CEO & co-founder @oyachatapp | turning complexity into confidence | architect → product lead | civic & volunteer community builder | finding my voice 🎤
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April 2020 was my entrance to becoming a crypto builder! Oya.Market will only be possible once mainstream adoption is realized. Oya.Chat is the foundation for @jdshutt and I to do what we dreamed of 5 years ago. We want to create a future that lets regular people have accessible, reliable, and safe experiences using crypto the way Satoshi imagined.
Our #HackMoney finalists, live 2-4pm ET Tuesday at the Finale:
🌇Sunset Supreme
⚛️Atomic Ninja
✍️Compose.fi
👁️DeFi Support for VS Code
👼GodmodeForTest
⛽️1inch CHI
🎪Oya.Market
🙈Umbra
💧LiquiDeFi
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Vanessa Conyers retweeted
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia:
"Every engineer is going to have and manage hundreds of agents."
The most valuable engineering skill of 2026 is not taught in any university.
No CS program teaches harness engineering.
No bootcamp teaches agent memory architecture.
No degree prepares you to build systems that survive production.
One builder mapped the entire thing out — free, step by step, no degree required.
This is the roadmap ↓
Bookmark this for the weekend.
Vanessa Conyers retweeted
We’re here to make crypto deliver on its promises. Natural language commitments are here.
Vanessa Conyers retweeted
Yes, Sam — but brains are far more energy efficient than computers.
Brain: 20 watts
AI: gigawatts
Biology wins.
Naveen Rao (@NaveenGRao) CEO, @unconvAI
Konstantine Buhler (@Konstantine) Partner, @sequoia
TLDR: Biology currently delivers far more general intelligence per watt than silicon.
"Why can we not build a computer that acts like biology? The single thing that hit me when I was an undergrad, like 30 years ago, and that’s when I learned about 20 watts of energy in your brain, and just how biology kind of does computation. It doesn’t really do computation, by the way. It’s like dynamical systems, but we can get into that later.
My whole career has been about that, actually. When I came out of undergrad, I was like, “Okay, well I wanna build computers. How do I build those?” So I actually became a computer architect. I worked on UltraSPARC III and a bunch of processors, then did a bunch of ASICs, then went back to school to do a PhD in neuroscience.
And I’m like, “Okay, now I know how to build a machine. I’ve done it several times, sort of from scratch.” I’m still no closer to the answer of why computers aren’t as good as brains.
At that time, we didn’t really understand what brains were doing. I think now we kind of do, but at that time we almost thought of brains as sort of magical."
"But Naveen pointed out this is the moment to dramatically reduce power, which everybody knows is, if not the, major constraint of AI, and have a trade-off that’s much more reasonable in the AI world."
Making new friends at @EthereumDenver while ducking out of events to finish grading and submitting scores for 45 Vegas nonprofits for federal funding. Posted up at the hotel getting it done before midnight.
Vanessa Conyers retweeted
No one brings people together like @kartiktalwar and @Ethglobal in our film — now streaming!
Vanessa Conyers retweeted
Crosschain with Kanishk - AI-Centric Crosschain Flows
@kanishkkhurana will be joined by @jdshutt and @Nesseps of @OyaChatApp
Thursday, January 29
10:30 AM EST
Live on X
My braid phase, which is one of my protective styles, that I stopped after getting criticized by a casting director.
Even my cat's pissed off about it.
Vanessa Conyers retweeted
In the near future, new custom agents will be built and deployed immediately to serve every intention. We're creating the infrastructure. Months, not years.
Vanessa Conyers retweeted
Actually love that, and genuine question, doesn’t it seem like monetization within the platform is leading to a lot of the same behavior? Bots seem worse than ever before and people are so incentivized to spam reply on popular posts. Is there any way to mitigate that behavior and make this place feel more authentic again?
So much signal getting lost in the noise here
Vanessa Conyers retweeted
I am disappointed that market structure legislation seems to be held up by the stablecoin yield issue. Most of the concerns bouncing around Washington are based on unsubstantiated myths.
So I've written a new article tackling the 5 biggest. They include:
1) Whether stablecoins decrease bank deposits
2) Whether domestic adoption hurts credit creation
3) Whether banks are major sources of credit
4) Whether community banks are more vulnerable
5) Whether borrowers matter more than savers
Take a look, spread it around, and talk to your members of congress. We can't have new legislation be based on FUD and speculation.
Vanessa Conyers retweeted
How are you using OyaChat? Are you a deep researcher, using our top-of-the-line data and reasoning to study crypto? Or are you a next-gen investor, using plain language requests to trade tokens and earn yield on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Polygon?
I've had a hang-up about posting photos and videos of myself on social media since April 2018. I went through paranoia phases and stopped posting altogether twice, for reasons I'll share another time. The last phase, I never quite recovered from. I used to share so much of my life on IG and FB.
I've grown to care more about privacy, but here's the truth: as someone building community and a startup, being visible is key to building trust and connection.
2026 is the year I change that!
Vanessa Conyers retweeted
narratives i believe dominate 2026:
- prediction markets go mainstream
- ai agents actually using crypto rails
- privacy tech that is easy to use
- defi apps normies can use
- fewer new l2s, more apps
less: new l1s, governance tokens, nft flips, gaming