Thoughts on web3, developer tools, and building products that matter.
I am running OpenClaw on a Mac Mini at home and interacting with it through WhatsApp. It has become the most useful tool I own. Here is my setup, how I use it daily, and why self-hosted AI assistants are the future of personal productivity.
Read more →Avalanche validators increased the C-Chain gas target by 30% through the Octane upgrade. Here is what this means for developers, users, and the future of high-throughput EVM chains.
Read more →How I use Claude Code to navigate, understand, and contribute to open-source projects like Visual Studio Code. An agentic CLI tool turned a 1.5 million line codebase from intimidating to approachable.
Read more →The average crypto user manages 3+ wallets across different chains. Chain abstraction aims to make that unnecessary. After years of building for Web3 onboarding, I think this is the most important UX problem the industry needs to solve.
Read more →After spending years building privacy-first applications in Web3, I've turned my attention to the AI side of privacy. Here's my practical guide to running powerful LLMs locally — and why it matters more than most developers think.
Read more →Real-world asset tokenization went from a PowerPoint talking point to a $12B+ market in 2025. Having watched the TradFi-DeFi convergence from the Web3 side, here's what's actually happening and why it matters.
Read more →AI agents are the most overhyped and simultaneously most underestimated trend in tech right now. After building several agent systems, here's what actually works — and what doesn't.
Read more →Avalanche's evolution from subnets to sovereign L1s is reshaping how we think about blockchain architecture. After building on shared-state chains for years, I'm increasingly convinced that app-specific chains are the future.
Read more →The Model Context Protocol is quietly becoming the USB-C of AI tooling — a universal standard that lets any model talk to any tool. Here's why it matters and how it's already changing my workflow.
Read more →Coinbase's new CDP Wallets are a significant leap forward in web3 development, directly addressing the perennial challenge of private key management.
Read more →Privacy is becoming a critical concern in the digital age. At COTI, we're pioneering the use of Garbled Circuits to enable computation on encrypted data, opening new possibilities for secure applications.
Read more →From my time at Chainlink to now at COTI, I've seen firsthand how developer tooling can make or break adoption of new technologies.
Read more →My journey from GitLab's product team to leading Web3 infrastructure has taught me valuable lessons about building products that developers love.
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