<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Nick Sawinyh</title><description>Nick Sawinyh — Web3 BD &amp; Product Strategist with 10+ years building and scaling consumer apps in crypto, blockchain, and DeFi.</description><link>https://sawinyh.com/</link><item><title>Claude lets you export your data but won&apos;t let you use it</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/claude-export-no-import/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/claude-export-no-import/</guid><description>Anthropic gives you a data export that satisfies GDPR but not the person losing their email account. Here&apos;s a workaround using a local MCP server.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The 2026 AI Agent Landscape: From OpenClaw&apos;s Big Bang to an Ecosystem That&apos;s Already Splitting Apart</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-agent-landscape-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-agent-landscape-2026/</guid><description>A deep map of the personal AI agent ecosystem — OpenClaw, Claude Cowork, Hermes Agent, and dozens more. What&apos;s real, what&apos;s hype, and what it tells us about where AI is heading.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Canton Coin ($CC) Tokenomics: The Institutional Blockchain That Pays Its Builders</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/canton-coin-tokenomics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/canton-coin-tokenomics/</guid><description>A deep dive into the burn-and-mint equilibrium, fair launch mechanics, and economic design behind the Canton Network&apos;s native token.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bitcoin Miners Can&apos;t Hedge on-Chain. That&apos;s About to Change.</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/bitcoin-miners-cant-hedge-onchain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/bitcoin-miners-cant-hedge-onchain/</guid><description>Mining difficulty just cratered 7.76%. Hashprice is scraping the floor. And there&apos;s still no permissionless way for a miner to trade the one variable that determines whether they survive the next epoch. Here&apos;s why on-chain prediction markets for mining metrics are the most obvious gap in DeFi.</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How AI Is Replacing SaaS and Why Tiny Teams Will Build Most of What We Use Next</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/micro-team-token-economy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/micro-team-token-economy/</guid><description>AI is collapsing the cost of software, pushing companies away from generic SaaS and toward bespoke tools built by tiny teams—and crypto tokenization is emerging as the natural funding model for this new wave of builders.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The untapped power of narrative in token investor relations</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/narrative-in-token-investor-relations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/narrative-in-token-investor-relations/</guid><description>Public companies are good at telling stories with their numbers. Token projects have the data — but not the delivery mechanism.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The End of Process Theater</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/end-of-process-theater/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/end-of-process-theater/</guid><description>Your Sprint Planning Meeting Is Already Dead. You Just Haven&apos;t Noticed.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Case for Conviction-Aligned Vesting</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/conviction-aligned-vesting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/conviction-aligned-vesting/</guid><description>Why time-based token unlocks are broken, and what should replace them.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Verification Economy and the Intelligence Crisis</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/verification-economy-intelligence-crisis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/verification-economy-intelligence-crisis/</guid><description>Two competing models for what happens when the cost of cognitive work drops below the cost of a human doing it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scaling Founder-Led Sales: Structuring Your Early Business Development Team</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/scaling-founder-led-sales/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/scaling-founder-led-sales/</guid><description>Practical advice on how to structure early BD teams, based on Web2 models that scale well.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The AI Shock is Coming. The Government&apos;s Panic Will Be Bitcoin&apos;s Macro Moment.</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-shock-bitcoin-macro-moment/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/ai-shock-bitcoin-macro-moment/</guid><description>If artificial intelligence triggers a deflationary recession, the inevitable government response will structurally reinforce the macroeconomic case for Bitcoin.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Pre-PMF BD Trap: Why &quot;We Just Need a BD Person&quot; Is Rarely the Answer</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/pre-pmf-bd-trap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/pre-pmf-bd-trap/</guid><description>Why hiring a BD person before product-market fit is usually wrong — and what actually moves the needle.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crypto&apos;s Real Path Forward: Finance Leads, Everything Else Follows (When It Earns It)</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/crypto-finance-leads/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/crypto-finance-leads/</guid><description>Finance has been the clear winner in crypto for a reason. Non-financial experiments mostly failed to clear the bar.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tokens Can Compound – But We&apos;re Bearish on Default Tokenomics</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/tokens-can-compound/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/tokens-can-compound/</guid><description>Santiago Roel Santos&apos; piece &apos;Why Tokens Can&apos;t Compound&apos; is one of the sharpest diagnoses of crypto tokenomics I&apos;ve read — but its conclusion is already being disproven.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebuilding Tokenomics</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/rebuilding-tokenomics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/rebuilding-tokenomics/</guid><description>Most token designs feel like recycled 2021 tropes that misalign incentives. Here are novel mechanism ideas from first principles.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Most crypto people waste conferences.</title><link>https://sawinyh.com/blog/crypto-conferences-pipeline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sawinyh.com/blog/crypto-conferences-pipeline/</guid><description>Here&apos;s how I use them to revive cold leads, close deals, and fill pipeline — step-by-step.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>