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Authorization Is Not Safety — now on SSRN

The piece I wrote on the verification gap in agentic on-chain finance is now up as a formal paper on SSRN.

The short of it: agents are starting to hold wallets and move real money. Every drain so far happened inside their permissions — they weren’t hacked, they were talked into it. Authorization says an agent was allowed to act; it can’t say the act was the right one. We built the hands of agentic finance and skipped its conscience — and the window to build it is open while the stakes are still small.

Read it free → https://ssrn.com/abstract=7366758

The Trident Digest — Issue 01

Access Was Never the Constraint A monthly field report on the modern trading landscape — where institutional method, retail access, automation, and AI collide. Free, monthly, numbered. Three dates this year, none of which got much attention outside the desks that had to comply with them. June 4. FINRA’s pattern

Nvidia Wants the Neutral Ground.

A Signal — one idea, checked against my own work. Reported, not signed — so hold it loosely: Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for around $13 billion. Hugging Face is the “GitHub of AI,” the open-source hub where a solo builder grabs any model, from anyone, without picking

Authorization Isn't Safety

A Field Note on agentic money — and the layer we skipped.

The Backtest Just Works. That's the Problem.

A Short Form Note — the segue into this month’s Digest. A database CTO wrote a piece this week called “The End of Programming.” Paul Dix — he built InfluxDB — argues the act of writing code by hand and having other people read it is on its way out. Not because

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The Trident Digest — Issue 01

Nvidia Wants the Neutral Ground.

Authorization Isn't Safety

The Backtest Just Works. That's the Problem.