17 posts
Thinking
Notes from the build, posted as it happens.
DateTitleTags
- Nov 6, 2026More Testing Wins More OftenIn Real SOL's first 8 days, traders who tested 10 or more strategies on paper won almost twice as often. So did the ones who asked Hot Bot the most. Test more. Ask more.
- Nov 2, 2026Close the App and Enjoy Your LifeVenmo co-founder Iqram says Portfolios is what the future looks like. Here's how it works in four steps.
- Nov 1, 2026Your AI Plus Our Trading IntelligenceThe Hot Bot MCP is in testing and the feedback is encouraging. Google's Connected Apps Platform points to one more path: Hot Bot inside Gemini and Search.
- Oct 31, 2026Trading Like a Strategy GameWe introduced the Hot Bot team as characters in a game: HotBot, ResearchBot, SniperBot and TraderBot. The Telegram group is cooking, invites are going out by hand, and the community is still application-only.
- Oct 30, 2026Hot Bot Wasn't Built OvernightPeople asked how Hot Bot came together so fast for the ClawPump hackathon. Honest answer: a year of agent orchestration on my side plus a trading terminal my partner built, which a CEX later bought.
- Oct 30, 2026Agent Orchestration Without the ChaosA year of GhostOps, open sourced as one harness. Policy, routing, an evidence loop, hard gates and reviewed memory. No agent quietly rewrites its own rules.
- Oct 30, 2026Cheesecake Factory vs. the SteakhouseAfter working with both frontier and specialized models on narrow, high-impact problems at companies like Gate, I'm sold. If a specialized model is within reach, it wins. Hot Bot is built on that bet.
- Oct 30, 202624 Days to Launch: We Aren't a WrapperHot Bot went live after 24 days of building. Swaps land in under 50ms (fastest 25ms), we own the whole stack, and Portfolios turned 30 SOL into 63 in a 12-day test.
- Oct 30, 2026Fixing the Front DoorTelegram onboarding has been the biggest pain since launch. We're swapping it out, approving people by hand in the meantime, and the community inside keeps building on top of Hot Bot.
- Oct 30, 2026Monarch Shield Ships: Catch Unguarded x402 Payments in CIMonarch Shield is live as a CI linter. It scans JS and TS for x402 v2 calls that can pay with no policy check and fails the build. Runs local. No account. No API key.
- Oct 30, 2026Hot Bot's North Star: A Fair ShotA handful of people post huge PnLs while insiders, cabals and bundles quietly take the rest. Hot Bot's North Star is putting real trading tech in everyone's hands, the way coding agents did for software.
- Oct 30, 2026We Joined AnsemHack on the Final Day. Then We Won.Hot Bot joined the ClawPump × Ansem AnsemHack on its last day, Oct 2, and took the W, becoming the fastest-growing project out of 24,000+ in the Claw Pump ecosystem.
- Oct 30, 2026What Gate Taught Me About RoutingJune 2026 I started leading AI at Gate. Gate Router's smart routing picks the right model per task and typically cuts token costs 20 to 30%. More tokens doesn't mean more work done.
- Oct 30, 2026x402 Will Eat the World. Agents Need a Shield.Give an agent a wallet with no guardrails and you can wake up to a $10,000 bill. x402 is coming whether you're ready or not. So on April 3 I started Monarch Shield.
- Oct 30, 2026YC Wants Agentic Trading. So We're In.Y Combinator just put out a crypto request for startups that names trading and agents. Hot Bot builds agentic trading. We're applying.
- Oct 29, 2026A Love Letter to the Ghost in My ShellA year into GhostOps. How I run my agents: give them an identity, make them duel for rank, make the losers study, keep watch guards on everything.
- Apr 15, 2025GhostOps, Day ZeroApril 15, 2025 I started GhostOps, my own OS of agents. v1, v2 and v3 in under 3 weeks. On a VPS by June. Everything I've built since runs on it.