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Article banner, Chris Li at @chrisli2046: Ava runs on four layers. The model is only one of them. Constraints in code, changing knowledge outside it, the model specialized last.
Research

Ava runs on four layers. The model is only one of them.

When we started building Ava, we thought the hardest part would be teaching a model to reason about crypto. That turned out to be only one part of the problem.

Chris Li

Chris Li

Ava Protocol post-mortem card: We tried to save a wallet from an EIP-7702 drain. Even the rescue money was swept. Rabby GasAccount funded the address and the sweeper took it in the same block.
Research

We tried to save a wallet from an EIP-7702 drain. Even the Rabby GasAccount funding was swept

One of our users lost a 50 USDC payout the moment it landed. His wallet was carrying hostile EIP-7702 code, and every route we tried to clear it failed.

Ava Protocol

Ava Protocol

Tokens aren't the new dollars. Stripe is buying something more important. A founder post by Chris Li, in reply to a16z's Martin Casado.
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Tokens aren’t the new dollars. Stripe is buying something more important.

Martin Casado published a great piece on Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter, arguing that LLM tokens have become a new, universal medium of value exchange.

Chris Li

Chris Li