Jay Albert

Product, engineering, and developer relations. New York City.

Work

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MIP-0014 reference implementation
BuildSep 2026Midnight

MIP-0014 reference implementation

A working reference for the Native Unshielded Token Standard: a fungible asset that lives as unshielded UTXOs on the ledger, publicly valued and owned by an address.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer Tools

The Layerworks storefront, with the capsule slab in its 3D viewer and the dimension callouts
BuildAug 2026

Layerworks Print Co. storefront

The shop front for a small-batch 3D print business: a featured product with an interactive GLB preview and a commissions intake, deployed to Pages by Actions.

Consumer & Commerce

The Family Affairs join screen, with the family artwork and the four-letter room code flow
BuildAug 2026

Family Affairs

A competitive family battle card game for two to six players, played live on their own phones.

Gaming

The main room at Hack Buenos Aires from the back, a talk on the stage screen and the tables full under the hexagon ceiling
TalkAug 2026Midnight

Hack Buenos Aires

Kicked off the event, mentored the teams, and ran the judging. 26 projects shipped and every one of them compiled, a first in Midnight history.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer Tools

The Midnight Improvement Proposal Process
WritingAug 2026Midnight

The Midnight Improvement Proposal Process

How protocol changes get made: problem statements name an issue, improvement proposals answer it, and the token standards walk that path.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer Tools

Fireside Dev Hang: Nightpass & Midnight Skills
StreamJul 2026Midnight

Fireside Dev Hang: Nightpass & Midnight Skills

Two projects on privacy-preserving tooling: Nightpass, proving battery-passport compliance without revealing business data, and Midnight Skills.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer Tools

Fireside Dev Hang: Mobile dApps on Midnight
StreamJun 2026Midnight

Fireside Dev Hang: Mobile dApps on Midnight

Kuira Labs on their Android SDK: why it was built, what developers get out of the box, and live demos of mobile applications running on Midnight.

Blockchain & Web3

The Midnight Leaderboard running on preprod, with the click challenge and live entries
BuildMay 2026Midnight

Midnight Leaderboard

An arcade-style leaderboard where the player decides how they appear: anonymous, as a wallet address, or under a name they choose.

Blockchain & Web3, Gaming

The ecosystem icon from the Midnight blog banner set, the image this post publishes
WritingMay 2026Midnight

Partner sprints on Midnight

How the tri-weekly partner sprints run: two weeks of quests, a working dApp at the end, prizes funded by the partner.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer Tools

Hilo Hack Demo Day
StreamMay 2026Midnight

Hilo Hack Demo Day

Teams showing what they built on Midnight across AI, identity, healthcare and finance. Four-minute demos, each followed by live questions.

Blockchain & Web3

Locker rental example
BuildApr 2026Midnight

Locker rental example

A locker whose four-digit combination never reaches the chain. Opening it proves the combination matches without revealing the digits.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer Tools

Midnight Tip Jar
BuildMar 2026Midnight

Midnight Tip Jar

A minimal tip jar: connect a Lace wallet, read balances, and send transfers through the DApp Connector API.

Blockchain & Web3

The implications of NIGHT and DUST for developers
WritingJan 2026Midnight

The implications of NIGHT and DUST for developers

Midnight splits the value token from the one that pays for transactions. What that separation buys a developer, worked through end to end.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer Tools

Fireside Dev Hang with Erick from Mesh
StreamJan 2026Midnight

Fireside Dev Hang with Erick from Mesh

Building dApps on Preview with the MeshJS starter template, an overview of gaming on Midnight, and a new MCP server.

Blockchain & Web3

Fireside Dev Hang with Ben Beckmann
StreamDec 2025Midnight

Fireside Dev Hang with Ben Beckmann

NIGHT and DUST for developers: a discussion with Ben Beckmann and Lauren Lee on what the two-token design means for people building on the network.

Blockchain & Web3

Fireside Dev Hang, November 12 2025
StreamNov 2025Midnight

Fireside Dev Hang, November 12 2025

Building privacy-ready dApps with Arweave and NMKR: what Ar.io is and how it powers privacy-focused apps, and how NMKR adds a privacy layer to NFTs.

Blockchain & Web3

Fireside Dev Hang, November 5 2025
StreamNov 2025Midnight

Fireside Dev Hang, November 5 2025

Building and deploying on Midnight end to end: project setup, writing a contract, deploying it to testnet, and interacting with it once it is there.

