I’m Sylve Chevet, currently building Hylé, the core layer for the modular ZK stack. I Co-founded briqNFT, Dojo and I’m a governance facilitator at the Starknet Foundation. I came up with Keep Starknet Strange.

I graduated from HEC Paris in 2018 after a classe préparatoire, and have worked as a product manager at Ledger from 2018 to 2021. I’ve been working on briq since 2021.

My interests lie in blockchain, provability & zk, onchain games, autonomous worlds, NFTs, account abstraction & wallets, (continental) philosophy, urbanism, video games, the contemporary experience of living, knowledge tools, the slow cancellation of the future, lost futures, remix culture & IP law, philosophical inquiries about the concept of space and Super Smash Bros Melee.

I love collecting pieces of information on are.na and I agressively shitpost on every single social network I join.

Content I’d recommend Link to heading

Books Link to heading

• Non-Places, Augé (much better concept than liminal spaces)
• Mystery of Capital, Soto
• Ghosts of my Life, Fisher
• Reading, Writing, Gracq
• The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks
• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Benjamin
• The Revolt of the Elites, Lasch
• The Case Against Education, Caplan
• Evicted, Desmond
• Le Bon Gouvernement, Rosanvallon
• Tools for Conviviality, Illich
• Le Paradigme de l’Art Contemporain, Heinich
• Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke
• Espèces d’Espaces, Pérec
• La Confession d’un Enfant du Siècle, Musset
• L’Homme Révolté, Camus
• L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’Être, Kundera
• Bygmester Solness, Ibsen
• On Liberty, Mill
• Discipline and Punish, Foucault
• The Erasers, Robbe-Grillet
• The Tartar Steppe, Buzzati
• Voyage au bout de la nuit, Céline
• Aurélien, Aragon
• Gamer Theory, Wark

Articles Link to heading

• The Melancholy of Subculture Society, Gwern
• Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds: A how-to guide, Lars Doucet
• Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
• Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture
• Neon and corporate dystopias: why does cyberpunk refuse to move on?
• Vaporwave, la musique d’un futur qui n’a jamais existé
• Modern boys and mobile girls, Gibson
• Minds turned to Ash
• The Terrazzo Jungle
• Atoms, Institutions, Blockchains, Josh Stark
• Deconstructing the Hero, Thomson
• No project is an island: linking projects to history and context, Engwall
• The Two-Sigma Problem, Bloom
• Le Monde-Objet, Barthes (in Essais Critiques)
• Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques, Dunlosky et al.

Video Link to heading

• Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia
• Welcome to the Bread Bank
• Libertarian Postmodernism
• Indie Game, The Movie