Josh Stein
Developer Advocate at Celestia Labs
I work on the Developer Experience team and focus on documentation, demos, and hackathons. I am also an editor for the Celestia Improvement Proposal process, which you can get involved in at cips.celestia.org and forum.celestia.org.
If you're looking to get in touch, I am most active on GitHub, X, Farcaster, and Bluesky.
About
I began my journey into the computer science world when I was finishing university during the pandemic. I discovered my love for making lightweight websites and my love for blockchains shortly after.
I completed my Bachelor of Science in Business concentrating in Supply Chain Management and Analytics from VCU's School of Business and a Minor in Mathematics in May 2021. I made Dean's List in August 2020 and May 2021.
In October 2021, I discovered buildspace through Developer DAO. This led me to my first frontend contract and then a short gig as a teaching assistant with buildspace (see my buildspace profile). Next, I worked full-time as a Developer Relations Engineer at Ankr.
I'm also hanging out in Developer DAO and Peeple DAO.
In the past, I also co-founded Lattice Supply and founded Wellness DAO.
Projects
- Celestia Gas Price - Raycast extension for Celestia gas prices
- Celestia Address - Raycast extension for viewing Celestia addresses on Celenium
- Mammoth Control Panel - A UI to interact with a Celestia light node for mamo-1 testnet
- Telegram Announcement Bot - A Telegram bot for sending formatted announcements to multiple channels simultaneously
- dummy_rollup with tictactoe - Tic-tac-toe game implementation using the Celestia blockchain
- dummy_rollup - A dummy rollup project to test posting and retrieving data from Celestia
- celestia.cool - A Celestia mempool visualization
- CelestiaGPT demo - AI chatbot for Celestia docs
- light-nodes - An NPM package for using celestia-node
- Quazar - A Celestia light node client for macOS
- An implementation of Scaffold-ETH Optimistic Loogies on a rollup
- Screen Names - A lightweight app to help you rename screenshots on macOS
- build market - NFT marketplace on Goerli built with thirdweb
- Base64 SVG tutorial with Celestia
- Bitcoin + Rollkit + EVM demo - Bitkit.dev
- Celestia EVM rollup demo - Say Moo
- Celestia EVM rollup demo - GM Portal
- Bundlr JS demo uploader
- R3sume - My resume as an NFT
- On-Chain Resume - My professional history as NFTs
- thirdweb + rainbowkit + wagmi + vite ERC-1155 minting site
- Vite Tree - DIY React Linketree with Chakra UI
- Vite Tailwind Starter Repository
- RainbowKit Starter (Vite + React + Tailwind CSS)
- Multichain NFT Gallery
- Ankr Pay-as-you-go Calculator
- My List of Decentralized Tooling
- web3con by DeveloperDAO
- XP Radio Linktree-style Chakra UI + React
- SpeedRunEthereum.com
- pointer.gg - Solidity Keyboard Generator
- Sequoia Vans, i18n demo
- 3SLR Zora Demo
- Is SNL New Tonight?
Presentations
- How to build whatever (Encode Club's Chain Abstraction educate series, 2024)
- How to build whatever (Modular Summit 3.0 - Brussels, Belgium, July 2024)
- How to Build Whatever (Consensus 2024 - Austin, Texas, May 2024)
- Building with OP Stack (Infinite Space Bazaar, April-May 2024)
- OP Stack Rollup Workshop (Modular Summit 2.0 - Paris, France, July 2023)
- Celestia Light Node Tutorial (Modular Summit 2.0 - Paris, France, July 2023)
- Developer Infrastructure Panel (Modular Summit 2.0 - Paris, France, July 2023)
- DevNTell - Modular Blockchains (Developer DAO, 2023)
- Theory Thursdays: Celestia w/ Josh Stein (ETH Denver 2023 - Denver, Colorado, February 2023)
- WAGMI on Polygon - Episode 3 ft Josh Stein (July 2022)
- Deploy an ERC-721 Smart Contract and Mint NFT on Avalanche with Ankr (Avalanche House - Berlin, Germany, July 2022)
- Metaverse Panel with Ankr, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Meta (LA Hacks @ UCLA - Los Angeles, California, May 2022)
- How to Deploy an ERC-721 Contract and Mint Your First NFT - Workshop (LA Hacks @ UCLA - Los Angeles, California, April 2022)
- Ankr Hybrid Infrastructure (ETH Dubai - Dubai, UAE, March 2022)
- Web3 Developer Tools: My Journey into Web3 and the Ankr Premium Plan (Avalanche Summit - Barcelona, Spain, March 2022)
- Avalanche Summit Hackathon Bounties (Avalanche Summit - Barcelona, Spain, March 2022)