Blockchain & Web3

Fireside Dev Hang, October 15 2025
StreamOct 2025Midnight

Fireside Dev Hang, October 15 2025

A Hacktoberfest session on open source, Midnight's contributions and MIPs, and how to get involved.

Blockchain & Web3

The hackathons icon from the Midnight blog banner set
WritingOct 2025Midnight

Hacktoberfest contributor guide

What was open to contribute to during Hacktoberfest, from documentation through contracts and core libraries, and what a qualifying PR looked like.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer Tools

Fireside Dev Hang, September 10 2025
StreamSep 2025Midnight

Fireside Dev Hang, September 10 2025

Why NFTs matter and what is available for them: the NFT module library covering standard NFTs and zkNFTs, dApp examples, and a live ticket review.

Blockchain & Web3

Mini DApp Hackathon Showcase
StreamAug 2025Midnight

Mini DApp Hackathon Showcase

A live showcase of the projects built during the Midnight Mini DApp virtual hackathon.

Blockchain & Web3

The Prompt2Flow interface, showing prompt discovery and automation workflows
BuildJul 2025

Prompt2Flow

A platform for discovering, running, and publishing automated prompt workflows. Single prompts or chained flows for text, code, and image generation.

AI, Developer Tools

Lilypad pitch for the IoTeX competition
TalkMay 2025Lilypad Network

Lilypad pitch for the IoTeX competition

Competitive pitch for IoTeX's Crypto's Got Talent, seeking $500,000 in funding. The presentation became core fundraising material for Lilypad Network.

AI, Blockchain & Web3

The Internet Is the New Culture
WritingApr 2025

The Internet Is the New Culture

An argument that infrastructure, not geography, now shapes culture: the same apps and algorithms produce the same behaviours city to city.

Civic & Social, AI

The VibeCheck community comparison interface
BuildApr 2025

VibeCheck

A wiki-style app that compares communities and surfaces collaboration opportunities between them. Built on Lilypad as part of a weekly build series.

AI, Blockchain & Web3

The Web3 Game Mechanic Generator GPT interface
BuildApr 2025

Web3 Game Mechanic Generator

A custom GPT that turns smart contract methods into game mechanics and demo concepts, so game designers can read a contract as a design space.

AI, Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

Building RAG agents on Lilypad
TalkMar 2025Lilypad Network

Building RAG agents on Lilypad

A live build showing retrieval-augmented agents running on a decentralised compute network, from embedding through to retrieval.

AI, Blockchain & Web3

Sir Croaksworth, a frog in a top hat, roasting a wallet history
BuildMar 2025

Sir Croaksworth's Roast DApp

A pretentious frog banker reads your wallet history back to you and is unkind about it. Paste an address, get roasted on your trading decisions.

Blockchain & Web3, AI

CollabHubs Community Spotlight article featuring Jay Albert
WritingMar 2025

CollabHubs builder of the month

A community spotlight write-up covering the Web3, AI, and blockchain gaming work over the preceding year.

Blockchain & Web3, AI

Lilypad at Crypto's Got Talent
TalkMar 2025Lilypad Network

Lilypad at Crypto's Got Talent

Pitched decentralised AI infrastructure to a judging panel, competing for $500,000 in funding.

AI, Blockchain & Web3

Lilypad frontend workshop
TalkFeb 2025Lilypad Network

Lilypad frontend workshop

A hands-on workshop building interfaces against a decentralised compute network, coded live with the room following along.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer Tools

Twitter Space on AI integration in gaming
StreamFeb 2025WEB3M

AI integration in gaming

How AI is changing game development and player experience, and what that means for teams building in Web3.

AI, Gaming

Twitter Space on the future of Web3 gaming
StreamFeb 2025WEB3M

The future of Web3 gaming

Where Web3 gaming is heading and which of the trends were actually holding up.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

Stream banner showing the Moddio game engine
StreamJan 2025ChainSafe Gaming

Moddio game engine

How Moddio is building AI-assisted game development tooling, and its funding model through indie.fun. Published as "Game Dev Made Easy: Fast Tools, Fun Creations, Funded Dreams".

