Mercy Boma Naps-Nkari

Distributed systems engineer and security researcher specializing in building decentralized infrastructure and consensus mechanisms.

I work on distributed systems and Ethereum consensus protocols. My focus is on scaling and decentralizing Ethereum through provable ZK-VM protocols. I'm passionate about open-source contribution and mentoring developers entering the protocol space.

Currently

Building Zeam — a production-grade Zig implementation of Beam Chain, a ZK-based Ethereum consensus protocol.

Cohort 4 Co-Lead at Women in Ethereum Protocol (WiEP) — onboarding women into Ethereum protocol development.

Open Source

Zeam — Zig implementation of Beam Chain
Lean Quickstart — A utility to quickly spin up a localnet of lean (multi-client) nodes
Hash-Sig CLI — CLI for hash-based signatures for post-quantum cryptography
Lodestar — Ethereum consensus client in TypeScript
pylibp2p — Python implementation of libp2p
Lighthouse Agent Tooling — MCP connectors and AI-native developer tools