Nick Sawinyh — Web3 BD & Product Strategist with 10+ years building and scaling consumer apps in crypto, blockchain, and DeFi.https://sawinyh.com/https://sawinyh.com/blog/canton-cip-0114-dat-program/https://sawinyh.com/blog/canton-cip-0114-dat-program/Canton's new Digital Asset Treasury program lets public companies trade $100M+ of locked CC for protocol governance weight. A walk through the spec, the precursor (Tharimmune), the securities question, and where the supply math is fair.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/greenfield-vs-brownfield-ai-codebases/https://sawinyh.com/blog/greenfield-vs-brownfield-ai-codebases/Three codebases walk into 2026: one built for agents from commit #1, one built by humans years ago, and one vibecoded six months back with no rules. The playbook is different for each, and only one of them is genuinely hard.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/bittensor-tao-tokenomics/https://sawinyh.com/blog/bittensor-tao-tokenomics/TAO's elegant fair-launch tokenomics and flow-based emissions meet a 10-40x subsidy-to-revenue gap. A deep analysis of dTAO mechanics, the Covenant AI exit, BIT-0011, competitors like Prime Intellect and Nous, and explicit scenario math on fair value.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/openclaw-vs-hermes-cron/https://sawinyh.com/blog/openclaw-vs-hermes-cron/Both projects give their agent a cron system. The file layouts rhyme, the feature matrices overlap, and the design bets underneath are almost opposites.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/openai-public-wealth-fund/https://sawinyh.com/blog/openai-public-wealth-fund/OpenAI's proposed Public Wealth Fund meets Citrini Research's doomsday scenario. A deep analysis of whether redistributing AI-driven gains would cause inflation, reshape asset prices, or arrive too late to matter.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-bdr-sidekick/https://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-bdr-sidekick/I used to spend my mornings doing research that didn't require my judgment. Here's what I built to stop, three AI skills, one orchestrator, and a CRM hook that replaced two hours of daily legwork.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/claude-export-no-import/https://sawinyh.com/blog/claude-export-no-import/Anthropic gives you a data export that satisfies GDPR but not the person losing their email account. Here's a workaround using a local MCP server.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-agent-landscape-2026/https://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-agent-landscape-2026/A deep map of the personal AI agent ecosystem — OpenClaw, Claude Cowork, Hermes Agent, and dozens more. What's real, what's hype, and what it tells us about where AI is heading.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/canton-coin-tokenomics/https://sawinyh.com/blog/canton-coin-tokenomics/A deep dive into the burn-and-mint equilibrium, fair launch mechanics, and economic design behind the Canton Network's native token.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/bitcoin-miners-cant-hedge-onchain/https://sawinyh.com/blog/bitcoin-miners-cant-hedge-onchain/Mining difficulty just cratered 7.76%. Hashprice is scraping the floor. And there's still no permissionless way for a miner to trade the one variable that determines whether they survive the next epoch. Here's why on-chain prediction markets for mining metrics are the most obvious gap in DeFi.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/micro-team-token-economy/https://sawinyh.com/blog/micro-team-token-economy/AI is collapsing the cost of software, pushing companies away from generic SaaS and toward bespoke tools built by tiny teams—and crypto tokenization is emerging as the natural funding model for this new wave of builders.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/narrative-in-token-investor-relations/https://sawinyh.com/blog/narrative-in-token-investor-relations/Public companies are good at telling stories with their numbers. Token projects have the data — but not the delivery mechanism.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/end-of-process-theater/https://sawinyh.com/blog/end-of-process-theater/Your Sprint Planning Meeting Is Already Dead. You Just Haven't Noticed.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/conviction-aligned-vesting/https://sawinyh.com/blog/conviction-aligned-vesting/Why time-based token unlocks are broken, and what should replace them.Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/verification-economy-intelligence-crisis/https://sawinyh.com/blog/verification-economy-intelligence-crisis/Two competing models for what happens when the cost of cognitive work drops below the cost of a human doing it.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/scaling-founder-led-sales/https://sawinyh.com/blog/scaling-founder-led-sales/Practical advice on how to structure early BD teams, based on Web2 models that scale well.Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-shock-bitcoin-macro-moment/https://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-shock-bitcoin-macro-moment/If artificial intelligence triggers a deflationary recession, the inevitable government response will structurally reinforce the macroeconomic case for Bitcoin.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/pre-pmf-bd-trap/https://sawinyh.com/blog/pre-pmf-bd-trap/Why hiring a BD person before product-market fit is usually wrong — and what actually moves the needle.Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/crypto-finance-leads/https://sawinyh.com/blog/crypto-finance-leads/Finance has been the clear winner in crypto for a reason. Non-financial experiments mostly failed to clear the bar.Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/tokens-can-compound/https://sawinyh.com/blog/tokens-can-compound/Santiago Roel Santos' piece 'Why Tokens Can't Compound' is one of the sharpest diagnoses of crypto tokenomics I've read — but its conclusion is already being disproven.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/rebuilding-tokenomics/https://sawinyh.com/blog/rebuilding-tokenomics/Most token designs feel like recycled 2021 tropes that misalign incentives. Here are novel mechanism ideas from first principles.Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sawinyh.com/blog/crypto-conferences-pipeline/https://sawinyh.com/blog/crypto-conferences-pipeline/Here's how I use them to revive cold leads, close deals, and fill pipeline — step-by-step.Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT