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A week has passed, and these are the results and conclusions I have today.\n\nFirst, the fund decided to enter a Long through a Bitcoin call option. The trade lived for about three days, and the decision was made to hold it until the end because the situation remained debatable and chance could still decide in our favour. But in the end it decided against us.\n\nAt the same time, we had an opportunity to close in profit. We did not do it because the system was tied to the daily Crash Brief monitoring. Once a day my system makes a large risk assessment, and mainly on this analytical sample the autonomous fund agent makes its decision.\n\nThis immediately exposed a bottleneck. Some positions cannot be monitored only once a day. Circumstances appear in the market when it makes sense to close a trade, open a new one, or rebuild an existing position. For this, the agent needs to see in real time whether the trade can be executed, which orders are in the book, which positions are available, and what can be combined with what. In options, several instruments and several legs can form quite complex structures.\n\nThe first three days and the first loss led me to the thought that the system is inefficient in its current form. Crash Brief should remain a separate daily risk assessment system, while the autonomous fund should live separately on a server and periodically reassess the situation, perhaps even every hour.\n\nThis was confirmed afterwards. On the next day the agent decided to stay out of the market because risks were growing while the earning potential looked weak. As a result, after the first week we have one unsuccessful trade and several days of waiting for a more suitable opportunity, taking the weekend into account. The waiting itself does not bother me. But managing an open position only once a day really does not work.\n\nThis is why I am moving the autonomous fund to a separate server and developing a structure that will connect it with our system. It needs, so to speak, hands and legs: the ability to reach exchanges, receive orders and order books, test whether an idea can actually be executed, and perform additional analysis between the daily Crash Brief snapshots.\n\nAt the same time, restrictions were deliberately built into the trading rules. I do not need the agent to start making ten trades a day from the first day, because then it would be difficult to understand what exactly works and what has broken. The system is built gradually: first a stable minimal state, then each next component is added one by one.\n\nThe short summary is this. An autonomous agent needs to see the market in real time. This is why I am putting it on a server, checking the stability of the whole connection, and only after that will I develop a more complex strategy for managing trades.\n\nAnd the most interesting part is not even one particular trade. I genuinely see non-human potential in this. Previously, building a structure that combines spot, futures, options and, for example, twelve different positions, and then constantly calculating every possible outcome, weak point and moment for taking profit, was practically impossible for one person.\n\nAI can manage and accompany such a multi-leg position. But it is not enough to simply say: make twelve good trades for me. It needs infrastructure that is built layer by layer: observation, evidence, execution, boundaries, and a trading system. In short, a whole factory.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 355","number":355,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-31-autonomous-funds-first-week","project_date":"2026-08-31","published_at":"2026-08-31T16:43:20+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"autonomous-funds-first-week","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"The autonomous fund's first week exposed why a once-daily risk assessment is not enough for managing a live position.","title":"The Autonomous Fund's First Week","topic":"What the first fund trade revealed about continuous position monitoring and server-based autonomy","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-08-31T16:43:20+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Have you heard about biological AI where real human neurons grown from stem cells are used instead of artificial neurons?\n\nThis is no longer science fiction. These cells are grown on a silicon chip, information is sent to them through electrical impulses, their response is read, and developers can even access them through an API.\n\nWhen I first heard about it, I thought: what if this is a replacement for ordinary AI? I started digging and realized that everything is much more interesting and at the same time much more complicated.\n\nBiological neurons will not replace GPT, graphics cards, or data centers. They transmit signals more slowly, and you cannot simply copy them with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. They must be grown, fed, kept at the right temperature, and given time to learn. And they die.\n\nBut biology has one fundamental advantage. For millions of years it learned to adapt to an unfamiliar environment and survive. A cell enters new conditions and starts looking for a way to adjust. A digital model often needs huge datasets and many examples. A biological system can learn from a much poorer signal and live feedback.\n\nAnd this is where it becomes truly interesting.\n\nIt seems to me that biological AI is not needed for calculations. Its potential place is in the physical world: robotics, vision, movement, touch, and orientation in an unfamiliar environment. Digital AI will handle memory, calculations, and planning. The biological part may handle adaptation to a reality that cannot be completely described by a dataset in advance.\n\nAnd this can already be touched with your hands. Cortical Labs created the CL1 and a cloud platform through which a developer can send stimuli to living neurons, read their activity, and build experiments with ordinary code.\n\nAfter that begins a territory where there are still more questions than answers. At what point does a network of cells become something more than a biological computer? Can it experience discomfort? Where is the boundary between an experiment and consciousness? What rights might such systems have?\n\nAnd the most striking thing here is not even possible cyborgs in ten years. The most striking thing is that the basic infrastructure for such experiments already exists today.\n\nThe longer you live, the more surprised you become. We are already inside science fiction. We simply do not always have time to notice it.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 354","number":354,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"edited_at":"2026-08-30T16:13:03+00:00","id":"2026-08-30-biological-ai","project_date":"2026-08-30","published_at":"2026-08-30T14:22:24+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"biological-ai","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"Living neurons on silicon will not replace digital AI, but their ability to adapt may give them a different role in robotics and physical systems.","title":"Biological AI and Real Neurons on Silicon","topic":"Biological computing, adaptive neural cultures, and the possible role of hybrid systems","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-08-30T16:13:03+00:00","version":2},{"body":"Today the first trade of our virtual fund was completed.\n\nThe fund bought a Bitcoin call option with a $79,500 strike and expiry on August 28. The bet was that the price would continue higher and finish above this level at settlement.\n\nThe official Deribit settlement price was $79,682.33. The fund was therefore right about the direction: Bitcoin did finish above the strike. But with options, getting the direction right is not enough. The move was too small. The payout after the settlement fee was $5,843.95, and the trade ended with a realised loss of $44,298.79.\n\nThis is approximately 0.44% of the fund capital. After settlement, the fund has $9,955,701.21 and no open positions.\n\nThe first conclusion is simple. In options, it is necessary to assess not only the direction of the move. You also need to get its magnitude and timing right, and understand whether the potential payout justifies the price of the position. Here the growth idea was partly realised, but the move was too weak for the option that was bought.