool in the Fantom era, all the way to financial AI, and then to market making experiments on new chains. To conclude with a slightly down-to-earth sentence: Others are researching how to reduce their workload. Justin has been researching how to make code and AI do more work over the years.