Engineering manager @turnkeyhq. Attorney. Believer in disintermediation, decentralization, & scaling Ethereum. Opinions are my own. ex @ConsenSys, ex @OPLabsPBC
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@flaunchgg has so many interesting mechanisms!
- set a chunk of trading fees as dev rev
- you can also burn your token rather than dump it on holders. 💚
- the NFT "memestream" idea is so cool - you can sell the proceeds from your token to someone else! 🤯
And just IMAGINE when interop is live and you're hopping around liquidity pools across the Superchain! 🔴 🚀
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tk cli mentioned!
git signing for agents
github.com/tkhq/tk
Builders Room: Turnkey Security & Managed Secrets nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/2gqvWWLPR…
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Join us tomorrow for a new episode of Builders Room!
Turnkey's Head of Security, Leo Reading, will discuss security in the age of AI and Founding Engineer, @ZekeMostov, will demo how to store & control secrets without exposing plaintext.
Register here: turnkey.com/builders-room?ut…
I think the market agrees
off the cuff, trump has been a phenomenally bad influence on the culture around crypto. And while I don't like the warren camp and the "anti-crypto army", it was actually a lot more reasonable to build in crypto with Gensler breathing down our necks, because he had more than a lukewarm IQ on subject
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Hey Dems we want a vibe that’s Mamdani + vindictive. We want effective leadership that gets shit done and improves people’s lives. And we want to see the fucking traitors face consequences. Do both.
Cleaning my kitchen dancing to the Hamilton soundtrack 🎶
So grateful to see my country come to its senses!
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In an open letter, Turnkey CEO @sadbryce shares his perspective on the industry’s major security incidents this year, how security is changing, and what teams should prioritize before 2027. Read his letter: turnkey.com/blog/2026-securi…
Feeling all the Devcon fomo! Having attended in Bogota and Bangkok, I know what an amazing experience it will be. I hope everyone has an amazing time and will be watching from afar! Remember to believe in somETHing!
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We’ve spent years building infrastructure that protects crypto wallets. The more active agents get, the more we hear from customers that the same protections need to extend to the other credentials they rely on.
Turnkey Managed Secrets is our next step: bringing the secure foundation we built for private keys to API keys, passwords, and other sensitive credentials your agentic workflows use.
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some of the best crypto companies started at YC (including my alma mater CB 💙). excited to see what comes out of this next batch!
we’re offering eligible YC teams $10K in @turnkeyhq credits over two years + help getting started.
building something in stablecoins, trading or agents? DM me.
At @ycombinator, we're excited to fund more crypto startups solving financial needs including AI capital raising, stablecoins, trading, and agents.
Here's our latest crypto request for startups. Our next application deadline is Monday.
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Worked on this super closely with @prasincs over the last 12+ months. Him and the whole @Anchorage team have been the best alpha customers one can hope for.
Glad we can finally make some noise about this!
Key thing to highlight: attestation docs are used as proofs. Anchorage's HSMs (+ external wallets) trust Visualsign parser's output because they can verify the code that's generating it.
This pattern ("attestations as proof") is widely applicable...excited to see what people do! Code is open-source, go use it!
VisualSign makes transactions human-readable so users spot phishing before signing.
@Anchorage runs it on Turnkey Verifiable Cloud with @awscloud Nitro Enclaves, so every result carries attestation-backed proof of the code behind it.
Cryptographic proof, secured by Turnkey.
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Retail complains about delays, but rigorous testing is the exact reason why Ethereum has maintained 100% uptime since inception.
If u are building the global settlement layer for trillions in institutional capital, security and resilience are non-negotiable.
Be more bullish on ethereum:native 🐂
The Glamsterdam upgrade on Hoodi testnet previously scheduled for October 26th has been delayed. Node operators check your clients for instructions. The new date is TBA.
blog.ethereum.org/2026/10/22…
Use Turnkey. Stay secure!
We are aware of the security incidents reported across the industry over the past 24 hours, including the incident involving Railway.
ether.fi has no exposure to these incidents, and our systems and user funds remain unaffected.
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suddenly putting all the critical digital infrastructure code onto public blockchains so we can verify what is even going on, doesn't seem so strange. And going server-less. We should just put all the apps into blockchain code, too. So they run same every time. Switch not hard...
Ding ding ding
This is how banks are planning to stop those "agentic bank runs." Watch closely: their business model depends on seeding this narrative that AI agents are dangerous.
Remember, an "agentic bank run" (coined by Apollo) means agents helping customers move their own money en masse to higher-yielding products.
Once agents are ubiquitous, there are only a few ways for banks to hold onto cheap retail deposits.
Option A: Raise APYs (lol no)
Option B: Reduce leverage via fewer loans (no fun)
Option C: Ban AI agents, claiming they are a security risk (ding ding ding)
Cloud agents like Muse and Dot are trivial to stop, since they come from Meta / OAI IP ranges. If JPM sends them a cease and desist, they will comply.
Why would JPM bother? Because their business model depends on it; a huge portion of their ROE comes from cheap retail deposits. This is not theoretical. Just like Amazon banned Muse from shopping there to protect their ad revenue, JPM and Schwab have already banned AI agents to protect sticky deposits.
Are agents perfectly reliable today? Of course not. But look at the fix they chose. Not "here's a safe API for agents," it's "no agents ever." That tells you they're not protecting customers, they're protecting themselves.
No company ever wins a technological revolution this way. It's the last gasp of a dying business model. It's like the retailers who refused to put their inventory online and demanded users walk into the storefront. Over time they will lose market share to those platforms that embrace what's coming. Their whole deposit franchise depends on users unthinkingly clicking through walls of T&Cs and accepting 0.2% when the risk free rate is closer to 4%. Agents read the fine print and do their research, even when humans don't.
For users, the answer is simple: local AI agent frameworks like Hermes, that will actually act on your behalf and that the banks can't block. As the article says, if the agent is running on your own computer, they can't actually tell it's not you.
Talked to a normie friend about something like this happening last night and her solution? Let's regulate the AI companies! 🫠 I tried to explain that the cat's out of the bag but she refused to believe it...
Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized AI agents inside customer accounts, some taking actions independent of user instructions.
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, BofA and others are now racing to block third-party agent access.
Banks say they can't even tell if an agent is human or bot, let alone whether it's been authorized by the customer.
axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