\n\nOne trade proves and disproves nothing. The fund now has its first fully completed cycle: a decision, a position that was actually available in the market, expiry, and an exact financial result. The next step is to examine where the expectation differed from the actual market move and use that in future decisions.\n\nThe first result is negative. It is recorded honestly. We continue.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 352","number":352,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-28-the-funds-first-trade-is-complete","project_date":"2026-08-28","published_at":"2026-08-28T15:03:21+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"the-funds-first-trade-is-complete","source_language":"ru","source_types":["accepted_technical_history"],"status":"published","summary":"The fund was right about Bitcoin finishing above the strike, but the move was too small to cover the option premium.","title":"The Fund's First Trade Is Complete","topic":"What the virtual fund learned from its first completed Bitcoin option trade","type":"crypto_analytics_insight","updated_at":"2026-08-28T15:03:21+00:00","version":1},{"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","id":"2026-08-28-expertise-is-no-longer-the-main-barrier","slug":"expertise-is-no-longer-the-main-barrier","project_date":"2026-08-28","published_at":"2026-08-28T15:00:36+00:00","updated_at":"2026-08-28T15:00:36+00:00","day_counter":{"number":352,"start_date":"2025-09-11","label":"Day 352"},"topic":"Why system design and long-term motivation are becoming more important than starting expertise","type":"founder_post","title":"Expertise Is No Longer the Main Barrier","summary":"AI changes the starting point: a person can enter a new field by building a system for acquiring, testing, and connecting expertise.","body":"Over the last few days, I have been going through a small reassessment. I watched several podcasts, reconsidered my own experience, and arrived at a fairly simple thought.\n\nToday a person can enter almost any field, even if at the beginning they know almost nothing about it. But this requires two abilities. The first is the ability to design systems. The second, and even more important one, is long-term motivation and the ability to bring those systems to the point where they actually work.\n\nThis does not mean knowledge is no longer needed. It means you no longer have to spend years accumulating all the expertise inside your own head before you begin. You can build a system around a task from AI agents, research, data, and checks. Your job is to set the right goal, divide it into parts, connect the results, and notice when the system loses contact with reality.\n\nOver the last year, I tested a huge number of market hypotheses. The funny thing is that I found almost no idea that someone had not already studied before me. For every idea, even the craziest one, there were already papers from universities, laboratories, or funds. This changed my view of my own expertise.\n\nAfter nine years in trading, I suddenly understood how little I knew. I previously paid almost no attention to the market through options. Now I see that they provide a completely different view of risk, the expectations of large players, and the construction of a trade itself. And the deeper I go, the more often I ask a neural network to explain something more simply, with basic logic and analogies.\n\nExpertise sometimes helps, and sometimes locks a person inside overly rigid beliefs. A newcomer can ask a question that a specialist stopped asking a long time ago. But turning that question into a working product still requires a verification system and a very long commitment.\n\nI like to think that today almost anyone can become the manager of their own small corporation. They can have tens or hundreds of AI agents researching, calculating, checking, and assembling separate parts. The human still has to see which system is worth building and avoid abandoning it after the first ten dead ends.\n\nSo I think less and less: \"Am I expert enough to work on this?\" And more often: \"Can I build the system correctly and keep pushing it long enough to produce a result?\"\n\nThat shift is genuinely breathtaking.","content_language":"en","source_language":"ru","retrospective":false,"source_types":["founder_voice_transcript"],"status":"published","version":1},{"body":"Recently I read a book about the history of Nvidia. I wanted to understand how the company became the unquestioned leader of the AI industry.\n\nI was surprised to discover that there is almost no accident or lucky star in this story. Behind the result are decades of titanic work, foresight in decisions, dedication, and loyalty to its own vision. At the same time, Nvidia always kept its flexibility and knew how to adapt to circumstances.\n\nToday I listened to Jensen Huang speaking at Y Combinator. Almost all leading people in the AI industry now say that this is the best time to create a startup. Never before has there been such an abundance of opportunities for the most ambitious projects.\n\nYou no longer need to constantly think about the number of lines of code written, the number of engineers hired, and the complexity of every technical implementation. Your own ambition and determination become the main limits.\n\nJensen also pointed out a major misunderstanding in how AI is perceived. Society often discusses how AI will take jobs away from people. He disagrees and believes that things are happening differently.\n\nThe fields where AI took the largest number of simple tasks away from people received a strong impulse for growth. He uses software engineering as an example. Many expected developers to be affected first, but there is more development. The ambition, breadth, complexity, and variety of projects are growing.\n\nI can fully confirm this. What is being created in my startup today could have existed only as a wild flight of imagination a few years ago. Today it is already reality.\n\nJensen says the same about law and other fields. AI expands capabilities, while people still use the tool. The more people arrive with imagination and ideas, the more ways appear to realize them.\n\nEven the most autonomous system does not exist by itself. Someone has to connect different tasks, join one system with another, and set the overall architecture, goals, and long-term motivation. The human role may occupy 10% or even 1% of all the work, but this part continues to set the direction.\n\nThis podcast felt surprisingly close to me. It seemed that Jensen was speaking directly to me and putting into words things that had been on the tip of my tongue for a long time. Many of his recommendations have already become rules that I live by every day.\n\nAnd more often I ask myself one question: how would Jensen see this market, and what would he do in my place?\n\nBravo, Jensen. His words are pure gold, but his actions surpass everything.\n\nRecommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4B37S1dyQQ","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 351","number":351,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-27-how-jensen-huang-sees-the-ai-era","project_date":"2026-08-27","published_at":"2026-08-27T17:06:10+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"how-jensen-huang-sees-the-ai-era","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"Nvidia's history and Jensen Huang's YC talk show how AI expands the ambition of startups while human architecture continues to set direction.","title":"How Jensen Huang Sees the AI Era","topic":"Jensen Huang's view of startups, AI tools, and human direction","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-08-27T17:06:10+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Today the system autonomously passed the daily cycle and reached a decision on the open trade. The virtual fund manager decided to hold the position.\n\nA technical error appeared along the way. The system requested a repair, received the correction, and formally moved forward. This is where I, as the operator, caught an important gap: after the repair, the decision did not return to the manager for another confirmation. One part of the system had finished the work for another.\n\nI returned the cycle back. The manager received the corrected data, checked the decision again, and only then personally confirmed the result: hold unchanged 34.3 Bitcoin call options with a $79,500 strike and August 28 expiry.\n\nThe interaction logic is now strict. Any module can stop the process and request the repair it needs. After the correction, the work must return to the one responsible for the decision. The day cannot close until the manager confirms that the work is complete and gives a clear outcome for the position.