VladimirMaslyakov
co-founder & cto — blum · web3, ai & the street
Twenty years of building things that trade, think, and occasionally sing.
Co-founder and CTO of Blum. Two decades across high-frequency trading, blockchain, and machine learning — now spent building the parts of crypto and AI that run themselves. Two studios do the shipping. Off the clock it's a Ricoh GR in one pocket, an e-gravel bike, a boat when there's wind, shelves of ambient records, and a black cat the internet knows as robocat.
Work
Off the clock
Dostoevsky and Castaneda in the same stack — Russian moral weather, Yaqui sorcerers, and cosmic sci-fi. The Brothers Karamazov, the Don Juan cycle, The Rose of the World.
Tarkovsky on repeat — Stalker, Solaris, The Mirror. Bergman's Persona, Kubrick's 2001. Cinema that dissolves the self.
CRPGs and soulslikes — Baldur's Gate 3, The Witcher 3, Dark Souls — and Disco Elysium, one detective's slow-motion breakdown.
Ambient and drone that barely holds a pulse: Stars of the Lid, Biosphere, Tim Hecker, William Basinski, Jon Hopkins. noise · drone · kosmische.
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