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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: Microsoft's Build 2026 rewired the agent development stack from the OS up, MiniMax dropped a frontier open-weights model at a fraction of closed-model cost, and Vitalik pro…
Today on The Chain Reactor: NVIDIA rewrites the physical AI playbook with an open world model and a 550B-parameter agent framework, while the CFTC opens the door to onshore crypto perpetuals for the f…
Today on The Chain Reactor: AI inference just became a commodity, May 2026 set a grim record for DeFi exploits, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are putting real teeth behind their framewo…
Today on The Chain Reactor: autonomous coding agents colonize Windows, on-device AI reaches 128K context, and DeFi has a rough week — two bridge hacks, a frozen privacy wrapper, and an oracle failure …
Today on The Chain Reactor: Anthropic closes the mega-round we've been tracking to become the most valuable AI company at $965B while shipping 1,000-subagent orchestration. Illinois passes the first U…
Today on The Chain Reactor: the agentic finance stack is assembling in real time — Robinhood gives AI agents trading accounts and credit cards, Celer ships state-channel micropayments for autonomous a…
Today on The Chain Reactor: the plumbing between AI agents and on-chain finance gets its first real production integration, a one-character HTTP header exploit puts millions of AI agent deployments at…
Today on The Chain Reactor: the infrastructure layer around frontier models is hardening fast — routing platforms, agent payment protocols, and enterprise agent suites are all shipping this week. We d…
Today on The Chain Reactor: infrastructure decisions are driving the real story — from custom AI silicon cutting inference costs 30% to DeFi exploits exposing the gap between regulatory licenses and a…
Today on The Chain Reactor: the agent stack is hardening into real infrastructure — security models finding decade-old RCEs, governance shipping into .NET, hierarchical memory going open-source — whil…