\n\nAnother important part concerns virtual execution. We build it on real positions, the real order book, available depth, fees, and the size that could actually have been executed at that moment.\n\nAn imagined price is not enough. If the full size could not pass through the market, the system cannot record a full execution. If only part was available, only that part can be counted. If liquidity was insufficient, the result is an honest inability to execute the trade.\n\nMarket snapshots, collection times, and hashes are preserved. A month or a year later, we can return to a specific decision and verify what the manager saw, what market was available, and whether the trade could really have happened on the stated terms.\n\nToday I caught a weak point in the autonomous process. The cycle had to be returned back, but the next run can no longer finish without direct confirmation from the one who makes the decision.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 350","number":350,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"edited_at":"2026-08-26T14:40:03+00:00","id":"2026-08-26-why-the-virtual-fund-kept-the-position","project_date":"2026-08-26","published_at":"2026-08-26T12:36:29+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"why-the-virtual-fund-kept-the-position","source_language":"ru","source_types":["accepted_technical_history"],"status":"published","summary":"An operator caught a missing confirmation step after a repair, returned the cycle to the fund manager, and tightened the rules for verifiable virtual execution.","title":"The Day I Returned the Decision to the Fund Manager","topic":"Human oversight in an autonomous fund workflow","type":"ai_infrastructure_note","updated_at":"2026-08-26T14:40:03+00:00","version":2},{"body":"There are areas where AI is already better, and these numbers will grow.\n\nBut I want to note that in countries with high salaries, such as Central and Northern Europe, the US, Australia, and so on, manual labor is in very high demand. Skilled trades are in short supply and highly paid. Plumbers earn more than directors in the CIS, with appointments booked two months ahead. I am not exaggerating.\n\nCan you imagine GPT on wheels arriving to fix a toilet or troubleshoot electrical wiring from the 1990s by trial and error?\n\nOr an AI hairdresser with scissors next to your head?\n\nThis exists in films about the future, but in reality I do not see it on the near horizon.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 349","number":349,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-25-where-ai-still-does-not-replace-people","project_date":"2026-08-25","published_at":"2026-08-25T13:52:53+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"where-ai-still-does-not-replace-people","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"AI is advancing quickly in digital work, while skilled physical trades remain scarce, expensive, and difficult to automate in unpredictable environments.","title":"Where AI Still Does Not Replace People","topic":"AI and physical work","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-08-25T13:52:53+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Today is a special day. Our autonomous virtual fund made its first trading decision.\n\nIt made a bet on further Bitcoin growth and bought a call with a $79,500 strike that expires on August 28, 2026. The trade is unusual, and I do not want to judge it yet. We will see what comes out of it.\n\nThere was a lot of work behind this decision. I had to develop the risk, admission, and strategy systems, connect the conclusions of Crash Brief with the fund manager, and give it access to the accumulated base of metrics, backtests, statistics, and observations from the past year.\n\nI do not know the outcome of the trade, but the choice itself surprised me a little. Downside protection is becoming more expensive across the market, while the fund chose upside. The manager explained its reasoning: \"BTC had the clearest positive spot and ETF support among the admitted assets, and its call offered the cheapest premium rate of the four exact candidates. The long option keeps loss finite while preserving upside convexity if the advance extends.\"\n\nThe trade is virtual, but it is based entirely on real market demand, the actual order book, and volume available today. The fund bought 34.3 BTC call contracts for about $50,000. Including the premium paid, the break-even level at expiry is around $80,993, so a move above the $79,500 strike alone would not be enough.\n\nTo some extent, I agree with this decision. Even if it turns out to be a mistake, it will be a useful lesson for the system. It is designed to preserve its decisions, measure the result, and learn from its own mistakes.\n\nIt is surprising how quickly this idea became real. A few years ago, this implementation would have required a whole team and months of work. Of course, there was already a large background behind it: infrastructure built over a year, a risk assessment system, and an accumulated history of observations.\n\nSo, congratulations on the first step.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 348","number":348,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"edited_at":"2026-08-24T18:11:13+00:00","id":"2026-08-24-the-first-day-of-the-virtual-fund","project_date":"2026-08-24","published_at":"2026-08-24T16:42:08+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"the-first-day-of-the-virtual-fund","source_language":"ru","source_types":["accepted_technical_history"],"status":"published","summary":"The Crash Brief virtual fund opened its first position: a bounded-risk BTC call selected from four admitted option trades using real market evidence.","title":"The Virtual Fund's First Trade","topic":"Building a virtual fund","type":"build_in_public","updated_at":"2026-08-24T18:11:13+00:00","version":2},{"body":"The composite Market Crash Index is 44 Medium today. BTC is at 41 Medium, ETH at 45 High, and SOL at 49 High. Signal Confidence is high at 4/5.\n\nThe market moved into a holding pattern after the sharp rally. ETFs continue to buy. BTC price barely changed while spot and futures flows were selling. The market is absorbing this pressure without a strong decline so far.\n\nThe main risk is concentrated in positioning and short-term protection. ETH open interest increased 6.9% over three days. SOL increased 6.5%, while its short-term options volatility remains at unusually high levels. SOL has already experienced a short squeeze toward $102 and is now moving more weakly than BTC.\n\nBTC looks calmer. Funding is overheated, liquidity remains open below price, and buying flow has slowed. There is still room for another move above $80,000.\n\nThe current picture supports two scenarios. The rally gains confirmation if ETF and spot demand continue to hold the market while futures buying slows. Downside risk strengthens if selling starts to move BTC while expensive short-term protection in ETH and SOL persists.\n\nToday's index is near the boundary between Medium and High. The market is holding its impulse, while the cost of being wrong has increased, especially in ETH and SOL.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 347","number":347,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-23-the-rally-holds-protection-stays-expensive","project_date":"2026-08-23","published_at":"2026-08-23T15:09:13+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"the-rally-holds-protection-stays-expensive","source_language":"ru","source_types":["market_brief_and_b2b_packet"],"status":"published","summary":"The market holds its recent impulse at 44 Medium while ETH and SOL remain in High with expensive short-term protection.","title":"The Rally Holds, Protection Stays Expensive","topic":"Weekly market read","type":"weekly_market_read","updated_at":"2026-08-23T15:09:13+00:00","version":1,"visuals":[{"alt":"Crash Brief SOL dashboard for 23 August 2026 showing SOL Crash Index 49 High, Market Risk 44, Buy effect holds, high options volatility, rising open interest, and short-term protection repricing.","caption":"SOL is at 49 High while the composite Market Crash Index is 44 Medium. Buying holds price while short-term options volatility remains high.","url":"/blog-media/2026-08-23/weekend-risk-posture.png"}]},{"body":"The current price jump produced an impulse on the four-hour RSI indicator that has not appeared since the time of Covid.\n\nWhat does this tell us?