Karthik Senthil
@karthiksenthil
building @zksync, venture partner @latticefund, co-founder chainstory.xyz & writer karthikoncrypto.xyz, FID 681
The agents and apps won't make it just b/c they have AI.
They'll be continually leveraging AI across all dimensions (generative UX, decision making, autonomous execution) to make the experience for users better
every company wants to be an AI company nowadays, but where does AI actually make sense?
did some thinking around how to conceptualize AI's role in the consumer application stack across invisible backend optimization, AI entertainment, and creative tooling as social behaviors https://www.archetype.fund/...
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Deciding to do a thing and start a weekly newsletter called "The AI Stack".
Check out my first post where I discuss what the AI stack is and why we're in the early innings of transition from the software stack:
theaistackishere.beehiiv.com/p/1-the-emer...
Check it out, LMK what you think!
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Some bittersweet news: this week is my last week at
@zksync
The last ~16 months have been an amazing journey filled with experiences I never imagined I'd have a chance to do in crypto including owning one of the industry's largest ecosystems in Era, driving one of the biggest airdrops with our TGE, and designing a De...
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This was my college phone 🥹 (without the dope case)
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Starting my screenshot essay arc again (did this back in on Farcaster back in late 2022/early 2023 and really enjoyed it).
Planning to write 2-3 of these a week on various AI and crypto topics. Here's my first -- what do you think?
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The next big "L1" opportunity isn't higher TPS or lower fees for smart contract devs.
It's making crypto rails accessible to a new, emerging set of builders: AI app / agent devs.
AI devs will build on crypto rails for two reasons:
1. Create product differentiation and lock-in by incentivizing users via tokens to cont...
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gm all!
I wrote a piece on X on why I believe crypto rails will be valuable to AI builders in a hopefully first-principles, product-focused away: x.com/karsenthil/s...
Curious what everyone here thinks!
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gm. I'm super excited to more publicly share my new role at Matter Labs as the head of ZKsync Era.
Some quick thoughts 👇
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Hot take: AA/embedded wallets are a feature, not a product.
To make crypto UX > web2 UX, we need to take a bolder swing that also addresses other important user and developer unmet needs.
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