I recently got asked to join a well known crypto company trying to grow their L2. It was a typical, fly to every conference try to sign partners, be present at hacker houses type thing. 

I told them they were wasting their time. The only thing that matters is their AI tooling (they have none). That’s the only thing that will bring growth and everything else is just a Press Release.

They were not ready to accept the truth.

what's an example of ai tooling for a chain?

Base’s CDP llms.txt. Celo’s MCP Server. Your MCP Server. Various doc sites that have an LLM built in. I’ve seen good miniapp scaffolding/templates but not good ones made specifically for working with Agents. Documentation teaching others how to use it all, beyond the basic X streams, but those are good too.

I like baking /goodbread and building apps on web3 protocols. DevRel @ ENS Labs

Watch this on 2x but my take is that there are not many blockchain developers and if anything it’s been shrinking and not growing but we just entered an era where anyone onchain can make an app and protocol should make that easy.  It not really about better tooling for cracked devs l, it’s for everyone else. I don’t even use cursor anymore, just Claude Code and a command line. It does 100% of the work.

i've never used an mcp server before building my own the other day, and i generally don't like vibe coding full features or apps. i just tab in cursor and ask the chat sidebar questions

the value of llms.txt is clear to me and great. the value of context7 (mcp server that returns data about libraries or something) seems cool as well and i've installed it. not used yet

i don't really understand what a standalone mcp server for docs would look like outside of that. can you explain?