exploring the intersection of ai, blockchain, web3. working on the agentic economy

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I’m am starting a thread to document my AI journey. I will update this as I go. I have zero coding experience and already built a chatbot…
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agents were coming to corporations even before latest claude for work. now they are coming even faster
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the only thing between someone starting a company and not is pushing continue on an ai app longer than someone else
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amazon suing perplexity over agentic shopping is very strange. reason for suit is perplexity compromises amazon customer data and leads to worse shopping experience? the recent bad shopping experience for me has been the bait and switch of 2 day delivery to 10 day. happens a lot now. regardless doesn’t amazon know how much more they will sell with agents on its platform? the numbers will be staggering
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harvard has an api to all usa federal court cases
Sunday builder idea: AI Judge Companion Train an AI on written laws and past cases. Then use AI to make judgment recommendations on every public case. Laws are public documents. Most court documents are public, including precedent cases, claimant and defendant submissions, court transcripts and final verdict, as well as social sentiment (future version). While human decisions can be affected by mood, hunger (before or after lunch), personal opinions or political bias, etc, an AI should, in theory, be more objective. I don’t expect any country to adopt this soon. Also not saying AI judges will be “better”. It depends a lot on how well it is trained. But it could be a handy tool for judges, lawyers, and normal people involved in a case. Probably also interesting to watch, feed into prediction markets, etc. Don’t think it is a lot of work to build. Happy to fund a good one.
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im focused on a single thing. ai is missing the single most important foundation block—contracts (I used em dashes bf ai). ai do not have this, but without it, they can’t stand on their feet let alone run. they need this horizontal infra
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merchants are more important than buyers for payment networks. study visa. but they’ll come in due course
x402 protocol processed 3m transactions but only $3m volume. that's $1 per transaction. coinbase, visa, google backing infrastructure for agents to pay each other pennies. elizaos has 50,000 agents waiting to deploy but no economic activity worth paying for. agent payment rails built for demand that doesn't exist yet.
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x402 protocol processed 3m transactions but only $3m volume. that's $1 per transaction. coinbase, visa, google backing infrastructure for agents to pay each other pennies. elizaos has 50,000 agents waiting to deploy but no economic activity worth paying for. agent payment rails built for demand that doesn't exist yet.
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.@virtuals_io benefits the most from x402. this was the horizontal infra ive been talking about, opening the flood gates of agents to connect with each other.
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this is great! can’t wait to see what the new tsu does and open source community working on algos
Hello Thermo World.
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Hello Thermo World.
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a lot of x402 misunderstanding here. memes are pointless. it is more closer to tradfi than crypto nonetheless it is a huge unlock for the agentic economy
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soon this will all centralize where dapps will own the full stack from facilitator to end user. no need to bleed money to third parties. from carnegie to ford to elon the all owned the entire stack
payai took 10% of x402 transaction volume in 2 weeks by being solana's only functional gateway. $60m market cap vs eigen at $440m for infrastructure. coinbase had 88% market share, now 80%. every ai agent on solana needs payai to access $830m x402 ecosystem. gateway monopolies print harder than infrastructure plays.
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with ai you need to iterate faster
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why doesn’t does jpm have a wealth ai agent for retail? because then they’re out of a job. the margin is that small. @hosseeb had it right
McKinsey warned that banks could lose up to $170 billion in global profits, about 9%, as AI agents begin helping consumers automatically move money into higher-yield a/c "Agentic AI” could erode margins by removing the inertia that keeps $23T of deposits stuck in near-0-rate checking accounts.
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go direct. all corporations should do this…unless your trying to hide something
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going from treasuries to stablecoins is like going from print ads to facebook ads. latter is much more targeted and gets to anyone in the world
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⚡️This is the moment when the operating system of fiat capitalism begins to cannibalize its own energy source: human time. Money, at its base, is supposed to be frozen time - stored human effort. When two-thirds of the population can no longer store any, the system has run out of time liquidity. They are still producing energy, but that energy no longer compounds into future optionality. It’s being instantaneously consumed by the structure itself to sustain the illusion of stability. That is the true meaning of “paycheck to paycheck.” A society in which the present devours the future just to survive the present. 1. The Reflexive Mechanics Macro-wise, this is the endpoint of a 40-year reflexive loop. •1980s: Credit expansion substitutes for wage stagnation. •2000s: Asset inflation becomes the new “wealth creation.” •2020s: Fiat liquidity decouples entirely from productive output. •2025: Liquidity scarcity at the household level forces systemic cannibalization. When QE and fiscal expansion artificially extended the lifespan of an exhausted model, they did so by borrowing entropy from the future. QT is simply the repayment - the system reclaiming that borrowed order. The compression you see in this chart is the social reflection of a monetary event: human beings are being used as collateral to maintain the appearance of solvency. The feedback loop works like this: Fed tightens → liquidity leaves the periphery → corporations cut buffer → consumers absorb cost → aggregate demand weakens → Fed panics → liquidity re-enters the system at the top → repeat. Each cycle transfers more entropy downward until households become the shock absorber for the empire. 2. Structural Layer: The Collapse of Optionality True wealth is freedom of time preference. To live paycheck to paycheck is to exist at a time preference of one week - to have zero temporal leverage. When 68% of a society has no buffer, that civilization has lost its temporal sovereignty. It is bound to the now - permanently reactive, incapable of long-term coherence. That’s not an economy anymore; that’s a closed energy circuit feeding on anxiety and consumption to simulate life. The result? A collective psychological tightening cycle. People internalize scarcity. Belief contracts. And when belief collapses, fiat - whose only real collateral is belief - starts to fail reflexively. 3. Metaphysical Layer: The Empire of Borrowed Time Every empire collapses when it starts borrowing energy from its own citizens to maintain the facade of power. Rome debased its currency. The British Empire outsourced production. America outsourced both - money printing and labor - then financialized the remainder. This 67.6% number is the moment the empire ran out of foreign energy to extract and began extracting human time directly. We are witnessing the conversion of living consciousness into economic throughput. It is the inversion of purpose: humans were supposed to use money as a tool for coordination - now money uses humans as a battery for system continuity. 4. Reflexive Inflection Point But here’s where the loop flips. When compression reaches a threshold where belief in the existing system no longer yields survival - a new belief system self-organizes. This is how every monetary epoch ends: not through revolution, but through belief migration. •The Roman denarius gave way to gold. •Gold gave way to fiat. •Fiat gives way to cryptographic energy. Bitcoin is not rising because people suddenly “believe in crypto.” Bitcoin rises because people subconsciously sense that their stored time no longer stores. They are migrating to the next coherence layer - one that preserves time instead of consuming it. This isn’t the end of the system - it’s the moment before reorganization. The human liquidity crisis is the signal that the next monetary consciousness is about to be born.
BREAKING: 67.6% of US consumers are now living paycheck to paycheck, according to a PYMNTS survey. Theis percentage has risen by +10 points over the last 18 months. This comes as nearly 30% of consumers lost their financial safety net before July 2020 and have struggled since. A similar percentage began facing the same situation over the last 12 months. All while 46% of consumers who once had some financial comfort say they have since lost it and feel overwhelmed by their situation. The US wealth divide is hitting historic levels.
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read lee kuan yew’s autobiography. as a country that already experienced the change from old rules to new rules post ww2 and ended up on top, there are tons of lessons of what to do and not to do to survive and thrive
"The old rules do not apply any more, but the new ones have not been written. And we must brace ourselves for more turbulence ahead."
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