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Lucas
Merit Systems
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Lucas
Merit Systems
@OnchainLu
open agentic commerce @merit_systems | prev @artemis @Delphi_Digital @Accenture @middmbball
New York, NY
substack.com/@onchainlu
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Mar 30
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    Machine Economy 2030
    TLDR: By 2030, AI agents will be the primary way people interact with the internet. New payment rails, currencies, and primitives are needed for the new agentic web. Value will concentrate in three...
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Jul 30, 2025
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    The First TAO Halving: What You Should Know
    Crypto is gearing up for another halving, but this time it’s not Bitcoin. Bittensor – branded as the “Bitcoin of Intelligence” – is approaching its first halving event, projected to occur sometime...
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Nov 11, 2025
    agentic commerce is coming. x402, incubated by @CoinbaseDev, has taken off in the past month, peaking at 3.3M transactions (~$3M!) on a single day so what’s really happening, and who’s positioned to capture this value? let’s take a look at what the data says...
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Sep 19, 2025
    some bittersweet news: my time @Delphi_Digital has come to an end. research @ Delphi has been incredible. i really couldn't have asked for a better group of passionate, perpetually onchain people to learn from. Delphi's Hivemind is 1 of 1. i'll be forever grateful to
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Sep 3, 2025
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    From Bigger Models to Smarter Systems: Inside REI Network
    If you’ve been following the AI race, you’ve probably noticed billions are being poured into scaling bigger and bigger models. GPT-5, Gemini, Claude, and Grok all follow the same trend – more...
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    May 26, 2025
    seeing World raise $135M right as their token inflation hits 600% in the past year is... fascinating timing let me break down whether this bet actually makes sense or if we're just watching the most expensive identity experiment ever
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Aug 4, 2025
    the @worldnetwork ecosystem is gaining momentum. here's an update on what's happened in the 2 months since I published my deep-dive on World -> current high lvl metrics (as of 8/4): User Growth Despite Hardware Constraints? -over 1.8M new humans were verified. that's a 14%
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Apr 21, 2025
    funny how we're building this massive AI economy but still using monetary systems based on vibes if agents are doing most of the economic activity soon, shouldn't their money directly measure computation instead of our made-up human values? this is where @ambient_xyz comes in
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Oct 14, 2025
    we are now <2 months from the first $TAO halving perhaps this is part of the reason for the explosive upwards price action over the past dew days...
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Jul 30, 2025
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    The First TAO Halving: What You Should Know
    Crypto is gearing up for another halving, but this time it’s not Bitcoin. Bittensor – branded as the “Bitcoin of Intelligence” – is approaching its first halving event, projected to occur sometime...
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Jun 4, 2025
    decentralized training generally falls into two buckets -- i think 1 of them has a better chance at beating big tech bucket 1: data-parallel everyone gets a full copy of the model, trains on different data, and shares learnings. this has major benefits: well-understood, low
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Mar 24, 2025
    life update: I'm officially in web3 full-time! couldn't be more excited to join the stacked team @Delphi_Digital and do my part to contribute to a future where tech is democratized and owned (by users) special thanks to @yeahfortommy for crypto-pilling me 🙏🏼
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    Delphi Digital
    @Delphi_Digital
    Mar 24, 2025
    Replying to @Delphi_Digital
    We'll definitely be doing this again and want to thank everyone who participated. Please give a warm welcome to @simononchain, @0x_Arcana, and @OnchainLu to the Delphi team! Be sure to give them a follow!
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Jul 15, 2025
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    How Do Bittensor Emissions Work?
    If you're considering investing in TAO but find the emission mechanics confusing, you're not alone. Bittensor's reward system is simply more complex than most projects in crypto. Here's how it works....
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Aug 29, 2025
    if AGI is the next great threshold, i think embodied intelligence is the bridge to cross it. @PrismaXai is building that bridge. they’re creating a decentralized network that coordinates the collection of the training data needed to make robots truly intelligent. let's get
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Aug 7, 2025
    Replying to @jaltucher
    in case anyone's interested:
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    Lucas
    Merit Systems
    @OnchainLu
    Jul 30, 2025
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    The First TAO Halving: What You Should Know
    Crypto is gearing up for another halving, but this time it’s not Bitcoin. Bittensor – branded as the “Bitcoin of Intelligence” – is approaching its first halving event, projected to occur sometime...
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