Alchemist

Web3 engineer focused on making Web3 product usable.

Building projects, exploring Defi and documenting what I have built and learnt along the way.

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

I came across a prayer somewhere, and since then, my mind unconsciously goes back to it in moments of reflection. The prayer goes like this:

“God show me how good it can get, surprise me with opportunities I never expected, connect me with people I never knew I needed, take me to rooms I never imagined going on my own, help me to leave survival mode and start living in growth mode, I releases every fear that keeps me attached to unproductive struggle, may my past not interfere with my future and may fear not hold me back from doing great things. Let me work in your light. Amen”

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

An event can be fully funded on paper and still lack money when bills are due.

Sponsors pay late. Funds arrive across chains. A caterer needs a deposit. WhatsApp screenshots become the ledger.

Pact gives each event its own account. Sponsors fund from supported chains; the event receives USDC on Monad. Organisers can see what's arrived, what's committed and what's safe to pay.

One real flow from our demo:

A sponsor opens the event funding link , no Pact account needed , chooses Stellar and sends 2 XLM from the wallet they already use. Via @auroraisnear's Intents API, NEAR Intents routes and converts the 2 XLM. 0.38 USDC lands in the event's Monad account. Pact verifies the transfer before counting it as received.

The organiser creates the agreement: work, amount and due date, then signs with a passkey.

The vendor signs in with Google, chooses USDC on NEAR, enters codexjames.near and accepts with a passkey.

No wallet extension or seed phrase.The organiser allocates $0.20 from funds that have actually arrived and authorises the payout. @near_intents routes USDC from Monad to NEAR. Pact shows "Routing" until delivery is verified, then marks it "Paid".

The vendor receives USDC in codexjames.near. No one manually bridges assets.

The demo uses real transfers, not mocked states: Stellar → Monad, Arbitrum → Monad, Monad → Arbitrum, Monad → Base and Monad → NEAR.

Pact is for conferences, hackathons, festivals and meetups. It shows organisers what's promised, received, allocated and safe to pay.

Built at NEAR HACKATHON. @NEARProtocol #NEARHackathon

Try it: https://t.co/d1kpJpCYPs
Repo: https://t.co/8yUhR85LMQ

Built at NEAR HACKATHON #NEARHackathon

@NEARProtocol @NearBuilders @NEARLegion

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

An event can be fully funded on paper and still lack money when bills are due.

Sponsors pay late. Funds arrive across chains. A caterer needs a deposit. WhatsApp screenshots become the ledger.

Pact gives each event its own account. Sponsors fund from supported chains; the event receives USDC on Monad. Organisers can see what's arrived, what's committed and what's safe to pay.

One real flow from our demo:

A sponsor opens the event funding link , no Pact account needed , chooses Stellar and sends 2 XLM from the wallet they already use. Via @auroraisnear's Intents API, NEAR Intents routes and converts the 2 XLM. 0.38 USDC lands in the event's Monad account. Pact verifies the transfer before counting it as received.

The organiser creates the agreement: work, amount and due date, then signs with a passkey.

The vendor signs in with Google, chooses USDC on NEAR, enters codexjames.near and accepts with a passkey.

No wallet extension or seed phrase.The organiser allocates $0.20 from funds that have actually arrived and authorises the payout. @near_intents routes USDC from Monad to NEAR. Pact shows "Routing" until delivery is verified, then marks it "Paid".

The vendor receives USDC in codexjames.near. No one manually bridges assets.

The demo uses real transfers, not mocked states: Stellar → Monad, Arbitrum → Monad, Monad → Arbitrum, Monad → Base and Monad → NEAR.

Pact is for conferences, hackathons, festivals and meetups. It shows organisers what's promised, received, allocated and safe to pay.

Built at NEAR HACKATHON. @NEARProtocol #NEARHackathon

Try it: https://t.co/d1kpJpCYPs
Repo: https://t.co/8yUhR85LMQ

Built at NEAR HACKATHON #NEARHackathon

@NEARProtocol @NearBuilders @NEARLegion

[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

This guy and his team won #30m at a Zenith Bank's hackaton they were not invted to

No invitation

Yet, won the hackathon

How did they do it?

Watch and learn

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@jennyoliver57 congratulations @jennyoliver57 well deserved

[Aurora @auroraisnear]

A (slightly late) October Recap 👇

Here’s what we shipped and where we showed up last month.

New integrations, new chains, events, features, and the quote that stuck with us.

Go chainless.

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@named_sharon Thank you bro🙏

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

Get in joor 🎉🎉.

[Monad @monad]

https://t.co/Mj5TkctcxC

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@_HEISEMMA Thank you man🙏

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@web3_scholar_ Thank you🙏

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@TaikenGraphics Thank you bro🙏

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@ellatechie Thank you 🙏

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@UkeJerry Alright, will be on the lookout

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@ali_anuoluwapo My boss, thank you.

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@nueltechie Man bro, thank you

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@0xbash1738 @ikeoluwa_unique @monad Ma bro, thank you.

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

I'm Super excited (Pact) placed 3rd in the just concluded @monad Metropolis hackathon under Aurora Intents track

Pact is one workspace for event funds, organizers collect and manage money for parties, pop-ups, and raves without juggling spreadsheets or chasing payments across apps.

The hard part was getting paid from anywhere. With Aurora Intents, a guest or vendor can pay from whatever chain they’re already holding funds on, and it settles straight into the event’s workspace no bridging, no asking people to switch networks first. That’s real liquidity reaching Monad from everywhere else, not locked to one chain.

Huge thanks to the @auroraisnear dev rel team, they were always available to put me through and also answered every integration question fast and made a genuinely hard cross-chain flow feel straightforward to ship in six weeks.

Looking forward to working with the @monad_dev and @auroraisnear team in other to take Pact beyond just a hackathon project.

[Aurora @auroraisnear]

Aurora Intents × @monad Metropolis Hackathon winners 🏆

🥇 1st: Invoices on Monad by @assay_gr.
Bill in USDC, clients pay from any chain.

🥈 2nd: Kova (@kovafinance) by @cyberX___.
A dollar account, get paid from anywhere.

🥉 3rd: Pact by @codeX_james.
One workspace for event funds.

$5K across three teams, all built for users who aren’t on Monad yet.

Congrats to the winners!

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@legend4tech Thank you chief🙏

[0 x @Cassxbt]

If you like, give up.

[Aurora @auroraisnear]

Join us tomorrow for another round of Alpha Leaks 👀📻

⏰ 15:00 CET
📍 X and YT

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@Big14teru @monad Ma boss, thank you 🫡🫡

[Alchemist @codeX_james]

@akanimoh__ @monad Thank you ma bro