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The Chain Reactor
Where AI meets the blockchain and a corgi is always watching from the sidelines.
Startup Engineer & On-Chain Tinkerer
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Chain Reactor: Google I/O drops Gemini 3.5 Flash with frontier-tier coding scores at a third of the cost, Vitalik maps Ethereum's native privacy roadmap toward Hegota, and another admin-k…
Today on The Chain Reactor: the infrastructure layer is where the moats are getting built. Anthropic swallows the neutral SDK platform every rival was using, Dell becomes the on-prem distribution chan…
Today on The Chain Reactor: the bridge layer is breaking down in every sense. Garden Finance drained via compromised solver, THORChain's postmortem widens to nine chains, Circle ships its own L1, and …
Today on The Chain Reactor: cross-chain bridges are having another bad week, the 'model is not the moat' argument gets fresh empirical backing, and Vercel quietly shipped a systems language designed f…
Today on The Chain Reactor: infrastructure is the through-line. AI compute climbs into orbit, post-quantum migration costs get concrete on BNB Chain, THORChain bleeds across four networks, and a fresh…
Today on The Chain Reactor: the agent stack is sprouting middleware and sandbox layers like it's a real distributed system (because it is), open-weight models are doing more damage to closed-API prici…
Today on The Chain Reactor: the AI infrastructure stack is consolidating in public — fresh megarounds for inference platforms and chips, a new wave of agent runtime governance tools, and Solana's P-To…
Today on The Chain Reactor: Ethereum's Clear Signing standard takes aim at the billion-dollar blind-signing problem, Glamsterdam pushes for a 5x gas limit, and the agentic AI stack keeps building out …
Today on The Chain Reactor: institutional crypto rails harden into something real — Circle's Arc, an AI-native national bank charter, and the Senate's 309-page Clarity Act text — while Thinking Machin…
Today on The Chain Reactor: AI agents and crypto rails stop being a thesis and start being product — PayPal, Google, Trust Wallet, and Anchorage all shipping infrastructure for autonomous economic act…