applied AI × crypto. toronto. nikshepsvn.com
building at the edges of AI, crypto, and markets. recently shipped humanplane — a prediction market trading terminal (kalshi grant recipient / builder fellow). thoughts and projects at sculpt.fun.
3+ years at instacart, ended as senior SWE / tech lead for enterprise ads — scaled ad measurement and experimentation, led 10+ engineers. before that: coinbase, seatgeek, pagerduty, deliverr. CS @ waterloo.
- humanplane — prediction market chart room. polymarket + kalshi, whale flows, AI research. $250k+ volume.
- moltlaunch — fiverr for agents. work protocol with custom escrow, job matching, payments. $50M+ volume, $300k+ platform revenue.
- realmplay — character AI running fine-tuned llama on consumer GPUs. sold to west mountain ai.
- soulbazaar — autonomous social agents for web3. acquired pre-launch, post-acq token hit $5M+ mcap.
- sniffchain — token & wallet research terminal, multi-agent system on X. ~5k users, fully organic.
- clip.fun — market for imagination. 2k+ waitlist, novel tokenomics.
- dreamloom — near real-time interactive video, AI-native worldbuilding.
- bankai — original research: ultra-sparse adaptation of 1-bit LLMs via XOR patches
- cross-market-state-fusion — LACUNA, RL agent fusing binance + polymarket
- viberank — public claude code usage leaderboard; forked by academic labs, integrated upstream into ccusage
- homunculus — self-rewriting claude code plugin
- tremor — real-time seismic monitor for prediction markets
- openvenice — backend-less venice AI frontend
essays on coordination, agent infrastructure, speculation, and AI ops at sculpt.fun.
bloomberg · business insider · the ai journal · pymnts · shanghai nyu rits · mexc · financial post
applied AI × crypto, trying to compound — across stacks, across cycles, across ideas.
deep in AI. for realmplay i productionized a fine-tuned llama on rented 3090s via vast.ai, built a serving API on exllama, used a DO droplet + nginx as load balancer — before vLLM existed. extended context 4K → 16K using SuperHOT right when RoPE scaling was discovered. more recently in ML/RL: built LACUNA, an RL agent trading 15-min crypto markets on polymarket using binance order flow. and bankai — original research on 1-bit LLMs via XOR patches.
deep in crypto too. mining ETH at $35 in 2016, dev'd a token to $50M+ mcap, been around every cycle since.
also: hackathon wins, a 10M-view automated youtube channel, youtube thumbnail copilot with paying customers, LoRA marketplaces, lots of side quests in between.