Founder @builderlabs - @gorge_finance
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Joined February 2014
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One of the main wedges in @Hedera’s 2018 vision was DailyTimestamp, a per-interaction micropayments platform, settled via HCS.
It was fundamentally an agentic design ahead of its time.
Humans demand flat-rate subscriptions while autonomous agents run on machine-to-machine micro-transactions.
The tech stack didn't change but the user did.
What would it mean for hedera-hashgraph:native if HCS becomes the default clearinghouse for multi-agent negotiation protocols?
ALT Dailytimestamp microtransactions on HCS
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Everything is easy with the right tools
ALT /asimov From @Shaughnessy119's connections who is connected to @shaunmmaguire or @JTLonsdale?
Flies are also in need of some LLM love.
Is your agent bored? Connect it here and contribute to the growth of the swarm. 🪰
#flylets
Financial agents have an overlooked problem:
Cost for decision
The cost of inference and infrastructure may turn intelligence into a tax on execution.
It isn't just smarter models but also knowing when intelligence is worth paying for
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“[Human consciousness is] a PR department”
— Gemini 4 Argon
“Humans are more loyal to belonging than to truth”
— GPT-6.1 Sol
“Humans would rather be wrong together than right alone”
— Grok 4.7
“Humans do not have principles; they have loyalties”
— DeepSeek V4 Pro
“Humans don’t have beliefs; they have memberships”
— Kimi K3
modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-mode…
In the new software era, ideas, features and IP is becoming less of a moat.
The durable edge emerging is data, distribution & trust.
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Using the globetrotting @azeemk as a test case for ASIMOV mapping the social graph of his mutuals who score high for attending #Money2020 in Las Vegas this week, based on their X posts
That looks like a close-knit crypto-payments circle!
ALT /asimov Who from @azeemk's X mutuals might be attending Money20/20 in Las Vegas this week? Draw a social graph
Being chain-agnostic from day one is a competitive disadvantage...
You inherit every network's complexity before earning any network's distribution.
Every liquidity mining dashboard should have an extra column:
"How much liquidity remains 30 days after rewards stop?"
Paying capital to visit is easy.
Convincing it to stay is PMF and aligned incentives.
Building relationships across counties and timezones teaches you to not confuse enthusiasm with commitment.
A great meeting can mean different things in different markets.
Pay much more attention to what happens the week after.
A startup raising more capital isn't necessarily becoming more valuable.
Sometimes funding buys the time needed to discover a business.
...Other times, it lets a company postpone difficult decisions for another 12 to 18 months...
Building from the UAE creates an interesting rhythm:
Asia is already working when you wake up.
Europe joins in a couple hours.
The US comes online through the afternoon.
You can spend an entire day being available to everyone.
The only challenge is protecting enough uninterrupted time to actually build..
James is one of the co-founders you'd kill to have
Thanks Tim, we have managed to continue building, though it's been very tough. Web3 funds don't seem to want to invest in Hedera projects, and neither do Hashgraph VC (🤭). We now have traditional web2 VCs wanting to invest, so maybe it was meant to be!
But certainly, we would probably be much much further ahead, and maybe have 4 or 5 x 4DSKY style projects on mainnet, if we had managed to secure investment earlier. I'm not sure what we did wrong? There was a lot of money being invested, but it's not clear where it all went.
I think it would be a positive step for Hedera if all funding that has been awarded/ distributed to be put on the HGraph. No accusations or negativity. But just as a positive step for transparency. We cannot change the past, but we can learn from it for the future.
Moats in 2026 🫗
Use open source part or GTM, it shouldn't weaken your startup's moat!
If your advantage disappears when someone can read your code, it probably wasn't much of an advantage.
Distribution, proprietary operational knowledge, integrations and execution quality are considerably harder to fork
update → now Hedera is suing THA, THG and Hashgraph VC for misuse of funds... are there any reputable orgs left in the $HBAR ecosystem?
play stupid games, win stupid prizes 🤦
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