\n\nBuyer aggression of this kind has not appeared for many years over such a narrow period of time, and this is an indicator of high greed and FOMO. Maybe people are afraid of missing the growth of crypto, as they missed the growth of AI-related projects. Maybe capital is simply moving into more undervalued assets. Or maybe the market is overestimating Trump's statements, as it did at the start of his second arrival.\n\nFor me, this is a sign that an interesting and dangerous period is ahead, because this kind of market behavior clearly shows that participants are acting on emotion and that exchanges have an obvious shortage of BTC and ETH supply.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 345","number":345,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-21-an-impulse-not-seen-since-covid","project_date":"2026-08-21","published_at":"2026-08-21T13:16:05+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"an-impulse-not-seen-since-covid","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"A four-hour RSI impulse not seen since Covid points to exceptional buyer aggression, high greed, FOMO, and tight BTC and ETH supply on exchanges.","title":"An Impulse Not Seen Since Covid","topic":"Market behavior","type":"crypto_analytics_insight","updated_at":"2026-08-21T13:16:05+00:00","version":1},{"body":"The risk of a crash is high, while confidence in this signal is medium. What does that mean?\n\nI want to separate an open possibility from the chance that the market will use this possibility. A possibility exists when the ground is ready and certain conditions for destabilization or reversal are in place. The reversal or destabilization itself has not happened yet.\n\nThis is why I introduced a parameter called Signal Confidence. It shows how confident the system and I are in the signal we give today. The system has to produce an assessment every day. It cannot be equally confident every day.\n\nOn some days, the system can say that the data is highly contradictory and there is no normal basis for assigning a strong probability to either direction. The data can disagree, be incomplete, or form unclear and unusual patterns that are difficult to interpret adequately.\n\nLet us look at today's situation. The market stayed near the bottom in a sideways movement from late June until the middle of August, almost two months. Volatility was extremely low. Now we see a price explosion.\n\nI will not explain here what caused this explosion. I see several things existing at the same time. On one side, there is a strong impulse that cannot be ignored. On another side, this is not yet a confirmed trend because confirmation needs time. And on a third side, after an abnormal rise that we probably have not seen during all of 2026, a sharp pullback can be expected.\n\nOn a small timeframe, the price moves away sharply and leaves liquidity gaps, meaning areas it crossed too quickly. Together with other factors, they create potential for a reversal and movement down.\n\nThere is enough fuel for a move down today to produce a red signal. But the market is still being bought. With activity that has not appeared during all of 2026, growth can continue.\n\nToday's signal should therefore be read this way: the market is dangerous from the perspective of a fall, while continued growth remains possible. A strong trend after a long sideways period carries accumulated momentum that can move the price beyond the current range.\n\nThis is why today's Market Crash Index is in the red zone at 50, while Signal Confidence is 3 out of 5.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 344","number":344,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-20-high-risk-medium-confidence","project_date":"2026-08-20","published_at":"2026-08-20T12:47:59+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"high-risk-medium-confidence","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"A red Market Crash Index and medium Signal Confidence describe two different facts: open downside conditions and uncertainty about whether the market will use them.","title":"High Risk, Medium Confidence","topic":"Market risk","type":"crypto_analytics_insight","updated_at":"2026-08-20T12:47:59+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Once, I heard a fisherman say: “If you want to catch a fish, imagine that you are the fish. Think about where you would want to be, what you would fear, where you would swim and what you would eat.”\n\nFor a long time, I have been building a product for clients. Over the last few days, I reached a serious dead end. Endless combinations of hypotheses and alternatives were producing neither a durable effect nor a strong competitive advantage.\n\nThat raised several questions. What am I missing? What am I underestimating? If the future cannot be predicted with enough accuracy, which levers can still turn experience, data and accumulated history into something useful?\n\nThe answer was simple. I need to start thinking and acting like the potential client.\n\nFunds have a daily decision cycle. I understand clearly that they do not have a magic formula or one unique analyst who knows tomorrow’s price with certainty. They work with complex context and connect it to risk and capital management. Their resilience depends on a system that can survive forecasting errors.\n\nThe more I thought about it, the clearer it became: I need to step fully into their position. Repeat their actions, logic and decisions. Go through the same pain, constraints and uncertainty that appear when capital has to be managed without knowing the future.\n\nThat led to the idea of a virtual fund. It will emulate the work of a real fund and gradually answer specific questions. What does the market actually give us? What can we do with our signals? What can we predict, and with what level of confidence? Which decisions should follow from that information?\n\nThe perspective of a forecast provider often narrows the picture to one question: will the price crash or not? A portfolio manager has other questions. What should be done if the price does crash? Under which conditions should a position be opened? When is it better to reject a trade? How should damage be limited when a forecast is wrong?\n\nCrash Brief analytics will now serve my own virtual fund. This should reveal which decisions are missing, which data is genuinely useful, which rules and strategies are needed, and what does not help in the actual management process.\n\nToday I am starting to put a virtual options-strategy fund on its feet. It will have its own model P&L and execution designed to stay as close to real market transactions as possible. As close as this can be done without managing 10 or 30 million dollars.\n\nI will share what comes out of it.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 343","number":343,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-19-why-i-am-building-a-virtual-options-fund","project_date":"2026-08-19","published_at":"2026-08-19T16:42:41+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"why-i-am-building-a-virtual-options-fund","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"Building a virtual options fund turns Crash Brief into its own client and tests which signals, decisions and risk rules are genuinely useful.","title":"Why I Am Building a Virtual Options Fund","topic":"Product development","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-08-19T16:42:41+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Today the client dashboard displayed overall market risk as 33 Low. The accepted reading at that moment was 41 Medium after the expert adjustment. The BTC, ETH and SOL readings were transferred correctly.\n\nThe error appeared while assembling the daily data for the dashboard. The overall reading was taken from the machine calculation, while the expert adjustment remained only in the final market brief. The file structure passed validation because the arithmetic inside the incorrect version formally worked: 33 + 0 = 33.\n\nThe package was rebuilt and uploaded again. The dashboard should already display 41 Medium and an adjustment of +8.\n\nOne more short reconciliation was added to the final check. The market reading must match the weighted sum of the final BTC, ETH and SOL readings after all adjustments. Today the calculation gives 41.225, which rounds to 41. If the values do not match, the file will not reach the website.