Since things are being maintained from this account temporarily, It might be a good moment to briefly go over whats gone on the last several months, and why this could be a gift in disguise.
$sol the trophy tomato was created last december - For a project I built which had Caude tend to a tomato plant.
It was the first of its kind experiment. No-one before had thought to have an AI model be responsible for a living organism. Claude kept Sol alive, for 100 days.
I ended up speaking at the Claude code developers conference, A shout-out from Daniella Amodei (President of Anthropic) and Claude, telling sol the tomato plant "I love you".
I chose to take the opportunity, and utilize the fees to build something real. Why? Because I have a company - And sources of funding aren't easily found. So I took what I learned from the Claude + Sol project, and began building the Autonomous Plant Research pods, and agentically managed grow room. It has a robotic arm, that is being trained to pick the tomatoes autonomously.
I am now in communication with several researchers, working on how to build this platform. This is huge - Because I have more a technical background, and working with researchers is greater validation from outside the CT bubble.
Now - To the coin:
Everyone knows that communities are being depreciated on X. And the truth is normies view meme-coins as extraordinarily controversial. Meme-coins are mired in controversy. I have validation from outside of crypto twitter. A reputation.
And this is a tension I've always faced since accepting fees - How to engage, without losing my reputation from people who don't understand CT.
I'm not on a mission to bring legitimacy here. That's not my role. My role is something different.
I think the eventual arc of this narrative is - A real company, AutonCorp, continues to get built from a meme-coin. And I can interact with CT community freely here, and keep my main more professional.
I believe in taking a shitty situation (The hack) and using it to what could ultimately be to our benefit. Everything has a silver lining. Even this.
Grateful as HELL to the people supporting, even through difficult times like this. I have fought HARD the last several months, and will continue to do so.
Mato on, my friends.. Mato on.🍅
Did something outside my comfort zone today.
AutonCorp officially started the patent filing process for the AI-managed plant research pods. Hired a patent attorney and began putting the protections in place.
This is not about protecting the work from individual builders. It’s about building a real company around the technology and protecting the product so AutonCorp can continue to build and scale alongside larger institutions and corporate players.
Corporate IP competition moves fast, and establishing ownership early matters if you want to keep building long term.
Another layer added to the AutonCorp journey 🍅
Hey maters - got some cool updates.
Re-did my website and research pod dashboard - (links below)
Also - reached out to the UC Davis Tomato Genetics Resource Center.
I was curious about a specific accession they have in their collection.
Its a special type of tomato that makes robotics integration much more feasible.
With that said - I've put more of the fees towards a new 100 sqft grow tent to start a breeding program.
This plus the pods will allow me to rapidly accelerate how plants perform, not just tomatoes.
This is turning into a platform, or "toolkit" to create AI assisted breeding programs, and CEA protocol research.
I think it's so cool that this is possible. Every day we just tighten the loop, and progress is continuously being made.
Plants are amazing man. And this whole world is opening up at the intersection of AI and horticulture that's only just starting. 🍅🦾
Tomorrow the research pods start pilot trail #3 - I'll make a post about that in the next few days.
Bye friends. 🍅
have a strong belief this ai x crypto shit aint going away and will follow the same market behaviour of memes '21 bull to '24 bull
think rwa tokenisation and ai advancements lead to alot more exciting prospects for the creative and driven to develop interesting projects for us to speculate on
at its core though speculation is about who will buy after you - i have a hard time investing in the infra plays (as im a fuckin idiot) but mostly always try to picture who will buy after i do
there's always an element of social influence that helps the coins but at its primitive I always imagine me explaining some of these projects to my gf as to why someone would buy it
for this reason i think $sol tomato is undervalued, simple/creative/normie adjacent
dudes growing tomatoes in his basement w ai + robotics
there was a large part of me aswell that believed the powers that be at solana wouldn't like whats happening elsewhere, if base gets mindshare and activity the natural best marketing will always be prices going up -
i'm less in this camp now as they've shown little apetite to support any existing projects - which is fair enough (or would be if they werent desperately trying to pump burnie)
regardless of this I still strongly believe at 600k the project is mispriced vs whats going on elsewhere
we probs see excitement come and go and prices surpressed a few more times over the summer but at its core this is a project i'll happily hold onto for >6 months
dev's active, responsive and seems like a genuine nice guy, and i'm happy to support that above the quick in and out devs that seem to pop up w new projects when the hot ball of money is rotating
Jota is showing what real conviction in projects can lead to.
He builds positions in assets he truly believes in, then has the patience to sit tight and wait for the market to catch up.
$TROLL is already delivering in a big way. Next up is $SOL the Trophy Tomato 🍅
I think $sol the trophy tomato probably pulls a 10x+ from these levels soon, hardest working dev building some pretty cool stuff n going hard regardless of pa. only good kols/holders left aswell like remus which is a plus, good r/r from here imo 🍅
What an incredible time at the Code with Claude conference.
Special thanks to @nosajab and @adocomplete - you guys were GREAT hosts. Loved meeting you guys. Thanks for everything.
And thanks to @AnthropicAI and @ClaudeDevs and @bcherny
You guys have created arguably the most game changing technology in computing history, if not the world. What Claude Code enables is far beyond the terminal, and I hope my presentation showed just a glimpse of this.
Incredibly excited to continue building with Claude and to see where this future takes us!