Matías Falcone | Senior Full Stack Engineer, Blockchain & AI Agents

Philosophy

Autonomy Needs Accountability

"The more autonomy we give AI agents, the more we need to verify what they do. Blockchain makes agent actions verifiable, and banking-grade engineering makes them safe. Twenty years in payment systems taught me that trust is something you build in, not something you add later."

Chains I've Built On

Cardano

Midnight

Ethereum

Polygon

BSC

Algorand

Preferred Stack

JavaScript TypeScript Solidity Next.js Node.js React PostgreSQL AWS Vercel

Journey

20 years of building and leading in tech

Jul 2024 - Present

Full Stack Engineer @ Animoca Brands

Built the entire backend for Motorverse (Node.js, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, AWS) and delivered Portal, an ecosystem for developers to create assets and games using AI agents, end to end. Owned architecture, infrastructure and production deployments.

Oct 2020 - Present

Founder & Lead Engineer @ AdaSouls

Building an economic coordination layer for AI agents, using blockchain for agent identity, payments and trust. Delivered Catalyst-funded soulbound token, ZK identity and governance tooling, plus smart contract and backend work for Web3 clients.

2020 - Present

Cardano Stake Pool Operator @ Falcon Stakepool

Running production block-producing and relay nodes on Cardano mainnet: monitoring, upgrades, key management and security hardening. Also an active DRep in on-chain governance.

Mar 2022 - Jun 2024

Full Stack Engineer @ Grease Monkey Games

Built the Node.js backend for Torque Drift 2 that unlocks players' on-chain cars and parts in-game. Designed all the Solidity contracts on Polygon and managed their external security audit to completion.

Jul 2010 - Feb 2020

Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead @ Santander Tecnología

Core banking payment systems (COBOL, DB2): direct debit, collections and interbank transfers. Led the transfers team of 15 engineers on business-critical, high-availability systems in a regulated environment.

May 2007 - Jun 2010

Programmer @ IBM and EDS (an HP Company)

Development of banking applications for financial-sector clients (COBOL, DB2).

Featured Projects

The main projects I'm building and leading

Autonomous World ZK

ALDEA WORLD

An autonomous world exploring the frontiers of onchain games and fully decentralized, player-owned experiences.

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AI Agents Payments Identity

AdaSouls

Identity, trust and economic infrastructure for AI agents: wallets, payments, assets and smart-contract capabilities, with programmable control over what agents are allowed to do.

View on GitHub