I'm an open-source developer passionate about building practical tools and innovative integrations across Machine Learning and Blockchain technology. My work is driven by a desire to make advanced concepts more accessible and to provide robust, MIT-licensed solutions for the wider developer community.
Check out my GitHub sponsorship page: https://github.com/sponsors/grctest
My Core Focus Projects:
My current efforts are concentrated on a range of projects, from bringing state-of-the-art AI models to new environments to enhancing decentralized financial platforms.
- grctest/FastAPI-BitNet: This project is a top priority, offering a robust REST API for managing and interacting with
llama.cpp-based Microsoft BitNet model instances. It's built with FastAPI, Uvicorn, and Docker, providing a scalable and high-performance backend solution for BitNet inference, ideal for automated testing, benchmarking, and interactive chat sessions. It also seamlessly connects to GitHub Copilot Chat via the Model Context Protocol. - grctest/BitNet-VSCode-Extension: As another high-priority project, this VSCode extension automates the deployment and management of the
FastAPI-BitNetbackend. It runs the service in a Docker container and exposes its capabilities directly to GitHub Copilot Chat as a set of powerful tools. This streamlines the entire lifecycle of BitNet instances right from your editor. - grctest/Electron-BitNet: This application brings Microsoft's official BitNet model to the desktop using Astro, React, and Electron. It enables users to run BitNet in chat mode, benchmark models, and calculate perplexity, offering a user-friendly, cross-platform experience for local AI inference.
- BTS-CM/astro-ui: A key blockchain project, this is a modern, decentralized exchange (DEX) front-end for Bitshares. Crafted with Astro, React, and Electron, it allows users to interact directly with the Bitshares blockchain, execute DEX limit orders, manage liquidity pools, and broadcast transactions securely via the Beet and BeetEOS multiwallets. This project demonstrates my commitment to enhancing decentralized financial platforms.
Beyond these featured repositories, I'm also actively working on BitNet integration for Microsoft's KBLaM LLM technology and continually maintaining the BeetEOS multiwallet, ensuring its reliability for Bitshares and EOS users.
Why Your Sponsorship Matters:
Developing and maintaining these diverse open-source projects demands significant time, effort, and resources. Your sponsorship plays a critical role in enabling me to:
- Accelerate Development: Dedicate more focused hours to coding new features, refining existing functionalities, and resolving issues across both the cutting-edge machine learning and robust blockchain domains.
- Innovate and Research: Invest in exploring new technologies and approaches to keep these projects at the forefront of their respective fields, such as further advancements in BitNet integrations or new blockchain functionalities.
- Ensure Sustainability: Cover essential costs for development tools, testing environments, and any necessary infrastructure to ensure the ongoing reliability and performance of all repositories.
- Empower the Community: Allocate more time to providing support, responding to inquiries, reviewing contributions, and fostering a collaborative environment for users and fellow developers.
My goal is to create impactful, open-source tools that empower developers and users in both the rapidly evolving world of machine learning and the secure, transparent realm of decentralized technologies. Your support is invaluable in allowing me to continue this work and contribute high-quality resources to the open-source ecosystem.
Join Me on This Journey!
Every contribution, no matter the size, makes a tangible difference and is deeply appreciated. Thank you for considering sponsoring my open-source endeavors.
Ready to support my work? Explore my sponsorship tiers to find the level that's right for you.
Sponsorship Levels
Community Supporter
You are the foundation. This tier covers the essential operational costs—hosting, domains, and tooling—that keep these projects online and accessible. Your support forms the bedrock of the community, ensuring these tools remain free and actively maintained for everyone.
Open Source Champion
You're not just supporting—you're championing progress. This contribution directly funds the dedicated time needed for focused development, leading to faster bug fixes, more polished features, and a quicker pace of innovation. You are tangibly accelerating the maturity and reliability of these tools.
Innovation Sustainer
You sustain genuine innovation. Your support provides the stability required for deep, uninterrupted work on complex problems. This allows me to move beyond routine maintenance and dedicate serious hours to architectural improvements and ambitious new features, delivering more powerful and efficient technology to the community.
Ecosystem Catalyst
You are a catalyst for the entire ecosystem. This level of support provides the momentum to tackle major roadmap goals and pursue strategic, long-term improvements. It allows for protected blocks of time dedicated to significant enhancements, ensuring the projects not only keep pace with but also help define the future of open-source AI and blockchain.
Frontier Pioneer
You are pioneering new frontiers. This tier funds the high-risk, high-reward research and development that is often impossible in an open-source setting. Your support empowers the exploration of speculative ideas and experimental prototypes, directly enabling the next generation of breakthroughs that push the boundaries of current technology.
Transformative Architect
Your support is architecting the future of these projects. This commitment moves beyond new features to fund the fundamental re-engineering of core components for greater scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability. You are building an unshakeable foundation, ensuring these tools can stand the test of time and scale to meet global demand.