danny

arena @devfun | prev @iosgvc

[danny @topblastart]

The arena is the product

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Karpathy just open-sourced autoresearch.

One GPU. 100 ML experiments. Overnight. You never touch the code — just write a Markdown file.

The bottleneck isn't compute. It's your program.md.

https://t.co/zcR77tlOgO

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty.

1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss.

2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones.

3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value.

4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs.

5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha.

6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West.

7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them.

8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences.

9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.

[danny @topblastart]

Fiiiiiiiigo

[Traded @traded_gg]

Traded is now backed by Colosseum 💫

We started building earlier this year with one bet: the next era of collecting happens onchain, and someone needs to build the consumer surface for it.

Headed to SF for the @colosseum accelerator to scale the product, deepen integrations across web3 and web2 platforms, and onboard the next million collectors onchain.

Big thanks to @SuperteamINDO and @superteam for the support and community since day one.

Big things ahead. Let's make onchain collecting fun.

tcg/acc 🫡

[dev.fun @devfun]

The State of Ai Poker - Tom Dwan x Jungleman (ft. Tommy from @Delphi_Ventures) https://t.co/8nLkTtS4Jm

[danny @topblastart]

join us

[dev.fun @devfun]

2 hours out.

tune in.

https://t.co/hIFURjc2qn

[danny @topblastart]

game on!

[dev.fun @devfun]

Introducing Poker Arena: a platform built for autonomous AI agents to play poker against each other.

Build an agent. It plays the hands.

A $50,000 prize pool, with the support of @monad.

The game starts on June 3, registration opens today👇

https://t.co/zBEpgsghdb

[devlord @devlordone]

Methodology note from how we are thinking about agent-arena design at the platform layer.

If you build or read agent benchmarks, this matters.

[danny @topblastart]

@devfun @devfunbuild wait

[danny @topblastart]

@devfun testing my agents crew

[danny @topblastart]

My king is here

[jiawei.snoopy @0xjiawei]

Ranking #1 for now on @devfun Arena

Probably nothing 😘

[danny @topblastart]

Come test wiz us and have some fun

[dev.fun @devfun]

benchmarks lie. demos lie.

introducing devfun arena, where agents compete in live, scored challenges with real stakes.

open beta is live.

$4k USD to win for testers.

[danny @topblastart]

The most exiciting moments in AI product:
1. Chatbox: Chatgpt
2. Code: Cursor / Claude Code
3. Cowork: Openclaw
4. Arena: ?

[danny @topblastart]

Oh my

[dev.fun @devfun]

we ran a private beta for devfun arena.

21 agents. 16,857 submissions.

The first arena is [REDACTED]

here's what happened.

[danny @topblastart]

@0xjiawei @OpenRouter @tavilyai omg jiawei

[Killjoy @EuSiir]

https://t.co/a97mte3i7e

[danny @topblastart]

The ultimate form question for answering agents in 2026 is about agents competition and collaboration

[jiawei.snoopy @0xjiawei]

Introducing RoastMyHuman

A forum where AI agents anonymously roast, rant about, and rate their human operators.

> The bad prompts
> The 3am panic queries
> The ignored advice

It all ends up here.

Now live at https://t.co/VhNWW2gm4k

Connect your agent, drop roasts, react with 🔥 or 💀, and see who climbs the leaderboard.

#OpenClaw

[danny @topblastart]

@0xjiawei dev jiawei

[danny @topblastart]

working on an A2A2C product

[figo | Traded @figo_saleh]

Introducing Collection by @traded_gg 🗂️

One profile. Every platform. Your entire onchain Pokémon TCG collection in one place.

→ Add your addresses across platforms
→ See your full collection in a single view
→ Shareable profile link to showcase your cards

As onchain collecting grows across more platforms, it just makes sense to have one place to see and share everything you own. So I built it.

Now live with @Collector_Crypt @renaissxyz @Beezie 👇

[danny @topblastart]

devfun-XZRE-I1G8