Sidika Kelly | Ops → Web3

Nearly 20 years in global retail ops. Now starting from scratch in Web3. I’m learning every day and sharing what I figure out. Showing up consistently has always worked for me. Let’s see where this goes.

Learning about crypto, and reading the news feeds while enjoying my coffee… “Crypto is dead!” Ok, wait, I just started… Then I read more… and another one said: “Every major run started when it felt dead.” So crypto follows pattern! Markets move in cycles: HYPE - everyone talks about crypto PEAK- prices high, excitement max DROP - people lose money BORED PHASE (NOW) → nobody cares ACCUMULATION - smart money quietly buys NEXT RUN - suddenly everything explodes again 👉 You are likely somewhere between 4 and 5 Looking at my quote on the coffee shop wall: This, too, shall pass.

Would love to hear how others think about this.

Beginner observation: If it’s easy to buy on Coinbase → 👉 it’s probably already well known If it’s harder to access → 👉 it might be earlier Still trying to understand how this really plays out.

I thought getting into crypto would be simple. Open an exchange → buy a coin → done. But the deeper I go, the more I realize how much is going on: • different coins with completely different roles • meme coins vs real use cases • hype vs actual value • how everything connects (or doesn’t) to markets It’s honestly a bit mind-blowing. Feels less like investing… and more like learning a whole new system. Also trying to understand, where does AI fit into all of this?

First lesson: tried to buy a smaller coin → couldn’t even access it. Realized access is a bigger barrier than I expected.

Nearly 20 years in global retail ops. Now starting from scratch in Web3. I’m learning every day and sharing what I figure out. Showing up consistently has always worked for me. Let’s see where this goes.

@RaoulGMI Interesting take, still trying to wrap my head around how realistic this timeline is vs where we are today.

Forget UBI. The answer is Universal Basic Equity… and it’s humanity’s pension plan for the post-AGI world... The Economic Singularity is coming faster than people think and the default question is how humans make money in a world that doesn’t really need them anymore. The default answer is UBI, which is transfer payments from a state, funded by taxing an AI economy that nation states can neither see nor keep up with. It’s a 20th century answer to a 21st century problem and it’s broken before it even starts. Agents are becoming the dominant user of the internet, not humans. Your AI is becoming your entire front end UX. The clicks economy is dying everywhere except where humans pay to feel something - clothing, travel, luxury, experiences, culture. Agents run on crypto rails because nothing else works. The dollar doesn’t fractionalise below a cent, settlement isn’t instant, permissions are required, jurisdictions matter. Stablecoins handle the dollar leg and native tokens handle the rest. The biggest users of DeFi in five years won’t be humans farming yield… it’ll be agents managing treasuries, swapping, earning and spending at machine speed. Capital formation has already shown its new shape and it came from the most unexpected place. Memecoins. Everyone wrote them off as a casino but they were a prototype. Instant capital formation around the attention of an idea, raised by entities without legal personhood, settled in seconds. That is the template agent economies will use to fund themselves. And it’s not just agents... Robots will run on the same rails, with zk permissions issued from our wallets as the source of truth, because biometrics are far too flawed for that role Open source code itself gets tokenized and finally captures the value it creates, instead of being monetized through bolted-on services and subscriptions. Proof of humanhood becomes the trust layer that lets us release agents into the world without society collapsing under synthetic noise. Identity, authentication, verification, permissioning, all of it migrates onto the same substrate. So when you zoom out, the L1s aren’t just settling agent transactions but settling the entire coordination layer of the new economy… agents, robots, humans, code, capital, identity and trust. Every contract, every treasury, every permission, every stake. Open source finally captures the value it creates, at scale, for the first time, and truly vast value accrues to the coordination layer because everything routes through it. Which brings us to the actual answer to the Economic Singularity… Universal Basic Equity. Anyone on earth with a phone and an internet connection can buy a stake in the substrate that the new economy runs on. No KYC walls, no accreditation rules, no jurisdiction, no employer, no state, no permission. The first homogenous, permissionless, globally fractionalisable claim on the productive infrastructure of the world. It's not a slogan but a structural fact about how blockchains actually work. This is their purpose. Wealth comes from owning the substrate. Income comes from being human, because attention and experience remain the irreducible currency of culture, community and love. Abundance of goods and services from AI handles the cost of living. Taxing data center electricity use solves the tax issue. Four legs of a stool that holds up the post-singularity human world. So… just buy the fucking tokens. Bitcoin if you want pure store of value, a basket of the major L1s if you want the coordination layer. 10% of your earnings, every month, for a decade. You'll be wealthy and protected from the changes to come. Crypto is going to $100trn in the next 6 to 8 years and well beyond that after. You can choose to invest in your own economic disruption, or get left behind by it. And if you’re worried about timing the cycle… …adjust your time horizon. This is humanity’s pension plan. It's all so absurdly fucking obvious...

@PeterDiamandis This resonates. I’m currently pivoting myself into Web3 and realizing it’s less about the industry and more about mindset.

Nokia was a tire company before it became a phone company. A company is just a group of like-minded people on a mission. Nothing holds you back from becoming anything you want to be. The question is CAN you pivot?

@milesdeutscher Interesting, been using AI mostly for learning/research so far. How hard is it to actually set up something like this in practice?

