About

Hey, Richard Rauser here.

I am currently engaged full-time as the CTO of fan3, a blockchain based fan loyalty and engagement platform. I’ve been lucky enough to build the entire technology function at fan3 from scratch, including architecting the platform, building and leading the tech team, defining our engineering culture and values, and strategising about how leading edge tech can deliver value for fan3. Previously I was Head of Innovation at TokenTraxx, where I strategised and developed new blockchain-based concepts with the CCO, CEO and CTO to support creators, curators and collectors of music. I regularly speak publicly about the future of web3 at events and conferences like NFT.NYC, Blockdown Croatia and IMS Ibiza.

I am a futurist and multidisciplinary technologist at heart, having professionally built software for desktop, web, mobile and blockchain for more than 25 years. I am especially enthusiastic about the hugely transformative power of web3 and AI, and spend much of my time professionally and personally thinking about their future. My interest in blockchain is largely but not exclusively focused on smart contracts, NFTs and DeFi.

Current personal projects include DynaStripes, an on-chain, generative NFT art project whereby users can configure and preview artworks before mint, and keep all royalties in perpetuity. Another is TraxxStemz, a randomised digital jukebox for creating entirely unique art and music NFTs from components provided by established musicians and their remixers. I consult and build apps via raaza.

I also enjoy taking part in hackathons and coding contests in my free time. In December 2025, I was one of the winners of the Google Gemini 3 London Hackathon, taking the Best Use of Antigravity prize with BeatBrain.ai. In July 2024, I was a winner of the Base Onchain Summer contest in the Creator track with anglez.xyz. In April 2023, I won the Shopify x Thirdweb Web3 E-commerce contest with Circlez Coffee. 🚀

Technology-wise, I have considerable experience across the full gamut of tech, from building smart contracts in Solidity, scripting serverless functions in AWS Lamda or GCP, architecting mobile apps in Swift or Flutter, building BI queries for Azure Data Lake or Big Query, structuring devOps pipelines, and more. I’ve worked frontend to backend, big tech to startups.

Personally, I am originaly from Vancouver Canada, but now spend most of the my time in London, UK. I am back in British Columbia at least twice a year, usually August and Xmas, to enjoy the company of family and old friends, as well as the mountains, lakes, and ocean.