Gaming, AI

Discover Games platform stream
StreamJan 2025ChainSafe Gaming

Discover Games and Whalepass

A walk through a platform bridging Web2 and Web3 gaming, including its battle pass tooling and engagement mechanics.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

Farworld AI gaming stream
StreamJan 2025ChainSafe Gaming

Farworld

Farworld turning chat apps into gaming adventures, and where AI fits in a game production pipeline.

Gaming, AI

ChainSafe stream banner with David Amor, Martin Maurer, and Jay Albert
StreamDec 2024ChainSafe Gaming

Playermint and player-owned chains

A decentralised gaming model where every player runs their own chain instead of sharing global state.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3Write-up

Rock paper scissors workshop screenshot
TalkDec 2024ChainSafe Gaming

Rock paper scissors on-chain

A workshop building a blockchain-backed game in Unity, using Chainlink VRF for verifiable randomness.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

ChainSafe Gaming SDK updates stream
StreamNov 2024ChainSafe Gaming

ChainSafe Gaming SDK update

Presented the release of ChainSafe's web3.unity SDK updates and demonstrated token streaming live.

Gaming, Developer ToolsWrite-up

Hatchyverse platform overview
StreamOct 2024ChainSafe Gaming

Hatchyverse

A gaming ecosystem where the community builds games on shared IP, and what that does to licensing.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

TruWorld stream showcase
StreamOct 2024ChainSafe Gaming

TruWorld

An AR geolocation game combining real-world exploration with on-chain items. Pokemon Go with a ledger.

Gaming, AR & VR

Twitter Space on Web3 game publishing
StreamOct 2024WEB3M

A guide to publishing games in Web3

What developers actually need to work through before shipping a game into the Web3 ecosystem.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

CLUAIDO AI detective game stream
StreamSep 2024ChainSafe Gaming

CLUAIDO

An AI detective game where players interrogate model-driven suspects to solve procedurally generated cases.

Gaming, AI

Quantum Command stream
StreamSep 2024ChainSafe Gaming

Quantum Command

A shooter that reshapes its maps in response to how players move and what they carry.

Gaming

Twitter Space on the rise of Web3 gaming
StreamSep 2024WEB3M

The rise of Web3 gaming

Which Web3 games were actually finding players, and what the successful ones had in common.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

HackFS winner stream
StreamJul 2024ChainSafe Gaming

HackFS winning project

The HackFS winner: a PvP battle game combining Monaverse maps with the ChainSafe SDK.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

HyperPlay and Coinracer stream
StreamJul 2024ChainSafe Gaming

HyperPlay and Coinracer

A look at HyperPlay as a launcher for blockchain games, featuring Coinracer.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

The Loot GDC campaign artwork
BuildApr 2024ChainSafe Gaming

Loot GDC

A lootbox scavenger hunt across the GDC venue and online. Players claimed boxes from QR codes without knowing they had just created a wallet.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

Twitter Space on Web3 security
StreamApr 2024

Security best practices in Web3

Practical security habits for Web3 developers and users, focused on what actually loses people their assets.

Blockchain & Web3

Twitter Space on responsible gaming
StreamApr 2024

Responsible gaming in Web3

Frameworks for player wellbeing when the game has real money in it, and where the industry keeps getting it wrong.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

Twitter Space on Web3 game design
StreamMar 2024ChainSafe Gaming

Rewriting the rules of game design

Which traditional game design principles survive contact with on-chain ownership, and which do not.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3

A code editor showing React components for Lilypad Network
WritingDec 2023Lilypad Network

Lilypad frontend guide

A developer guide for standing up and customising a Lilypad Network frontend, written to cut the setup time for new builders.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer ToolsWrite-up

The Lilypad Network lily pad logo
WritingDec 2023Lilypad Network

Lilypad Network

Work on a distributed compute network, focused on developer experience and the documentation that shapes it.

Blockchain & Web3, Developer ToolsWrite-up

A circular logo with an M in the middle and coloured clouds beneath
BuildOct 2023

The Machine Dreams

An art project that generates a new piece every hour from whatever is trending on Google in the US, then mints it.

AI, Music & Art, Blockchain & Web3

Covalent Twitter Space on gaming analytics
StreamMay 2023

Gaming analytics and growth

A conversation with Covalent on how data actually feeds game development and retention decisions.

