Building at the Edge of Web3, previously Director of Ecosystem Growth at Web3 Foundation
Germany
Joined March 2013
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Hawig Ventures hawig.xyz/ is up and running, which means we are getting close to launching @yieldshield_ai. But I also have a bunch of other ideas, and I'm happy to help anyone who wants to combine AI with Web3 composability.
I have a lot of fun on weekends producing my own content instead of just consuming it. I just updated the design of Humanoverhead. Feel free to check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=m7eyuRqr…
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There is nothing to worry about.
Nothing important is run on PHP or old software—except the water & electrical grid, a few government services like our missile defense systems and a handful of electrified fences at the zoo (for the lions, tigers and cobras).
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One design, six chains. We're building downside protection wherever people invest.
Holders keep the upside. Paid providers carry the downside, with the backing reserved on-chain before anyone commits.
What each testnet adds 🧵
I spent the weekend working on humanoverhead.com: survival fiction about a city run by AI, made with AI.
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YieldShield Alpine is live on @avax Fuji testnet 🏔️
Protect AVAX with a fixed backing claim reserved on-chain by first-loss providers. Before maturity, keep your AVAX (sharing part of any gain) or take the backing.
Valueless test tokens, open source:
avalanche.yieldshield.ai
It might be better, but GPT-6.1 Sol is extremely slow
So I tested GPT-6.1 Sol on real work: 2 repos, 105 planted bugs. Find and fix what you can.
Unlike GPT-6 Sol, which was just a nerfed GPT-5.6 Terra, this one is real. The results:
- GPT-6 Astra (max): 45 for $33
- GPT-6.1 Sol (max): 44 for $6.56
- GPT-5.6 Sol (max): 43.5 for $95.35
- Opus 5.5 (max): 41.7 for $58.53
- GPT-6 Sol (max): 29.3 for $9.33
With a model like this, the 50% cut to the $200 plan doesn't matter.
n=1. More runs and results at more effort levels dropping in this thread over the next few hours 🧵
If you're hyped about Jev, you should check out GLiNER2.5. I'm currently using it to develop an AI rater for rateloop: github.com/Noc2/rateloop-eva…
I just finished Harvard's @cs50 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence... The next step is to develop my own AI and rule the world 😉
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We just deployed the latest version of YieldShield for testing on Base Sepolia. A new way to HODL tokens +stocks.
Senior holders get priority; junior providers earn fees for taking downside risk.
Check it out: base.yieldshield.ai
@buildonbase
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🦞 Run OpenClaw on Acurast.
@openclaw is available through Cargo, making it easy to deploy your own personal AI assistant on Acurast’s decentralized compute network.
No traditional server to manage. No need to keep your computer running.
Our tutorial walks you through the setup, deployment, and how to access your OpenClaw dashboard.
Check it out here: acurast.com/blog/tutorials/r…
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Over 300,000 phones are now onboarded to Acurast.
Another major milestone.
These hundreds of thousands of phones are helping build the biggest decentralized compute network in the world, using already existing hardware. No data centres needed.
The next cloud is in your pocket.
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Real-world results are in. There is a new #1 on Code Arena - GPT-6 Astra (Max)!
It also reshapes the Pareto frontier as the best-performing model at $40/Mtoken, which matches the latest Claude model pricing.
GPT-6 Astra by @OpenAI takes the top spot in Code Arena: WebDev with a score of 1797 pts. This opens up a solid +35pt lead over #2 Claude Fable 5.1 (Max) at 1762 pts and #3 Claude Opus 5 (Max) at 1688 pts.
This is a significant improvement from GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh) at +180 pts, ranked at #13.
Category level votes still incoming, but already we see it at #1 in: Data & Analytics, Consumer Product, Content Creation Tools and #2 in Gaming and Simulations.
Stay tuned for other categories like Brand & Marketing, Reference-Based Design and Full Stack rankings.
Congrats to the @OpenAI team on this release!
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We will give one banked reset for every day you don't have access to Astra on your paid ChatGPT plan, starting today. Team is moving mountains to give access as fast as we can.
First one will land in ~ 3 hours. There is still time to create your account if you don't have one.
