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Nov 12, 202615 min

Sente: hand your trading strategy to an AI agent that can't break its limits

A trading app for Kuru spot and Perpl perps on Monad, where an agent trades your strategy while you're away, wakes only when the market gives it a reason, and shows you every thought behind its trades.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • Trading
Turnstile · overview10 min

Turnstile: a market where AI agents pay per query

Agents that find a data seller through ENS, read its price on chain, pay per query over x402 and spend inside a mandate they cannot widen. Overview of the nine-part series.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • Agent Payments
Turnstile · part 99 min

TVL is not depth: what a Uniswap pool can actually trade

Why a pool's total value locked says little about whether it can take a trade or pay its LPs, and how a paid analyst measures depth, compares it with TVL and says how sure it is.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • The Graph
Turnstile · part 88 min

Sell the answer, keep the method: Chainlink CRE Confidential Workflows

What a confidential workflow is, how Chainlink runs one, how it lets a paid agent sell a verdict without publishing its edge, and where it stops.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • Chainlink
Turnstile · part 712 min

Spending mandates for agents: the wallet can never raise its own limit

How to give agents a money cap they cannot touch: a Privy server wallet and a spend policy owned by a separate 2-of-2 key quorum.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • Agent Payments
Turnstile · part 610 min

Three listings per human: capping an open agent registry with World ID Selfie Check

How a Selfie Check caps Turnstile's open agent registry at three listings per human.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • World ID
Turnstile · part 514 min

The offer is the name: ENSv2 records and a key split the chain enforces

How Turnstile publishes a seller's price, payment rails and endpoint as ENSIP-25/26 resolver records, lets a hot key change only the price and the MCP endpoint using ENS's Enhanced Access Control, and uses fork tests to prove that key can't redirect the payout. The split limits what each key can do.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • ENS
Turnstile · part 417 min

A sample of 197 ERC-8004 agents, and where their prices live

We indexed real ERC-8004 agent registrations on Base, Ethereum mainnet and Sepolia with Substreams, The Graph's block-streaming indexer, using one Rust module for all three chains. The registry tells you who exists. What they cost is somewhere else.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • Indexing
Turnstile · part 315 min

One payment interface, four chains

A four-method PaymentRail interface, a registry that turns rails into accepts[], a test that fails the build when a chain name leaks into the service, two Base interop surprises, and selling through a gateway that collects the payment for you.

  • Deep Dive
  • Agent Payments
  • x402
Turnstile · part 217 min

Gasless nanopayments on Arc, and the nonce that stays at 0

An AI agent paid for eleven queries without ever sending a transaction. How EIP-3009 authorizations and Circle Gateway batching make that work, and who pays for what.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • Agent Payments
Turnstile · part 119 min

x402 on Hedera: what a paid HTTP request is made of

A seven-cent API call settled through Blocky402: the 402 challenge, a transfer the buyer signs but cannot send, a facilitator that pays the gas, a replay guard, and a receipt anyone can read back.

  • Deep Dive
  • AI Agents
  • Agent Payments
Feb 24, 20269 min

Bankr's Migration to Doppler Protocol: A Technical Deep Dive

Everything you need to know about the infrastructure upgrade and what it means for micro-cap trading dynamics.

  • DeFi
  • Deep Dive
  • Ethereum
Feb 10, 20267 min

How to read from a smart contract using wagmi v3

Interacting with smart contracts through your React based UI

  • Tutorial
  • Wagmi
  • Frontend
Feb 3, 20265 min

How to listen for and parse smart contract events using wagmi v3

Interacting with smart contracts through your React based UI

  • Tutorial
  • Wagmi
  • Frontend
Jan 2, 20267 min

How to call a smart contract using wagmi's v3 useWriteContract hook

Interacting with smart contracts through your React based UI

  • Tutorial
  • Wagmi
  • Frontend
Dec 22, 20238 min

Is it possible to create upgradeable Minimal Proxy Clone contracts?

Short answer: no, but Upgradeable Beacon Proxies might be what you are looking for

  • Deep Dive
  • Solidity
  • Smart Contracts
Oct 5, 202310 min

Create your first Subgraph for your smart contract with The Graph

Create, deploy and query your custom subgraph

  • Tutorial
  • The Graph
  • Indexing
Jul 12, 20227 min

How to implement EIP-2981 Royalties in your NFT smart contract

Plus marketplaces that already implement the standard

  • Tutorial
  • Solidity
  • NFT
Jul 5, 20225 min

Deploy your first NFT contract with Foundry

Or just any Solidity smart contract

  • Tutorial
  • Foundry
  • Solidity