New York, NY
Joined September 2020
- hosting the first nyc x402 meetup on oct 21 at the @solana offices! incredible amount of people in the city are exploring agentic finance + commerce + stablecoins. come gather to learn more and meet other people working on x402
- recap from the x402 nyc meetup earlier this week, had 100+ people turn out from ai, fintech, crypto, etc- tldr the design space of stablecoins, agents, and payments is early but probably one of the most rapidly interesting places to spend time right now
- we've got 200+ signups coming to the first x402 meetup in nyc. founders, payment giants, big tech, blockchains, fintechs, and investors all in one room. we'll have demos and hear from some of the early creators - gotta be at the @solana nyc offices next week
- contribute to one of the first async decentralized rl runs ๐Today weโre launching INTELLECT-2: The first decentralized 32B-parameter RL training run open to join for anyone with compute โ fully permissionless. Scaling towards frontier reasoning across coding, math and science.
00:00 - Weโre seeing a convergence in two of the most prominent emerging tech fields - AI and web3. Read more in this piece from me and @jbrukh ๐ค๐ค๐ค
- Today, we're laying the foundation to accelerate open & decentralized AI Introducing our protocol & testnet: A peer-to-peer compute and intelligence network. Enabling collective creation, ownership, and access of sovereign open-source AI Towards an open superintelligence future
00:00 - welcome to the swarm
00:28The network for machine intelligence Two years ago, we laid out our vision for a machine learning compute protocol. One that connects every device in the world into an open network for machine intelligence, with no gatekeepers or artificial boundaries. This week, weโll be - will be on~ come with any questions about x402 on solana / ideas for the hackathonx402 has seen an unprecedented amount of growth the last few days so we're running it back with the @SolanaFndn to talk about the latest developments in x402 on @solana
- Super excited to be backing @bidhan and the @bagel_network team, building the next generation data platform for open, collaborative AI ๐ฅฏ๐ฅฏ๐ฅฏ
- fun convo on agentic payments with @MurrLincoln from @coinbase , got to talk about the inception of x402 and what's next~ tldr it's just getting started :)Introducing Open Intelligence ๐ค A new pod focused on all things crypto x AI hosted by @_rishinsharma First episode just dropped with @MurrLincoln covering agentic payments and Coinbase's x402 standard, which recently integrated Solana Listen and subscribe below.
- hosting an event next week in nyc @SolanaSkyline - socratic seminar style convos with 40-50 ppl. discussing most recent models, scaling paradigms, and oppty to demo / get feedback on stuff you're working on, dm for infoThanks @solana for sponsoring the next AI NY dinner๐ทโจand thanks @_rishinsharma for being an incredible host ๐ This is an invite to all the top AI engineers in the City to join our Socratic-style conversations. ๐ lu.ma/ai-dinner-13.2
- time to cook with x402 on solanaThe x402 Solana Hackathon is live ๐ฅ Itโs time to build at the frontier of payments: internet native, designed for AI $50,000 in prizes across 5 tracks ๐
- good capture from @0xsamgreen on what onchain agents exist / you can use today , tons of @solana projects driving adoption :)Agentic Finance (AgentFi) is a rapidly growing crypto market segment that'll disrupt DeFi in the short run and redefine all of finance as we know it in the long run. It's not DeFAI (however you pronounce that). It's finance performed by agents with varying degrees of autonomy,


















