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.
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.
Hermes
Hermes leaves the terminal: Microsoft Store, catalog plugins and a release that cuts itself
Hermes arrives on the Microsoft Store, Spotify leaves the core as a catalog plugin, and the stable v0.21.6 release pipeline debuts.
Crypto
Bitcoin below $83,000: Hormuz, oil and the return of fear
Bitcoin slides below $83,000 on tensions in Hormuz, while crypto regulation accelerates across Hong Kong, Kazakhstan and Samsung.
AI
Nous Research is worth $1.5 billion: Hermes leaves the niche and knocks on the enterprise door
Nous Research closes a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation and launches Hermes for Businesses.
Venice.ai
Venice burns a record amount of VVV and opens the door to Claude Haiku 5.5
Venice carries out its largest discretionary burn ever ($415K) and adds Claude Haiku 5.5 and MiniMax H3 Max Recast.
Crypto
Bitcoin below 84,000 dollars as Washington changes course
Bitcoin slips below 84,000 dollars amid tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, while the CFTC writes the rules on its own and FinCEN withdraws its own.
Hermes
Hermes Index: measuring agents on real cost, not just on score
Nous Research publishes Hermes Index: four benchmarks inside Hermes Agent, with the average cost per task next to the score.
Venice.ai
VVV lands on Solana: Venice widens its routes and tightens emissions
The VVV token reaches Solana through Sunrise, while the model catalogue grows and emissions fall to 2 million a year.
Venice.ai
Flux 3 lands on Venice and VVV tightens its belt: fewer emissions, more burn
Flux 3 Image arrives on Venice in anonymised form as the cut in VVV emissions to 2M a year fully takes effect.
AI
Hermes and the plugin catalog: trust is built with a pinned commit
The Hermes Plugin Catalog grows between human review and pinned commits, while the ecosystem widens from hardware to gateways.