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Vol. LXXIII · No. 217Monday · MCMLIII

The Zlerp Chronicle

Established 1953Price · 5¢Classifieds & Dispatches
EXCLUSIVEFront Page · Above the Fold

LOCAL ENGINEER, 10 YEARS ON THE BEAT, STILL SHIPPING.

“The fun parts of the web have always been the fun parts,” says Perlman from his desk in Miami, FL.

By ZACH PERLMAN · Staff Engineer · Dateline: Miami, FL

MIAMI — In a dusty corner office overlooking the bay, a self-described “quiet engineer” has spent a decade shipping the unglamorous parts of the modern web. Web3 infrastructure · real-time systems · the fun parts of the web. Observers note a steady output — small utilities, referral-fee distribution contracts, the occasional blog post — delivered without fanfare. Today, the Chronicle presents his folio, set in columns.

Section B · ProfilePage B2

A PROFILE: The Unassuming Builder of Small, Durable Things.

By STAFF · Filed 06:00 EST · Desk: Technology

Engineer at QuikNode building blockchain RPC and developer tooling used across the crypto ecosystem. I like building things that are fast, small, and a little weird — from referral-fee distribution smart contracts to raw-transaction sleuthing scripts. Web is fun.In an industry driven by novelty, this reporter finds the subject’s patience unusual. The piece you are reading was typeset on the overnight shift and run on the rotary press at four in the morning, with ink smudges still visible in the margins.
Section C · ClassifiedsPage C1 — C4

CLASSIFIEDS — Services Offered

Four notices, arranged by job code. Inquire by wire.

J-087 · 2026$$$

poc-distribution

Referral fee distribution PoCs

Three parallel proofs-of-concept for scalable on-chain referral payouts: 1inch CumulativeMerkleDrop, Thirdweb Airdrop, and Splits Protocol. Live-tested on Polygon mainnet with gas benchmarks.

  • TypeScript
  • Solidity
  • Viem
  • Hardhat
  • Polygon
Inquire ↗
J-142 · 2025$$

rawTxnAddressFinder

Raw transaction archaeology

JavaScript CLI that decodes raw Ethereum transactions and surfaces the signer address + nonce without needing an RPC. Great for forensics and cold-wallet recovery flows.

  • JavaScript
  • ethers.js
  • Node.js
Inquire ↗
J-209 · 2025$

zlerplabs.com

A personal sandbox

Long-running experiments blog — part playground, part portfolio, part accidental README. Runs on Next.js with a custom MDX pipeline and view-transitions-powered post navigation.

  • Next.js
  • MDX
  • Tailwind
  • Vercel
Inquire ↗
J-314 · 2026FREE

QuikNode Core

Blockchain RPC at scale

Day-job work on the platform powering thousands of web3 teams — multi-chain RPC routing, archive-node query optimization, and streaming WebSocket subscriptions.

  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • Kubernetes
  • ClickHouse
Inquire ↗
Section D · Local NewsWire Dispatches

LOCAL NEWS — A Career, In Wire Dispatches.

(AP) Wire · QuikNode
Jun 2022Present

Engineer

By STAFF · Dateline: Miami

Built internal tooling for blockchain RPC observability, adopted across multiple product teams.

Shipped referral-fee distribution infrastructure handling on-chain payouts to thousands of developers.

Contributor on the core platform powering RPC + streams for web3 developers.

(UPI) Wire · Zlerp Labs
Jan 2020Present

Builder-in-Residence (self)

By STAFF · Dateline: Unspecified

Personal R&D — smart-contract experiments, small web apps, occasional blog posts at zlerplabs.com.

Published open-source utilities like rawTxnAddressFinder and distribution PoCs.

(REUTERS) Wire · Prior startups
Aug 2015May 2022

Full-stack / Product Engineer

By STAFF · Dateline: Unspecified

Shipped consumer and B2B products across a handful of early-stage teams.

Owned frontend, backend, and a lot of 'whatever nobody else wants to touch'.

Section E · LettersTo the Editor

LETTERS — Wire the City Desk.

Correspondence welcomed · Brevity appreciated · All letters subject to editing for space

Not actively looking, but always happy to chat. The desk is presently operating out of Miami, FL. Use the form below, or reach us through any of the channels listed in the colophon.

The Zlerp Chronicle · © MCMLIII — MMXXVI— 30 —
Set on the overnight desk. Printed at dawn. Any errata to be corrected in the morning edition.
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