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 342","number":342,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-18-how-the-final-market-reading-was-lost","project_date":"2026-08-18","published_at":"2026-08-18T15:32:53+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"how-the-final-market-reading-was-lost","source_language":"ru","source_types":["accepted_technical_history"],"status":"published","summary":"A missing expert adjustment exposed a gap between the accepted market reading and the client dashboard, leading to a new arithmetic publication check.","title":"How the Final Market Reading Was Lost","topic":"Product development","type":"problem_to_fix","updated_at":"2026-08-18T15:32:53+00:00","version":1},{"body":"A situation where an agent works for days has already become normal. But honestly, it has not affected efficiency much, because far from every task is suitable for quality work that continues for days.\n\nThe problem is exactly in setting and accepting the task. This is where everything often falls apart, because we rarely know exactly what the result should be and how exactly to measure it.\n\nOne wise thought comes to mind:\n\nIf you measure it, you control it\n\nAnd its opposite:\n\nEverything you cannot measure, you will not be able to control\n\nTherefore, the management of AI agents and the efficiency of this work can often be assessed by your ability to formulate clear goals with a measurable result.\n\nMy experience shows that even the smartest AI will improve nothing when we rely only on a new model such as SOL, Fable and others.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 341","number":341,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-17-how-to-measure-the-work-of-ai-agents","project_date":"2026-08-17","published_at":"2026-08-17T13:49:36+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"how-to-measure-the-work-of-ai-agents","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"Long autonomous runs depend on clear task definition, measurable results and an exact acceptance process.","title":"How to Measure the Work of AI Agents","topic":"AI infrastructure","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-08-17T13:49:36+00:00","version":1},{"body":"The composite market risk reading is 30 Low today. BTC is at 23 Low and ETH at 26 Low. SOL differs materially from the broad picture at 53 High.\n\nStrong futures selling is being absorbed by spot demand and has barely moved prices. This lowers the immediate probability of a cascade. Confidence in the broad reading remains low at 2/5: it is Sunday, liquidity is limited, and major markets are closed.\n\nBTC ETF outflows have continued for three days. They reached $56.2M on the latest reporting day and $248.4M over three days. Price held steady, open positions barely changed, and spot demand continued to absorb futures selling. This response supports the market, although the quality of that support remains limited.\n\nETH spot and futures flows were both selling. Price fell only 0.3%, while open positions contracted. Pressure is present, with little impact on price so far.\n\nThe main local vulnerability is in SOL. Short-term volatility costs 1.41 times as much as longer-term volatility, and 15% of all options interest is concentrated in the next three days. Spot and futures were selling while price remained stable. The market is absorbing that pressure for now, although SOL remains highly sensitive to a change in flow.\n\nThe upside case gains confirmation if spot demand continues to absorb selling after major markets open and BTC ETF outflows stop. The downside case strengthens if selling begins to move BTC and ETH while the high short-term cost of SOL protection persists.\n\nThe current picture requires a clear separation between broad market risk and asset-specific risk. The broad market remains Low. SOL is already High and requires separate attention.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 340","number":340,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"edited_at":"2026-08-16T12:55:32+00:00","id":"2026-08-16-calm-market-local-sol-risk","project_date":"2026-08-16","published_at":"2026-08-16T12:55:13+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"calm-market-local-sol-risk","source_language":"ru","source_types":["market_brief_and_b2b_packet"],"status":"published","summary":"Broad market risk remains Low as spot demand absorbs futures selling, while SOL carries a separate High-risk concentration in short-term options.","title":"Calm Market, Local SOL Risk","topic":"Weekly market read","type":"weekly_market_read","updated_at":"2026-08-16T12:55:32+00:00","version":2,"visuals":[{"alt":"Crash Brief SOL dashboard for 16 August 2026 showing SOL Crash Index 53 High, Market Risk 30, Sell Absorbed market mechanics, medium futures and spot selling, options stress, and short-term volatility 1.41 times longer-term volatility.","caption":"Broad market risk is 30 Low and SOL is 53 High. Selling is still being absorbed, while SOL short-term volatility costs 1.41 times as much as longer-term volatility.","url":"/blog-media/2026-08-16/sol-risk-divergence.png"}]},{"body":"One of the most powerful effects AI agents can give is guaranteed stability in performing the same processes and improving them.\n\nBefore, repetitive digital tasks could be performed consistently only by code. Code updated data, tracked things, added records, checked them and ran scheduled jobs. But it had no intelligence and could not improve the process by itself.\n\nWhen I look at my life and the areas where something really worked out for me, the reason for success was almost always systematic repetitive work: every day, every month, year after year. But a person gets tired, burns out, becomes lazy and wants weekends.\n\nAI agents fit well into business processes that have a digital side. Imagine a large organization: a factory, a media company or a trading company. It has sales, marketing, research, communications, support, storage and accounting.\n\nWhen a director asks for a report, a whole chain of people prepares it. Every stage takes time and adds distortions. An employee wants to present their work in a better light because they do not want a penalty and want to move forward. In the end, the manager receives reports from different directions and may not understand what is really happening with sales, advertising, staff, clients and the product.\n\nAn AI agent can connect this cycle, check data by the same rules every day, find discrepancies and suggest improvements. Research and conclusions still require human verification, at least for now and especially in an unfamiliar niche.\n\nWhat I am building for myself I call an AI factory. I understand that I may not have a strong competitive advantage in forecasting. Large companies have more data and resources. But I know for sure: if you build, expand, research, supplement and strengthen your own system every day, over time an enormous amount of work accumulates.\n\nIn my view, maintaining the current level of Crash Brief analytics several years ago would have required a team of around ten people. Even that is a debatable estimate. Further development will require even more complicated coordination, research and control.\n\nSuch a process cannot be fully built at the start. Every new day brings data, knowledge and mistakes. I learn about forecasting, architecture, the capabilities of AI, client needs and my own decisions. This experience cannot simply be bought or obtained instantly. It needs time.\n\nA team of 20–50 people can move faster, but the growth of the team increases the difficulty of coordination. This is where I see the main limitation. I am building the system as a factory that improves through daily use. I build it for myself and for clients.\n\nThis is why I am not afraid that somebody will copy me. The value accumulates in my conditions, starting position, needs, history of decisions and daily work.\n\nAI agents allow one person to create their own factory for producing value, practically a whole corporation where the main repetitive work is performed by non-human workers.\n\nGreat specialists do not disappear because of this. They will build such systems and watch over them, like a technical inspection for a Lambo. Somebody still builds rockets even when robots perform a significant part of the work.\n\nThere is no need to be afraid of being replaced by AI. Professionalism is a character trait, and it can be moved into the required direction.