About

One trunk, many branches

Yggdrasil Digital is a one-person engineering studio and product house, by design, named after the world-tree of Norse myth. The consulting practice is the roots; the studio is the trunk; the ventures are the branches. No layers and no hand-off to juniors, because there is no one to hand off to: the person who co-invented a top-5 chain’s consensus protocol is the person who designs your system and writes the code. I take on web3, fintech and autonomous-systems work that demands depth, and reinvest that craft into products built to leave standing in the world.

Founder

Alex Werner

Full-stack engineer and blockchain specialist. 12+ years across web, mobile and decentralized systems; 9+ years in fintech, crypto and DeFi. Co-invented the ChainLocks consensus protocol, holds a US patent for object-validated blockchain accounts, and has contributed to projects measured in the hundreds of billions. Active CTF and bug-bounty practitioner since 2013.

12+
years full-stack
9+
years in fintech
$350B+
in projects touched
1
US patent
Track record
2016–2021

Dash Core Group, Lead Backend → Principal DashPay

Led backend development for a top-5 cryptocurrency (~$10B mcap), co-invented the ChainLocks consensus protocol, architected DAPI, and led the SDK and DashPay wallet teams.

2018–2021

Zebitex, Koinju & Subterminal: exchange, data & DeFi

Built exchange and market-data infrastructure for a French crypto exchange (Zebitex), institutional crypto-data systems (Koinju), and standardised exchange APIs and DeFi platforms. The fintech foundations behind today’s work.

2022 →

Yggdrasil Digital: studio & RWA protocol work

Founded the studio. Architecture and core engineering for a $100M-TVL RWA protocol (gold & housing), event-driven systems for a national electrical-grid operator, plus protocol and DeFi work for clients.

Now

Scintilla & the product house

Building Scintilla Network alongside a growing family of products (Citadea, Kandlfeed, Windfehu, Stateward and more) while delivering senior RWA and web3 work.

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