Joel De Jesus
Co-founder · Engineering
Deep peer-to-peer background — Bitcoin, TOR, decentralized identity. Built BTC-based identity and asset management for businesses in Japan. Now leads Catscope's runtime and marketplace protocol.
LinkedIn →About
Catscope started with a simple observation: on Solana, the trader who sees state change first wins. So we built the infrastructure that lets you see it first — from inside the validator itself.
What we believe
Every architectural decision starts with one question: does this get us closer to the next block, or further away?
Auction prices, validator reputation, and policy rules are all on-chain. No backroom deals. No hidden middleware.
We don't fork the validator. We don't gate Solana state. We make the existing infrastructure more valuable for everyone on it.
In a market where microseconds define advantage, we believe the right answer is simply being faster, more accurate, and easier to integrate than every other option.
Mission
We believe in a future where blockchain is not a sidebar — it's the substrate. Real-time, decentralized, programmable infrastructure beats every centralized alternative if the latency is right. Our job is to make sure the latency is right.

The team
We've shipped peer-to-peer infrastructure before. We're shipping it again — this time for Solana.
Co-founder · Engineering
Deep peer-to-peer background — Bitcoin, TOR, decentralized identity. Built BTC-based identity and asset management for businesses in Japan. Now leads Catscope's runtime and marketplace protocol.
LinkedIn →Co-founder · BD & Growth
Leads partnerships with validators and trading firms across the Solana ecosystem. Background in sociology and decentralized infrastructure. Drives Catscope's adoption and validator network growth.
LinkedIn →Get in touch
If you run validator infrastructure, run trading capital, or want to work on protocol-level latency problems — we want to talk.