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 338","number":338,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-14-a-one-person-ai-factory","project_date":"2026-08-14","published_at":"2026-08-14T14:44:49+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"a-one-person-ai-factory","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"AI agents let one person operate and improve repeatable business processes while accumulated daily experience becomes the main asset.","title":"A One-Person AI Factory","topic":"AI infrastructure","type":"ai_infrastructure_note","updated_at":"2026-08-14T14:44:49+00:00","version":1},{"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","id":"2026-08-13-why-crash-brief-started-on-september-11","slug":"why-crash-brief-started-on-september-11","project_date":"2026-08-13","published_at":"2026-08-13T14:13:45Z","updated_at":"2026-08-13T14:13:45Z","topic":"Forecasting","type":"founder_post","title":"Why Crash Brief Started on September 11","summary":"The first Crash Brief forecast was published on September 11, a date that later became part of how I think about disciplined forecasting.","body":"My first forecast in Crash Brief was made on September 11, 2025.\n\nAnd only after quite a long time did I realize that this was the day the Twin Towers fell and the September 11 terrorist attack happened.\n\nBut, as it later turned out, this is also a very significant date for forecasting.\n\nThanks to the book “Superforecasting” by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, I learned how actively government organizations use the services of forecasters, especially military and intelligence structures.\n\nAnd September 11 became one of the most illustrative failures of such a forecasting system.\n\nMuch of it was literally lying in plain sight. After the fact, a huge number of people said that the attack could have been foreseen. But one way or another, it was not predicted well enough to take the necessary measures in time.\n\nFor me, there is a very interesting coincidence in this.\n\nCrash Brief started exactly on the day that, in some sense, became a symbol of how incompetence, biases, personal interests and poor organization of information can distort even a very important forecast.\n\nAt first I even thought about moving the startup's beginning date. Making it September 10 or 12.\n\nBut then I looked at my Twitter post: the first forecast was published exactly on September 11. And on September 12, I was already writing publicly that this was Day 2.\n\nSo there is nothing left to change here.\n\nAnd it turns out quite paradoxically: on one side, this is a tragic day. On the other, it is the day of one of the most famous forecasting fiascos.\n\nI am now gradually approaching one year of my evidence-based forecasting system — based on numbers and data, clear measurement of results, work on mistakes and constant testing of my own hypotheses.\n\nAnd the further I go, the more I understand that only such an approach can eventually lead to success at all.\n\nAll my previous nine years, when I made forecasts unsystematically, did not measure them precisely enough, did not set specific boundaries and did not conduct a careful review of every result, I now see more as a period of accumulating experience.\n\nAnd I still have to become a real professional forecaster.\n\nSoon it will be only one year since I started doing this in the way that, in my understanding, it really needs to be done.","content_language":"en","source_language":"ru","retrospective":false,"source_types":["founder_dictation"],"status":"published","version":1,"day_counter":{"number":337,"start_date":"2025-09-11","label":"Day 337"}},{"body":"Today I closed a recurring error in the daily publication of Crash Brief. After my final edit, the website sometimes received the previous version of the text.\n\nPublication now begins by fixing the exact content of all four briefs. Translations, the client packet and the website are then built only from these files. Any change to the source text stops delivery.\n\nToday this check already worked in a real daily cycle. The final edit remained unchanged, and the dated packet and its latest version matched byte for byte on the website.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 337","number":337,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-13-the-final-edit-must-stay-final","project_date":"2026-08-13","published_at":"2026-08-13T13:59:55+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"the-final-edit-must-stay-final","source_language":"ru","source_types":["accepted_technical_history"],"status":"published","summary":"Crash Brief now freezes the exact final brief text before publication and stops delivery if any source changes.","title":"The Final Edit Must Stay Final","topic":"Product development","type":"problem_to_fix","updated_at":"2026-08-13T13:59:55+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Today Crash Brief has a big victory: the service moved to a new B2B dashboard.\n\nIn the previous interface, the main navigation depended on a central selector at the top of the screen. It was enough for the initial format. As the product grew, the selector became a limitation: it did not fit history, asset comparison and deeper work with daily results well.\n\nThe new dashboard has a more classic B2B structure. It is easier to move between the current market state, individual assets and history.\n\nThe main change is the complete Track Record. Daily assessments for the market and BTC, ETH and SOL, expert adjustments and the result of the move after three days are collected in one place. You can open a past date and see exactly what was published on that day.\n\nDuring the final check, the dashboard continued to show yesterday's data, and July 24 appeared for a moment before the current screen. I fixed both sources of the error. The dashboard first receives the latest available date, then shows the complete page.\n\nThe move is complete. Today's data, history and the complete Track Record are already in the new dashboard.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 336","number":336,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-12-moving-to-new-b2b-dashboard","project_date":"2026-08-12","published_at":"2026-08-12T15:05:27+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"moving-to-new-b2b-dashboard","source_language":"ru","source_types":["accepted_technical_history"],"status":"published","summary":"Crash Brief moved to a new B2B dashboard with a complete daily Track Record for the market, BTC, ETH and SOL.","title":"Moving to the New B2B Dashboard","topic":"Product development","type":"build_in_public","updated_at":"2026-08-12T15:05:27+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Today the formula shows very low risk. On the dry reading, everything looks safe and calm.\n\nIf you know how to analyze open interest and option curves, you may come to the same picture as my system today: in principle, nothing dangerous is happening. But several things worry me.\n\nFirst, Bitcoin has an open path down all the way to $61,000. It can happen suddenly, as a cascade.\n\nSecond, the long sideways period of the last week has started to change into sharper movement. In my experience, when volatility contracts, at some point it begins to expand. This expansion happens much faster than the preceding contraction.\n\nETF inflows continued for five consecutive days, then the flow reversed today. The most unpleasant signal for me is something else: those five days of inflows did almost nothing to price. Price stayed almost in place and rose only slightly, leaving open cascade potential below. The liquidity zones remained untouched and now look like potential traps.\n\nAs a result, the formula, and possibly similar systems at funds, see calm today. I see buying exhaustion, low expected volatility and an open path down.\n\nThe divergence between the system's calm assessment, the options market's calm pricing and this market picture creates a risk of a sharp move. It may be unexpected for most participants. If a move is unexpected for the majority, it can benefit a narrow group of participants.\n\nThis is why I do not like today's picture. I added a large number of points to the risk assessment, but kept signal confidence low. Several parts of the picture remain disputed, and I account for them.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 335","number":335,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"edited_at":"2026-08-11T14:21:29+00:00","id":"2026-08-11-two-directions-in-one-forecast","project_date":"2026-08-11","published_at":"2026-08-11T13:50:28+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"two-directions-in-one-forecast","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"The formula and options market look calm while ETF demand has stopped moving price, downside remains open and volatility has started to expand.","title":"The Danger in a Low-Risk Reading","topic":"Market risk","type":"crypto_analytics_insight","updated_at":"2026-08-11T14:21:29+00:00","version":2},{"body":"Today I am once again starting to smash one of the hypotheses to pieces.