ASTRAL HORIZON LABS — 35.0844° N, 106.6504° W — EST. MMXXV

One engineer.
The output of a studio.

A senior engineer who orchestrates AI end to end — shipping crypto, AI, and product work that usually takes a whole team. The expertise leads; AI scales it.

What I build

One builder, the range of a studio.

Every layer engineered to the same standard, with AI directed as a force multiplier — never a substitute for craft.

01

Cross-platform products

Web, mobile, and desktop from a single Kotlin Multiplatform core — one codebase, every screen.

02

Crypto & smart contracts

Bitcoin, Lightning, and Ark; Sui and Move; Ethereum and Solidity — wallets, DeFi, and real-world assets, from protocol to interface.

03

AI-native products

Agents, LLM applications, and orchestration designed in from the start, not bolted on.

04

Brand & content

Identity, narrative, and visuals shipped through an AI-assisted creative pipeline, held to an editorial standard.

Selected work

Proofs of one builder.

Four shipped proofs — crypto, AI, product — and the method that makes them possible.

Piko — consumer product for local services and commerce
01 / Product · 2026

Piko

A consumer product taken solo from blank repository to the store — engineering, design, content, and growth held by one hand.

Mobile·Design System·Content·Growth
Thalia
02 / Bitcoin · 2026

Thalia · Volalti AG

A Kotlin Multiplatform wallet spanning on-chain, Lightning, and Ark, with TradFi alongside — one self-custodial surface over the whole stack.

Kotlin Multiplatform·Compose·Lightning·Ark
BitGPT — payment rails for autonomous agents
03 / Agents · 2025

BitGPT · x402

Native payment rails for autonomous agents — machines that hold value and settle in crypto without a human in the loop.

AI Agents·x402·Bitcoin·Payments
TDEX — non-custodial exchange on the Liquid network
04 / DeFi · 2022

TDEX

A non-custodial exchange on Liquid — atomic swaps settled trustlessly, no order book, no counterparty to trust.

Bitcoin·Liquid·Atomic Swaps·TypeScript
05 / Method — The Studio

One engineer, a decade of craft, shipping at the scale of a studio.

His command of the modern tools is the studio: for every task, the right one, in his hands.

Direction  ·  Multi-model  ·  Human review  ·  Systems
Approach

How the work gets made.

01 — Discover

We begin in observation — mapping the problem, its constraints, and its real users before a single line is committed.

02 — Architect

The foundations are set by hand: architecture, security, the shape of the interface. A senior engineer owns every structural decision.

03 — Ship & Iterate

From there, one engineer directs a fleet of AI to build at the pace of a full team — shipping fast, refining under a steady hand until the work holds.

EST. 2015 — Ledger to Horizon

One engineer.
A studio's range.

Stéphane Roche has spent a decade building software that ships — from Ledger in 2015, where Bitcoin became the discipline, through Liquid and atomic swaps, Solidity, and Move smart contracts on Sui. He builds financial products he understands as the investor who trades them, not just the engineer who codes them. The work spans dev, design, and product because one person now directs what once took a team: AI is the instrument, not the author. Seniority sets the standard; orchestration sets the pace. Founding member of Ethereum France. Bitcoin-dev trainer. Still shipping.

Stéphane Roche, founder of Astral Horizon Labs
0+
Years shipping
production software
Transmit —

Open frequencies.

Founders charting a first build, crypto teams mapping the next protocol — the work begins the same way, with one conversation.