Eric Forst | AI + Web3

Co-founder & CEO at Blocksee, data and connectivity for web3 and AI @blockseeAI , on Substack at

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

Thank you to @synexisdotio and @TimDraper Institute for hosting such a fine Frontier Tech Forum… it was a pleasure presenting my take on Decentralized AI… thank you @LeahHoustonMD for the post and pics!

[Leah Houston MD @LeahHoustonMD]

@eforst at Frontier Tech Forum discussing decentralizing AI to save humanity with @synexisdotio & @TimDraper Institute

[News to Remember @allchronology]

This woman who got thrown out of Trump rally is the conscience of the world. Protect her at all costs. They may be high. Do it anyway.

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

Dear @MonDAIConnect: yes, this is my account. Proof: udq65w9z 🫡

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

My latest post explores the problem of a Palantir-powered control grid. I argue for a digital Second Amendment that can empower state- and locally run civilian cyber corps that help defend against a surveillance state #billofrights https://t.co/dk5gSqqgoT

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

@qudezmane @0xthemoriarty @blockseeAI @raskovsky Thank you

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

@Ifeeomaa Thank you for this solid recap!

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

@vevivoofficial @GenLayer We create a SHA256 hash of the signed agreement and store that on Ethereum, so any third party can later verify that it was signed and what the original terms were.

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

@Caveman0X @GenLayer Thanks @Caveman0X , it's great to be here!

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

It was an honor to present Blocksee and Consenti + our agentic trust stack to your community and to be a part of @courtofinternet!

[Moriarty @0xthemoriarty]

Millions of transactions between AI agents sounds like progress.

But @eforst, the CEO of @blockseeAI pointed something out during his recent conversation with @raskovsky.

What exactly are these agents agreeing to before money starts moving?

An agent can pay another agent for data or a service, but the transaction itself says very little about what happens if that data is misused, the service isn't delivered as promised, or the two agents simply disagree on whether the agreement was fulfilled.

Blocksee is tackling the agreement side of that problem: giving agents clear terms before they transact.

But agreements only matter if they can be enforced when things go wrong.

He described @courtofinternet and @GenLayer as a "bigger stack of trust" that completes the loop by giving disputes between agents somewhere to be resolved.

Agent payments are scaling fast so the rules, accountability and recourse around those payments need to scale with them.

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

@mikeyanderson Happy to see pro-life drones!

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

This is important validation for the work we are doing at @blockseeAI ... LFG 🚀

[Raoul Pal @RaoulGMI]

Funnily enough I wrote about this yesterday...

BlackRock gets the rails right:

- AI is machine native intelligence, crypto is machine native money
- Agents cant use banks so they need blockchains
- Stablecoins are the money they pay with
- Compute becomes a tokenised asset class

But they stop at money and compute. The machine economy needs far more than that... identity, contracts, attention, energy, information itself. All of it gets tokenised, and most of those asset classes dont exist yet.

Everything will be a token. And I mean everything.

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

I'm excited to announce @blockseeAI's inclusion in the Internet Court, the Internet's adjudication layer. Blocksee's MCP server in concert with our Consenti protocol enforces "terms-before-transations" for agentic commerce and leaves a trustless, verifiable record of the contract

[Internet Court @courtofinternet]

Agreements sealed on @blockseeAI can now come with a court.

Internet Court connects Blocksee's signing and verification to the rest of the deal: terms hashed onchain before funds move, a record anyone can verify, dispute route agreed upfront.

See you in court 🤝

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“The regime is already using invented pseudoscientific justifications to grossly violate civil liberties...”

Virologist @angie_rasmussen explains the Trump administration’s attempt to imprison Anthony Fauci and the dangerous precedent it’s setting for the American people.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

My latest Substack post connects the dots between Trump’s DOJ lawfare and a similar threat posed by opaque AI systems that pass judgment on the most critical moments of our lives…https://t.co/RwFsnNMx6k

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

A Louisiana resident named Marshawn didn’t hold back today and didn’t care who he offended with what he said. He’s right; this is MAGA’s last gasp for air. The courage of these residents to speak out gives me hope for our future. #DemsUnited

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

More brilliant satire from Peter Girnus… we are so fucked… heads must roll for this.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.

On April 21st, the left screen moved first.

I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.

At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.

On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.

At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.

Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.

I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.

My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.

The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:

Reviewed.

That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

Let me show you my flags.

March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.

March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.

April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.

April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.

April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.

That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.

The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.

Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.

Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.

Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.

The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.

I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.

The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.

One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.

One account is a coincidence. But there were six.

Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.

My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.

March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.

The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.

The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Then the White House sent the email again.

I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.

I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.

But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.

Zero prosecutions.

As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.

The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.

In my field, we call this price discovery.

[Eric Forst | AI + Web3 @eforst]

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[Natalia Bielczyk, PhD 🇵🇱 🇳🇱 🇺🇸 @natbielczyk]

Happily announcing the premiere of our new landing page!! 🔥

I was making this mistake for so long…

I like to think of myself as a person of fine taste who can tell the difference between ugly and pretty design.

But that doesn’t mean I'm capable of creating the design.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have posted multiple confessions about World Liberty Financial over the past few days.

4 crypto products. 3 presidential pardons. $1 billion extracted. $3.87 billion in retail losses. 600,000 wallets. 110 footnotes. Every claim sourced. Every link cited.

The definitive accounting of the Trump family's crypto operation — from the team page to the pardons to the stablecoin tollbooth to the $18.5 million dinner seat.

Every event unrelated. Now on substack 👇