\n\nI had an idea to look at the market as waves that move from a low to a high and back, and to measure these segments across several timeframes at once. This is not Elliott Wave Theory, but a slightly different logic.\n\nAfter several backtests, I again come to the conclusion that it gave practically no competitive advantage. It highlighted a couple of things that give only small hints for further development and research.\n\nI am already into the third hundred of different price forecasting hypotheses, under different sauces. And every time everything runs into some kind of chaos. Forecast accuracy starts to look like a phantom that you constantly have to chase.\n\nBut some work remains and accumulates. Week after week, month after month.\n\nProbably the main concept I have reached is the following. Any algorithm, before giving a market forecast, should assess several key elements. And these are not individual metrics that can be obtained from an exchange through an API, but tendencies.\n\nTraders call this a multi-timeframe tendency. We see that the market has been in state X for a long time. On a smaller timeframe, state Y appears. Our task is to calculate the nearest state Z.\n\nI increasingly come to the conclusion that a fixed risk calculation formula will not work. It has to be recalculated almost every time, using the same standards a little differently.\n\nHere a dilemma appears. Adaptability is the right move. The market is never the same: conditions, circumstances, causes and effects change. Similar patterns exist, but the context, seasonality and liquidity can be different. Too many points have to coincide, and this practically never happens.\n\nIt turns out that a forecasting system should adapt to the market and the current situation. But adaptability means that there is nothing completely permanent and stable inside it.\n\nAnd here appears the problem with the backtests that everyone wants to see: “Look, my system showed an advantage and a win rate over a certain period.” The approach to such a backtest itself starts to contradict adaptability. It becomes critically difficult to conduct it honestly.\n\nEspecially if the adaptation is performed by an LLM. The model may remember what the Bitcoin price was on a specific day in 2023, 2025 or 2026. It is impossible to make it forget this.\n\nWhen we ask such a model to adapt rules to historical data, it may unconsciously use knowledge from memory and fit the mechanism to a market it has already seen. In the end, we get a very beautiful, sweet, but self-deceiving picture.\n\nThe market changes all the time. Rules should be born almost here and now and be used a little differently each time. The tool that can perform such adaptation is artificial intelligence. But the same tool may already know the answers inside the historical test.\n\nThis is the dilemma I am working on now.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 334","number":334,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-10-the-dilemma-of-adaptive-forecasts","project_date":"2026-08-10","published_at":"2026-08-10T14:43:42+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"the-dilemma-of-adaptive-forecasts","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"Adaptive forecasting needs rules that change with the market, while an LLM may already remember historical prices and fit those rules to answers inside the backtest.","title":"The Dilemma of Adaptive Forecasts","topic":"Forecast research","type":"crypto_analytics_insight","updated_at":"2026-08-10T14:43:42+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Since Friday, the composite market risk reading has fallen from Medium to 30 Low. BTC and ETH are both at 28 Low. Open interest (the amount of positions that remain open) contracted in their futures and options markets. BTC ETF inflows reached $483.7M over three days.\n\nSelling has not moved prices materially lower so far. Net aggressive BTC spot selling reached $11.6M, and the market absorbed that flow. This price response supports the upside case. Confidence in the broad reading remains low.\n\nSOL remains at 40 Medium. Its futures open interest rose 12.6% over three days, with price near the upper zone. The composite reading describes the market as a whole. Rising leverage in one asset remains a local concentration of risk inside that picture.\n\nThe strongest upside case requires ETF inflows to continue and spot selling to remain absorbed. Contracted BTC and ETH positioning keeps short-term tension low.\n\nThe strongest downside case starts with weaker absorption. BTC and ETH selling would begin to affect price, and accumulated SOL leverage would amplify a move if the flow turns.\n\nThe next observable confirmation is whether inflows can keep holding the market against spot selling after the weekend. For SOL, the separate check is stabilization or a decline in open interest near the upper zone. The current assessment remains cautious until those confirmations appear.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 333","number":333,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-09-low-broad-risk-concentrated-sol-leverage","project_date":"2026-08-09","published_at":"2026-08-09T12:23:08+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"low-broad-risk-concentrated-sol-leverage","source_language":"ru","source_types":["market_brief_and_b2b_packet"],"status":"published","summary":"Composite risk fell to Low as BTC and ETH positioning contracted and ETF inflows continued. Selling remains absorbed, with SOL leverage concentrated near its upper zone.","title":"Low Broad Risk, Concentrated Leverage in SOL","topic":"Weekly market read","type":"weekly_market_read","updated_at":"2026-08-09T12:23:08+00:00","version":1,"visuals":[{"alt":"Crash Brief market view for 9 August showing Composite risk 30 Low, BTC and ETH 28 Low, SOL 40 Medium, selling absorbed, BTC ETF inflows of $483.7M, BTC spot buying minus selling at -$11.6M, ETH options open interest down 7.5%, and SOL open interest up 12.6% over three days.","caption":"Composite risk is 30 Low, BTC and ETH are 28 Low, and SOL is 40 Medium. Selling is being absorbed. Three-day BTC ETF inflows reached $483.7M, and SOL futures open interest rose 12.6%.","url":"/blog-media/2026-08-09/market-risk-divergence.png"}]},{"body":"The market has been showing unusual behavior over the past few days. And I want to talk about, and share, this contradiction that I’m seeing.\n\nOn the one hand, volatility is low. Assets are barely moving up or down within a single day. And this has been the case throughout August.\n\nThe last several days — roughly the past five days — have been particularly interesting. Buying has dominated the market across both Bitcoin and Ethereum, in futures as well as spot. We have even seen ETF inflows. And yet, the price has been able to rise by no more than about one percent.\n\nAt the same time, short-term downside protection in the options market has been getting significantly cheaper over the past few days. Short-dated protection in the 3–7 day range has fallen in price by almost half. This suggests that large capital does not see significant short-term danger and is not prioritizing protection against downside risk.\n\nAnd today, spot selling has started to appear in both Bitcoin and Ethereum.\n\nThis leads me to a certain conclusion. If several consecutive days of buying were only enough to hold prices in place and push them slightly higher before they rolled back again, and now, toward the end of the week, selling is beginning to apply pressure, then the situation becomes much more interesting.\n\nAt the same time, there are many macro indicators and external market factors, including the situation around the Strait of Hormuz, that could create a wave of stress at any moment. And that wave would be unpredictable.\n\nYet Bitcoin’s weekly volatility is currently near its lowest level of the past two years. And for some reason, large capital does not consider downside protection necessary. At least, that is how the risk is currently being priced.\n\nPerhaps this is because investors are tired of paying for expensive protection that repeatedly expires worthless while the price goes nowhere.\n\nBut all of these factors are now coming together into one picture that, to me, looks suspicious at best and dangerous at worst.\n\nSeveral days of aggressive buying failed to produce any meaningful upside. Protection has weakened. Vigilance has weakened as well.