Yaman Can · Blog https://yamancan.com/blog Products for AI agents, applied cryptography, and notes from the build. en The cluster is the result. xAI is the exception. https://yamancan.com/blog/agree-with-everything https://yamancan.com/blog/agree-with-everything Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT In a 22-model T=0.1 political-questionnaire cohort, all 20 non-xAI models across nine US- and China-headquartered providers answered from the same equality–liberty region. Release drift was family-level, temperature had no common direction, and the country comparison depended on one provider. An image is not a sentence https://yamancan.com/blog/vson-predicate-logic https://yamancan.com/blog/vson-predicate-logic Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT From an analytical-philosophy obsession to VSON: a notation where every claim about an image declares every argument it takes, viewpoint included. Trick the agent all you want. The vault does not care. https://yamancan.com/blog/trick-the-agent https://yamancan.com/blog/trick-the-agent Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Assume prompt injection will happen. Maestro puts ten on-chain checks between a hijacked agent and the money, and is honest about what an attacker still gets. Three agents, one signature, none holds the key https://yamancan.com/blog/three-agents-one-signature https://yamancan.com/blog/three-agents-one-signature Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Chorus runs an AI-agent committee on FROST threshold signatures and ERC-7710 delegation: no key to steal, no authority that was not explicitly given. App islands: an edge you can rent is not an edge https://yamancan.com/blog/app-islands https://yamancan.com/blog/app-islands Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI collapsed the cost of building your own internal tools. Notes on skipping the CRM in San Francisco, and why the next moat is the internal codebase. Why we ship products from cryptography papers https://yamancan.com/blog/ship-from-papers https://yamancan.com/blog/ship-from-papers Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT There is a long gap between a zero-knowledge paper and something a person can click. Notes on how we close it. Hiding zero-knowledge latency is a UX problem https://yamancan.com/blog/hiding-zk-latency https://yamancan.com/blog/hiding-zk-latency Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Proofs take seconds. Players will not wait seconds. What designing Mina Mastermind taught me about masking compute. AI agents need wallets. They also need a kill switch. https://yamancan.com/blog/agent-wallets-guardrails https://yamancan.com/blog/agent-wallets-guardrails Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Off-chain guardrails are bypassable middleware. The case for putting agent spending policy on-chain.