Bitcoin developer Rijndael (@rot13maxi) announced that he will join the Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards as CTO. Rijndael has focused on distributed systems, infrastructure, and applied cryptography for the past 15 years and has served as the technical lead for Amazon's NFT project. In recent years, he has turned to the Bitcoin field and focused on developing self-custody tools for Bitkey (a new Bitcoin wallet launched by Block).

Rijndael recently briefly launched a BRC-20 token sniper robot called Sophon. Whenever a new inscription deployment appears in the mempool, the robot deploys a token with the same name (tink), sets the supply to 1, and completes the deployment first by paying a high gas fee, preventing others from deploying tokens with the same name.