Gaming

Web2 to Web3 game development workshop
TalkFeb 2023ETHDenver

Web2 to Web3 game development workshop

An ETHDenver workshop taking an existing game and wiring it up to a chain, start to finish, in front of the room.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3Write-up

A 3D model of a black shirt with the Mix3d logo on the front
BuildDec 2022Mix3d

Mix3d Clothing

A clothing line out of the Mix3d community, designed in 3D and given an AR layer so the print could be scanned.

AR & VR, Consumer & Commerce, Blockchain & Web3Write-up

A visualisation comparing DNS and ENS
WritingOct 2022

Understanding ENS

A guide to the Ethereum Name Service, its parallels with DNS, and why naming is the part of Web3 adoption people underrate.

Blockchain & Web3

Two overlapping blue circles forming a shape like an S
WritingOct 2022

Exploring Web3 finance

Notes from investing through DeFi tooling while working alongside traditional finance organisations.

Finance, Blockchain & Web3Write-up

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A view of the invisible maze in Decentraland
BuildJan 2022Mix3d

Invisible Maze

A maze you cannot see, built to walk newcomers through connecting MetaMask and finding their way around Decentraland.

Gaming, Blockchain & Web3Write-up

BuildJan 2022

Mix3d

A community for people learning and building in Web3. Grew past 100 members, many of whom moved into roles at Coinbase, Protocol Labs, and elsewhere.

Blockchain & Web3Write-up

Smilesssvrs NFT artwork from the trade
WritingDec 2021

Hunting for art

A walkthrough of executing a peer-to-peer NFT swap safely, using a Smilesssvrs trade as the worked example.

Blockchain & Web3, Music & Art

A graph comparing crypto interest rates to traditional banking
WritingMay 2021

Crypto banking guide

A guide to earning interest through crypto banking platforms and stablecoins, with the risks stated plainly.

Finance, Blockchain & Web3

The Werewolf sign-in screen with the title in a blood-letter font
BuildSep 2020

Werewolf

The social deduction game, played over webcams in a browser.

GamingWrite-up

A pottery vase icon
BuildAug 2020

Grace Potter

An e-commerce storefront for handmade pottery, built end to end including checkout.

Consumer & CommerceWrite-up

A phone over a map with icons marking mobile vendors
BuildAug 2020

Mobile Vendor

A platform connecting street vendors to nearby customers, with live location on a map.

Consumer & CommerceWrite-up

A blue business card printed with a quote from Robert Greene
BuildApr 2020

Thought Card

A business card that unfolds in AR. Scanning it opens links, video, 3D objects, and scenes off a single printed image.

AR & VRWrite-up

The Wix logo
BuildMar 2020

Wix freelance practice

A run of client sites built on Wix, grown entirely on word of mouth. Scoping, building, and handover.

Consumer & CommerceWrite-up

An illustration of a body head-first in a toilet, titled 'Blotto'
BuildJan 2020

Blotto

A drinking card game, built as a proof of concept for shipping Unity titles to the Google Play store.

GamingWrite-up

The host for this one has since gone away, so the link no longer resolves.
A leaf logo with lines across it like a circuit board
BuildOct 2019

LiveIn

A real estate brokerage that used augmented reality to let prospective buyers walk a property before visiting it.

AR & VR, Consumer & CommerceWrite-up

Piano keys against a background of musical notes
BuildDec 2017

Augmented piano lessons

Projection-based piano tuition that turns the keyboard itself into the interface and the lesson into a game.

AR & VR, Music & ArtWrite-up

A low-poly street corner
BuildAug 2017

Traffic Jam VR

Built over a three-day VR game jam with a team assembled from strangers. Shipped playable on Vive and Daydream.

AR & VR, GamingWrite-up

A logo of two blue lines with a red line behind them, shaped like a staple
BuildJan 2017

The Fourth Branch

Plain-language summaries of bills in Congress, with a vote of your own that you can hold against how your representative voted.

Civic & SocialWrite-up

A painted mural of a person in a hat with the name 'Ferle' beneath
BuildOct 2014

Memorial website

A site built to hold a relative's music, photographs, and story in one place that outlasts a hard drive.

Civic & Social, Music & ArtWrite-up

A mechanical engineering mockup of an iPhone in a case
BuildJul 2014

Customisable phone case

A phone case for the early-2010s iPhone that swapped its face plate and carried a battery, so it could be restyled without being replaced.

Consumer & CommerceWrite-up