Nighttime view of a historic stone castle tower with a wooden roof, windows with red and white shutters, and a large flag hanging on the side, surrounded by snow.

FASTQ_iT

FASTQ Integrity Toolkit : Cryptographic integrity verification for FASTQ files using Merkle DAGs + barcoding

The concept of applying Merkle Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) for the cryptographic integrity verification of large-scale genomic data like FASTQ and BAM files is an emerging area, often discussed in the context of blockchain and decentralized storage solutions for sensitive data. The use of Merkle structures and barcoding offers potential advantages over traditional checksum methods like MD5 or SHA-256 in managing the dynamic and large nature of these files.

Spencer Ding

Mental Score

Zero-knowledge proofs ensure individual responses remain private while enabling aggregate insights

Workplace mental health issues create massive productivity losses, but traditional assessment methods fail due to privacy and compliance concerns. Zero-knowledge proofs ensure individual responses remain private while enabling aggregate insights (JTIE 2024), Blockchain technology eliminates single points of failure and data breaches (JTIE 2024).

Spencer Ding, Dmitry Sukhikh

Submitted to Midnight Summit Hackathon (London) - Nov 19 2025

Passengers at Heathrow Airport gate A18 waiting to board a British Airways flight to Zurich, with an electronic flight information display and an emergency exit sign visible.
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Roll The Credits

Roll The Credits combines traditional steganography techniques with deep learning to securely hide sensitive information (like crypto wallet recovery phrases) in media files. The project offers multiple encoding methods, from simple image manipulation to advanced neural network-based approaches.

Winner of Hardhat - Best Projects built using Hardhat 3

Winner of Flow - Best Killer App on Flow 2nd place

Vitalik Marincenko, Spencer Ding, William He

Submitted to ETHGlobal Cannes - Jul 06 2025

Boarding passes, ETHGlobal Cannes lanyard with name tag Spencer Ding, and a ZKPassport with tickets on top.
Animated illustration of a man with glasses and a mustache holding a lobster against a blue sky with clouds, with the title 'The Lobster' and a Cannes Film Festival logo.
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Griffin Pledge

A flowchart diagram illustrating a blockchain and payment system. It includes sections for front host, MCP client and server, privacy, wallet, base, and Tron. The front host handles deposit and withdrawal of funds. MCP client communicates with server which contains various agents like hedge fund strategies, risk management, market intelligence, and blockchain order execution. Privacy components include Google OAuth, Paymaster, and a wallet with ERC4337. The system supports crosschain atomic swaps and employs 1inch Fusion+ & limit order. The base and Tron sections connect through lending protocols like Aave.

To design a reverse crowdfunding app using World Mini App where

users contribute to vote on wishes.

Winner of World Pool Prize

Lukas Pottner, Spencer Ding

Submitted to ETHGlobal Taipei - Apr 06 2025