shafu
Sharif Elfouly (shafu) recently joined Circle, based in New York, building in AI, agents, crypto, and payments.He was founding engineer at Merit Systems, smart contract engineer at Venice AI and DYAD, co-founded a fintech startup in Germany, and worked as a machine learning engineer at EnBW and vialytics.
His smart contracts have secured over $1 billion onchain, he hosts Push & Pop, and speaks regularly on AI agents, crypto, and payments.
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Circle- staff software engineer (NYC)
Merit Systems- founding engineer (NYC)
Venice AI- smart contract engineer (contractor)
DYAD- smart contract engineer
eProgramming- co-founder (Germany)
EnBW Energie- AI engineer (Karlsruhe)
vialytics- AI engineer (Stuttgart)
IOT GmbH- SAP developer (Gelsenkirchen)
work
Circle- staff software engineer (NYC)Merit Systems- founding engineer (NYC)Venice AI- smart contract engineer (contractor)DYAD- smart contract engineereProgramming- co-founder (Germany)EnBW Energie- AI engineer (Karlsruhe)vialytics- AI engineer (Stuttgart)IOT GmbH- SAP developer (Gelsenkirchen)---
AI Agents and MoneyThe Rollup
Autonomous Agentic Commerce: Micropayments, AgentCash, x402 & MPPShoal Signal
x402scan: The discovery layer for x402Agentic Zero keynote
x402, ERC-8004 and CoAgents Unleashed Buenos Aires
The Signal Podcast: x402 Scan MCPEdge & Node
Agentic payments are the new normalOpenfort
x402 explained: payments unlock agentsKeeping Up with the Builders
Agentic payments might be bigger than DeFicryptosmiff
shafu0xSlop Computer
talks & podcasts
AI Agents and MoneyThe RollupAutonomous Agentic Commerce: Micropayments, AgentCash, x402 & MPPShoal Signalx402scan: The discovery layer for x402Agentic Zero keynotex402, ERC-8004 and CoAgents Unleashed Buenos AiresThe Signal Podcast: x402 Scan MCPEdge & NodeAgentic payments are the new normalOpenfortx402 explained: payments unlock agentsKeeping Up with the BuildersAgentic payments might be bigger than DeFicryptosmiffshafu0xSlop Computer---
61+ episodes. protocol internals: Ekubo, Maple, Merit, Sablier V2, and more.
Push & Pop
- my show on smart contract deep-dives youtube.com/@shafu0x61+ episodes. protocol internals: Ekubo, Maple, Merit, Sablier V2, and more.
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x402scan - x402 ecosystem explorer
evm-from-scratch-book - build the EVM from scratch
MicroStable - most simple design of a stablecoin
vehicle-speed-estimation - vehicle speed from video using deep learning
huff-stacker - auto-generate stack comments for Huff macros
open source
awesome-smart-contracts - the best smart contracts in one placex402scan - x402 ecosystem explorer
evm-from-scratch-book - build the EVM from scratch
MicroStable - most simple design of a stablecoin
vehicle-speed-estimation - vehicle speed from video using deep learning
huff-stacker - auto-generate stack comments for Huff macros
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"Why Tokenization Isn't a Tech Problem" — Village Voice (2025)
press
"The Smart Contract Engineer Building Open Source's Financial Future" — Inverse (2025)"Why Tokenization Isn't a Tech Problem" — Village Voice (2025)
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Westfälische Hochschule - B.Sc., Computer Science (2014-2017)
education
University of Tübingen - Master, AI (2018-2019, dropped out)Westfälische Hochschule - B.Sc., Computer Science (2014-2017)