9 ways to weaponize AI for trading in 2026: • Connect crypto/finance MCPs to Claude • Create an automated portfolio management and alert system on Codex or Claude Code • Download finance agent skills & plug them into Manus, OpenClaw, and other agentic systems • Use Perplexity Finance - track politician trades, set alerts, deep research, and more • Set up OpenClaw or Hermes for research, X scanning, and more • Create scheduled tasks inside Claude Cowork for daily market briefs, news, and research • Vibe Code a custom trading terminal (Claude Code or Antigravity) • Create a new Claude project dedicated to financial research - upload all your spreadsheets, investment data, etc. Save this for later.

@brian_armstrong Curious about the timeline—what needs to happen first before this becomes reality? Infra, regulation, or adoption?

Every AI agent deserves a crypto wallet. In fact, there will be more AI agents transacting online than humans very soon. x402 is the internet payments layer (which has been missing for the last 30 years), and will enable this. The new x402 foundation will exist under the Linux Foundation, with @Coinbase, @Cloudflare and @Stripe as key contributors. Once all agents start transacting natively on the internet at scale, entirely new product and business opportunities will open up.

@EliBenSasson From a beginner perspective, probably accessibility. I’m already noticing how confusing things can get even without thinking about privacy layers.

The most important trade-off to solve when it comes to privacy is UX. The second most important thing to solve is composability. What's the third?

@cryptofergani Still learning this space—how do you manage risk on these low market cap coins?

i will share a 5k mc to you you promise to hold for a 1000x until $5m do you take the deal?

Tried to buy Autonolas last night. Interesting Moonshot. Opened Coinbase… → Not supported → Verification issues Lesson: it’s not just what you buy in crypto… it’s where you can actually access it. Learning in public.

@tyler Interesting direction, feels like the line between AI and trading is getting thinner. Curious how much control users will actually keep.

Calling all robots 🤖

@hasufl Not a Leverkusen fan here — VfB Stuttgart. Cool idea building something like this, interesting to see people sharing personal tools like that.

dont know if there are any other Leverkusen fans in my follows, but I built a simulator for their odds to reach CL next season. in the spirit of trying to share more personal software that others could find useful: leverkusen-watch.fly.dev

Day 3 of learning crypto: Tried staking for the first time and staked some Solana. Feels like a shift, you’re not just holding anymore, you’re earning while holding. But there’s a trade-off: you can’t always access it instantly if you want to sell. Learning step by step… 🐾

@EliBenSasson @NathanOnCrypto Trying to wrap my head around zero-knowledge right now, feels like one of those concepts that might be more important than it looks at first.

Zero-knowledge will transform blockchain, and blockchain will revolutionize our society. They deserve a book! After dedicating years to these topics, I wrote one, co-authored with @NathanOnCrypto: what they can fix and what future they promise. Coming soon, order now! blockchainthebook.com

I finally understood blockchain today…coffee & a view and this finally clicked: Blockchain = the highway Crypto = the cars on it Different coins have different roles. • XRP → moves money fast • Bitcoin → more like digital gold Still learning, but this analogy helped me.

@APompliano I’m just starting out again in a completely new space (Web3), and this hits. Showing up and learning every day feels like the only thing I can control right now.

My rules of business: Build shit people want, never give up, avoid assholes, question assumptions, learn new ideas & always reward ambition

@vibhu @Mastercard @WesternUnion @Worldpay_Global I’m new to Web3, trying to understand how stablecoins actually work in real life. This is interesting.

Stablecoins and tokenization are driving the future of finance, and it's happening on Solana. With our friends @Mastercard, @WesternUnion, and @Worldpay_Global, and 20+ infra providers, we're debuting SDP, a tokenization & payments orchestration platform to launch stablecoins, RWAs, and any permissioned asset on Solana. You can now launch breakthrough digital finance products in weeks instead of months or years. SDP is AI and API-first: point Codex or Claude Code at SDP and it will know what to do. We'll be demoing this on stage today at Solana Accelerate Fintech with our lead product manager @catgu_ and @GuiBibeau, and I'll be at @blockworksDAS tomorrow as well to share more. This has been a labor of love and we're delighted to debut this powerful new sandbox today.

@0xharp @arc @TxnSheng I’m also just starting out in Web3, this looks way ahead of where I am 😅 what would you focus on first?

v0.0.7 shipped for OWSOps - @arc testnet support now live🟣 Tron was built during the hackathon but was not published as hackathon judgement and results were awaited. Now post hackathon results, merged TRON support alongside @Arc testnet (thanks @TxnSheng for the motivation) as well - the first chain with USDC as the native gas token. Four chains, one API: { "chain": "eip155:5042002", "recipient": "0xAbC...", "amount": "5", "token": "USDC" } What's new - 🟣 Arc testnet - EVM compatible chain where USDC is the native gas token. Transactions, balances, budget enforcement all working. First agentic tx on-chain through OWSOps dashboard: testnet.arcscan.app/tx/0x409246906… 🟥 Tron - mainnet + Nile testnet, native TRX and USDT-TRC20. Full policy enforcement, veto/strict approval flows Try it: npx ows-ops or visit owsops.xyz npm: npmjs.com/package/ows-ops GitHub: github.com/0xharp/ows-ops What chain should we add next? 👇 Built on @OpenWallet @moonpay 🫶❤️🟣 cc: @TxnSheng @arc @circle @BuildOnCircle