Welcome to ION1, a development sandbox for experimental AI and Web3 projects where I build professional tools designed to streamline creative workflows and accelerate prototyping.
My current focus is on two high-performance development environments, Muffin Studio and Monolith. Both platforms utilize a multi-layered AI pipeline to deliver outstanding results at a reduced cost.
Muffin Studio is a complete development suite for building games, applications, and webpages, designed to be accessible to everyone from children and beginners to experienced developers.
Monolith is a lightweight, file-based CMS that lets you edit live web content without the database bloat. It simplifies your workflow with secure, DOM-level editing and AI-powered writing assistance directly within your existing codebase.
Here is a quick look at some of my current projects. Please note that access to these is currently limited to my partner organizations and beta testers.
Whitespace is a document editor built for professional writers and editors, featuring streamlined document management and automatic version control.
Krelman Data is a suite of tools for algorithmic trading and quantitative analysis. It tracks prices, seismic shifts in cryptocurrency markets, and potential power-law events on the horizon.
Calista is a natural language interface featuring a multi-layered AI pipeline that combines LLMs with image generation and editing models, capable of a wide range of tasks.
Storm-8 is a real-time global storm tracker designed with a retro 90s dashboard interface.
● Active Beta
Squared (working title) is a chess coordinate training game featuring multiple modes and engaging gameplay.
● Active Beta
A web-based workstation that functions and feels like a modern operating system.
● Started
Craft Till Dawn (working title) is a 2D survival and adventure game with mining and crafting, inspired by Runescape and Minecraft.
● Started
Stately (working title) is designed to be a reply assistant for chat and messaging applications.
● Active Beta
Synth Blocks (working title) is a pattern-based loop generator powered by a single synthesizer engine.
● StartedAI Playground • Web3 Research
Cloud-based development sandbox
I am Mildon, and I have been a software developer for almost 25 years. This website serves to document my active projects and set the roadmap for my upcoming ones. It represents my vision and outlook, especially in this post-AI world, where the nature of software development and the role of the developer have certainly evolved. ION1 is not a company or a collective; it is my personal catalog of projects and prototypes that I am actively developing. It is also a central status board for these projects, for the benefit of those already using and testing the applications hosted here.
Since my early days as a developer of audio software, I have always been driven to create bridge-the-gap solutions, and this is still true today. I build software that I personally need, and it is often those that become the projects I am truly proud of—those born out of, "I wish I had something like this." And if you're a developer or a programmer, I hope you keep building what you want and what you need, and may you be inspired to create something truly awesome.
Muffin Studio is a browser-based AI development environment that accelerates coding by turning natural language descriptions into functional software. It automates boilerplate, testing, and integration, allowing developers to focus on architecture and unique features. Tailored for web apps and game prototypes, the platform offers real-time assistance, robust version control, and comprehensive archiving tools to ensure project safety, while minimizing technical friction and streamlining the path from concept to deployment.
Monolith is a file-based content management system designed for editing web pages and application interfaces. It functions by allowing direct modification of template elements within existing codebases, using an AI-assisted interface for text updates. The system uses a session-managed approach that avoids the need for external databases or extensive infrastructure. Features include DOM-level editing for specific content tags, file-based storage, and live synchronization for content previews.
Autonomous economic agents represent the threshold where machine intelligence transitions from descriptive generation to deterministic capital execution. For an AI model to hold sovereign cryptographic assets, traditional private key storage is insufficient due to prompt injection risks and unstructured outputs.
Our research explores modular smart accounts governed by ERC-4337 and ERC-6900 session validations. Through constrained capability policies, models are granted fine-grained spend limits, whitelisted contract interactions, and emergency circuit breakers enforced directly at the smart contract level.
Key architectural requirements include formal verification of agent tool-call payloads, multi-signature timelocks for large value allocations, and localized hardware enclave (TEE) signing to safeguard private credentials from memory dumping.
By transforming intelligent agents into native on-chain economic entities, micro-services can buy API bandwidth, purchase storage proofs, and settle peer-to-peer compute bounties in real time without human custody friction.
As synthetic generation permeates mission-critical systems, verifying the authentic execution of algorithmic inference is paramount. Zero-knowledge machine learning (zkML) provides cryptographic certificates proving that an inference computation executed against an exact hash of model weights without revealing the weights themselves.We investigate quantization strategies and polynomial commitment schemes optimized for non-linear activation functions such as ReLU, GeLU, and Softmax within verifiable arithmetic circuits.
We investigate quantization strategies and polynomial commitment schemes optimized for non-linear activation functions such as ReLU, GeLU, and Softmax within verifiable arithmetic circuits.
By compiling neural network graphs into succinct zkSNARK / zkSTARK proofs, verifiers on EVM layer-1s or rollups can confirm inferences with negligible gas overhead, establishing undeniable provenance for medical diagnoses, automated financial settlements, and certified audit trails.
This paradigm eliminates 'black-box' trust assumptions, ensuring distributed consumers can mathematically guarantee that output was produced by the declared model version without compromise.
In 2023, I created Calista, a Telegram bot that served as a natural language interface for image generation and editing. Beyond standard LLM chat capabilities, Calista integrated ten distinct models to perform a wide range of editing tasks, such as object removal, inpainting, image expansion, background replacement, upscaling, and facial enhancement. While these features are now standard in the free versions of tools like Gemini and ChatGPT, at the time, having such a versatile suite of tools consolidated into a single AI agent was remarkable, and it became a regular part of daily life for me, my friends, and my family. This tool served its purpose and is no longer needed today.
My inspiration came from my 8-year-old daughter, who loves creating digital art and animation. Even though she uses several popular applications, she frequently finds that the tools she relies on for painting, editing, and animating lack specific features she needs. This sparked the idea to reinvent Calista as a comprehensive, all-in-one suite for graphics and animation.
Here’s the grand master plan Calista wrote for her own reinvention!
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