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Got to meet the famous Amira Alawi at Philippine Blockchain Week. Let’s see if we can do something together in the Philippines to socialise KRNL Labs

They told me I had to take a picture and post it to get a free drink at the closing party at Philippine Blockchain Week 😉

Just landed back in Bangkok, Thailand from my trip in Manila, Philippines and the Philippine Blockchain Week. I’ll say this in the kindest words I possibly can, the event needs new organisers as this one didn’t do justice to the Philippines and their Web3 community.

A day in the life of a crypto founder

Love how Slack still says “Twitter” in its “Advanced setting”. Just shows you how on of the most prolific applications it still not able to do a great job 🤣. Imagine if you did a simple search and replace or even just add a smidgen of AI. #slack

AI onchain is useless if it’s UNVERIFIABLE. That’s not decentralization, it’s just a black box on a blockchain. The only path forward is cryptographic proofs of off-chain execution. If you can’t prove it, don’t run it.

📢 IXO™2025: Proof of Business 🗓 June 24–25 | 📍 Textile Center 3F, Seoul 💡 Real Web3. Real Business. Real Value. 🤝 Builders. Investors. Disruptors. Tahir (KRNL Labs, Co-Founder/CTO) Tahir Mahmood

Spoke at the Onchain Bootcamp 2025 at Chulalongkorn University about the future of finance and what happens when AI meets onchain systems. Big shoutout to the CUBS team for putting it together, the energy, curiosity, and sharp thinking from the students was real. The next wave

I wonder what it feels like when you find out you’ve been played by another criminal 🫣

Spoke at IXO 2025 in Seoul last week on the future of infrastructure & DePIN. Was great to share what we’re building at KRNL and why verifiable systems matter. Korea's builder energy is real, focused, technical, and fast. Grateful to be part of it. Let’s keep pushing.

That’s my trip to Seoul, Korea and the IXO 2025 event over. I’m now on the flight back to Bangkok, Thailand with my AI agent Max Prasertsan 😂

Next stop Dubai for three days of meetings then onto Nice, France on 29th to attend EthCC in Cannes.

The smart contract stack is 10 years old. ~ Still can’t natively check an API. ~ Still can’t enforce a compliance policy. ~ Still can’t reason about offchain logic. That’s not innovation. That’s inertia.

zk everything, AI everywhere, modular rollups all around. You can keep piling features on L2s, Or you can rethink what execution even means. Pre-tx logic. External triggers. Verifiable compute. That’s where infra is heading.

How do you know you’re in Cannes, France? Is it ethCC or the supercars 🤩

Random thoughts about EthCC : - Cannes is beautiful, but €8 espressos filter out the tourists. - Spoke on verifiable AI + DePIN and builders love the concept, enterprises love the audit trail. - Circle Gateway enables unified USDC balances across chains, no prefunding, fully

Don’t compare us to oracle networks. We don’t need a staking layer to vouch for AI outputs. At KRNL, the attestation is embedded in the DAG logic. Self-contained, cryptographic, and auditable. No middlemen.

Left my co-founder asim.eth stranded in Nice after attending ethCC when the French air traffic controllers started their strike. My flight to Saudi Arabia got cancelled so I decided to run home to Dubai 😫

People still ask what the “CC” in EthCC stands for. It’s not “crypto carnival” (though Cannes does its best). It’s Community Conference, the only Ethereum gathering that still feels like it. Builders > booths.

“What if the model changes?” Good question. With KRNL’s AI Kernel, we fingerprint every model binary into the PoP. If someone swaps it, the proof breaks. No proof = no trust. It’s that simple.