The (decentralised) AI agent stack
21 Dec 2024
Over the past few months we’ve seen the emergence of decentralised AI agents, which differ to centralised ones in that they are built on blockchains.
For simplicity’s sake I’ve broken down the technology stack that underpins them into three core components: apps, middleware and infrastructure.
Apps
To...
Rafael Nadal
24 Nov 2024
When I was growing up, my tennis idol was Roger Federer. Despite the fact that I’m a lefty and my favourite surface is clay, my allegiance lay with him instead of Rafa. Every time they played each other, it was an emotional rollercoaster.
Rafa was the enemy. His every...
$MORPHO
20 Nov 2024
Tomorrow, Morpho’s native token, $MORPHO, will become transferable. The Morpho token was launched in June 2022 but up until now users could only earn it by using the Morpho protocol. The token could not be bought or sold on centralised or decentralised exchanges. Tomorrow, users will be able to...
Agents and crypto
04 Nov 2024
Over the past couple of weeks there’s been a lot of excitement around the intersection of AI agents and crypto.
One of the projects to capture everyone’s attention is Truth Terminal (or Truth), a custom tuned large language model (LLM) trained by a developer called Andy Ayrey. Custom...
Growing Farcaster's GDP
24 Oct 2024
One of Farcaster’s key properties, which I've written about before, is its composability. Anyone can build applications on top of it without needing permission.
Another important property is that it pairs each username with a crypto wallet. Every user that signs up to Farcaster has a wallet....