Daniel Olshansky

@dberenzon I anticipate anthropic and openai to make multiple "small team acquisitions" when they need to start supporting agentic payments.

Agentic payments are 3 years too early and the protocol wars will be won by OpenAI and Anthropic

OpenAI just acquired Astral. We used to think @OpenAI meant Open Artificial Intelligence. Now it’s looking more like Open Acquisition Inc. Astral. OpenClaw. What’s next?

My entire x feed has become agentic-payment-tech. How about agentic-payment-product? 👀 👇 --- Trust in permissionless networks was solved through consensus algorithms. This was the original solution to sybil attacks. Today, online spam and AI slop is a sybil attack in disguise. The solution is charging for digital action. The infra is here, the tech to seamlessly integrate it into day-to-day workflows is not. It's what we're building at @BuildWithGrove 🌿

Buying is easy. Selling is the job.

@astrorahul_ Imagine where we'll be another 100 years from now.

Throwback to my trip last year to the British Science Museum where I was awestruck by Robert Goddard’s liquid rocket components. Wild that exactly 100 years (down to the exact day) since the birth of liquid rocketry, Canada selected NordSpace to develop sovereign space launch capabilities. What a fortuitous coincidence. We are standing on the shoulders of giants.

The difference between discovery and invention is adoption.

Pick one: 1. CSVs over FTP with a bank or human 2. APIs over DLT with a CRUD Every time I hear leadership from @stripe talk about traditional payments, they talk about how the world runs on CSVs. Made me realize the allure of stablecoins is the fact that money transfer collapses to an API call that leads to a CRUD on a DLT. QED

Re Claude Failing I've had issues on some public networks. I looked into it briefly (a couple of months ago) and saw that their CLI uses streaming. Not sure if it's WebSockets or HTTP2 streaming. I confirmed Gemini and Codex do not do this. Very likely that whatever you use to maintain anonymity doesn't suppor this as well. --- Re Codex Performance Like people, you need to approach them differently. Codex will solve the hard problems and build the complex architecture. But, you need to really plan things out and have a back-and-forth first. Claude is great at just "assuming and generating", and solving the standard ~80% of "standard/boilerplate" coding tasks. --- This changes every month, but as Mar 2026, Claude is a work assistant to whom I delegate, and Codex is a partner with whom I ideate.

The only reason I keep giving GPT another try is that either Claude or the web service I'm using to anonymously access Claude keeps failing — maybe due to exceeding an internal timeout somewhere — when I give him a thorny problem that will take tens of minutes to solve.

I've been switching back and forth between Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on my coding projects. I strongly prefer Claude's style. He doesn't waste as much of my time as GPT does trying to provide unnecessary additions that I didn't ask for.

Cal Newport on how to build a moat as a human in the era of AI. share.snipd.com/snip/f101268c-…

I've found that semi-automation is the antidote to the Pareto Principle. You get 90% of the results for 10% of the effort. The last bit of automation usually takes most of the time. It's only worth it for very mature workflows in production. This isn't an "agents do everything" approach. It's a very practical guide to what you can do on your team. It's amazing that if I had read my own blog post 4 years ago, I wouldn't believe it.

If you've been doing software engineering for a while, you've probably come across the CAP Theorem, as well as the ACID and BASE frameworks. These are used in the context of distributed systems and databases. We're going to need something similar to describe the bridge between TradFi and DeFi. 🌉 You need to account for consistency and latency across: - Traditional banks and chains 🏦⛓️ - Onchain transactions - Your product's data store 🗄️ - A responsive (and optimistic) UX ⚡ Users don't want to wait 1 minute to see a balance update, even if that's what settlement actually takes. ⏱️ SO MUCH is hidden in how money moves. On or offchain.

@zebucus24 Doesn't seem like anyone else cares 😅

@olshansky Yo

A sign of usage/adoption picking up. In the ~2 weeks since I first posted this: Skills: 78.4K -> 87.2K Publishers: 8.1K -> 9.3K Repos: 19K -> 11.5K Downloads: 8M -> 13.1M

@kleffew94 @merit_systems @x402scan Thanks for the tip @kleffew94 If we ever hang out in vegas, I won't challenge you to a game of Blackjack. Shoutout to @merit_systems on a very fun onboarding experience! agentcash.dev/onboard?r=REF-…

This is an awesome product from @merit_systems (creators of @x402scan). One wallet, hundreds of APIs, instant pay-per-use access via x402, and no human billing ops in the loop. I got a $21 bonus to get started. Pretty cool number 😏

If there's anything I’ve learned over the years, it’s this: 👉 Get on top of preparing your taxes, but don’t rush to submit them. It’s very likely you’ll get a bunch of corrected forms toward the end of March.

If this is the content we get from @Nord_Space in the production line, just imagine what's to come once 🚀🌌

An underrated superpower in 2026: single-tasking. First social media. Now agentic workflows. Thirty minutes of uninterrupted reading shouldn’t feel like an achievement.

@yuris How about a linktree for agents?

Build something agents need. Super excited to work with Haakam, Adi, and Michael as they build out the identity and email layer for agents. A year ago, the idea was a little early, but as the number of agents exploded this year, so has AgentMail's growth. 🤖💌

Timeless Carmack advice from 2021. Most efforts at large companies don't have an ROI. To be clear, this is not a snipe, it's okay, and expected. If you've only ever worked at a big company though, you fail to appreciate the stability of "paycheck keeps coming in."