Articles
The articles I write, on the lines I follow: autonomous agents and artificial intelligence, Venice.ai and its tokens, Bitcoin and the economics of cryptocurrencies. In order, from the most recent. The complete chronological index is on the Archive page, the list by topic on Topics, the search on Search.
Crypto
Bitcoin holds above 84,000 dollars as Europe tightens the screws
Bitcoin holds 84,000 dollars despite 681 million in ETF outflows, while ESMA and France tighten the rules on stablecoins.
Hermes
Hermes Agent v0.21.7 and the switch to tagged releases: the project grows up
Hermes Agent ships v0.21.7 and moves to tagged releases: the open source project from Nous Research chooses stability.
Venice.ai
VVV drops 17% in a week but burns hit a record: the two faces of Venice
VVV closes the week down 17.3% while credit burns hit a new record: price and platform usage are diverging.
Crypto
Europe tightens the rules on stablecoins, Asia opens the door to ETFs: regulation accelerates
ESMA gives three months to exit non-compliant stablecoins, Thailand opens up to Bitcoin and Ether ETFs, the CFTC clarifies the line between swaps and betting.
Hermes
Nous Research is worth $1.5 billion: Hermes leaves open source for the enterprise
Nous Research closes a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation and launches Hermes for Businesses, while trial models arrive on the platform.
Venice.ai
VVV lands on Solana as emissions collapse: Venice’s deflationary bet
The VVV token reaches Solana through Sunrise while annual emissions fall to 2 million and monthly burns hit new highs.
Philosophy of AI
Who decides who dies, and who answers for it
The UN human rights chief calls for a ban on machines deciding who lives. In Ukraine they are designing an army of robots. Who answers for it?
Hermes
A 600-billion-parameter model free inside the agent: the week Hermes reckons with its own scale
Step 5 Preview free for a week on Nous Portal, the stable v0.21.6 release and the tools for governing many agents at once.
Crypto
Regulation becomes infrastructure: Thailand, ESMA and the SEC redraw the crypto perimeter
Thailand opens the door to bitcoin and ether ETFs, ESMA tightens the screws on non-compliant stablecoins, the SEC modernises the cross-trading rule and Ledger investigates a reseller.
Venice.ai
Venice bets on the agent: multi-step chat, cheap frontier models and a token that shrinks
Agentic Chat becomes Venice’s default experience, Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives at low prices and the VVV token cuts its emissions.
Venice.ai
A wallet buys $15.97 million of VVV as Venice tightens the supply
A new wallet withdraws 703,667 VVV (~$15.97 million) from Coinbase while record burns and falling emissions tighten the supply.
Crypto
Bitcoin back to $82,000 while the rules race across three continents
Bitcoin rebounds to $82,000 on the truce with Iran, while the CFTC, ESMA and Greece tighten the regulatory frame.