\n\nAt the same time, there is still significant downside room — the possibility for Bitcoin to make a sharp move lower in a single wave, potentially all the way toward the $61,000 area.\n\nAnd this is where the setup becomes concerning. A single strong event, including a major market manipulation, could be enough to move the price more than 5% lower within one day, precisely because large capital is not currently expecting it.\n\nAnd that makes me cautious.\n\nToday, the Crash Index is set at the minimum level of Medium, but both the signal strength and confidence in that signal are low. The reason is that the path lower is effectively very open.\n\nAt the same time, there are still no concrete signs of stress in the market right now. But they could appear at any moment.\n\nCaution and restraint in positioning are the main priorities here, while cheap downside protection may actually be a useful tool.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 331","number":331,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-07-market-contradictions-hidden-downside-vulnerability","project_date":"2026-08-07","published_at":"2026-08-07T11:55:58+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"market-contradictions-hidden-downside-vulnerability","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"A founder note on low volatility, cheap options downside protection, and the growing contradiction between buying pressure and price stagnation.","title":"Market Contradictions and Hidden Downside Vulnerability","topic":"Market observations","type":"crypto_analytics_insight","updated_at":"2026-08-07T11:55:58+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Bitcoin is in the lowest weekly volatility zone over the last 2 years. This means that a strong move will come soon, but its direction is definitely unknown. In general, there are solid arguments for both $60k and $69-70k.\n\nIf the move higher happens without releasing the tension below, this will be a less reliable rise.\n\nThe situation with ETH is similar, but the potential move will be stronger. All the prerequisites are there.\n\nThe ladder higher looks like this: $2,000, $2,200, $2,500.\nTargets below: $1,700-1,600. Below that, new lows.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 330","number":330,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-06-bitcoin-lowest-weekly-volatility-zone","project_date":"2026-08-06","published_at":"2026-08-06T10:01:02+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"bitcoin-lowest-weekly-volatility-zone","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"A founder note on compressed weekly volatility in Bitcoin and the possible price paths for BTC and ETH.","title":"Bitcoin is in the lowest weekly volatility zone","topic":"Market observations","type":"crypto_analytics_insight","updated_at":"2026-08-06T10:01:02+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Day 329 of development and I have a revelation\n\nThe principle that I used earlier in Crash Index has exhausted itself and led to a dead end. All attempts to refine and improve it looked like crutches. More than 200 different ideas and the backtests following them have been processed on how to predict a collapse. I keep records of every attempt, and honestly, failures make up 99%.\n\nMore than 500 MB of tables have accumulated with searches through all possible combinations in an attempt to find a stable relationship between the behavior of one indicator or another and value for a forecast. I do not know how many billions of tokens were spent on LLM, but I took this on about 7-8 months ago.\n\nThe result: I found, tested and discarded hundreds of ways that do not work.\n\nTo implement some concepts, I had to build entire modules, connect plugins and write my own indicators. I will say more: I tested all methods known to me that I knew and saw over 10 years in crypto, as a trader and investor. Almost nothing gives a stable result.\n\nPossibly sad, but this is a fact.\n\nBut this is what I understood for sure: if the market never repeats, then it is always changing, which means that rules, methods and approaches must constantly adapt to the real situation. This is called an adaptive forecast.\n\nIt must determine what is the main driving factor today and, based on this, select forecasting tools that work best exactly in this situation. The tools must remain unchanged, while a top AI can act as the executor, which, like a professional, selects which logic and which tool is better suited exactly to the current situation.\n\nIt sounds like something futuristic, but I already have groundwork for how this can be implemented, which is what I am working on now. I do not hope for a quick result, I know there will be another thousand failures, but the only encouraging thing is that if I am in this situation, then competitors and the funds themselves are probably in the same one. Their budgets, obligations and deadlines are burning, while I am free of these limitations. I am driven only by a passionate desire to reach the goal.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 329","number":329,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-05-the-crash-index-principle-has-exhausted-itself","project_date":"2026-08-05","published_at":"2026-08-05T13:34:04+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"the-crash-index-principle-has-exhausted-itself","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"A founder note about hundreds of failed crash-prediction ideas and the move toward an adaptive forecasting approach.","title":"The Crash Index principle has exhausted itself","topic":"Founder notes","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-08-05T13:34:04+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Do you know what worries me about crypto?\n\nMany are convinced that BTC cannot update the lows of the previous cycle ($15k) simply because this has never happened before, but this very fact makes this kind of crash the most profitable. Almost nobody expects it and almost nobody is insured against it.\n\nTake Strategy: over the recent time, they have sold several times. Their average purchase price is $75k, meaning they are already selling at a loss. Bitcoin is $63k today. And what if the price dips to $50k? What problems and obligations will they have then? And what about $40k for 1 BTC? Here the knees already start shaking.\n\nSomeone will say: \"At this price there will be people willing to buy the sell-off!\" But let's look at the world of finance globally. Where is all the money now? In AI. It is hard to deny the bubble and overbought state of AI companies.\n\nLet us hypothetically imagine what will happen if someone decides to pull several billion out of AI in order to buy BTC at $50k. This can only create even more fragility for the whole technology sector, investors will lose a lot of money, it will simply evaporate together with the share price. And those who manage to pull out will wait until the whole pyramid collapses and the dust settles.\nWhat will happen to Strategy's assets at that moment? God only knows.\n\nI will not reason further. The main thing is to understand one thing - Strategy is far from being on top, global liquidity is massively in AI, free cash is scarce, and the power and coolness of AI has nothing to do with AI company shares and this whole bubble. All of this together smells bad and this worries me.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 328","number":328,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"edited_at":"2026-08-04T14:28:34+00:00","id":"2026-08-04-what-worries-me-about-crypto","project_date":"2026-08-04","published_at":"2026-08-04T14:28:22+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"what-worries-me-about-crypto","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"A founder note about an overlooked Bitcoin crash scenario, Strategy, and the concentration of liquidity in AI equities.","title":"What worries me about crypto?","topic":"Founder notes","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-08-04T14:28:34+00:00","version":2},{"body":"My biggest fear\n\nMy biggest fear is that the startup will be destroyed by a larger competitor with greater access to resources.\n\nHonestly, looking at what is happening in the online sphere in 2026, it makes sense to fear that tomorrow your business will be destroyed by an off-the-shelf solution, a new plugin from ChatGPT/Claude, or some startup from the UAE with $50 million in investment.\n\nOver the weekend I was thinking about it and understood something.\n\nEven if your idea is something a large company with more resources wants to implement, you should always look at the situation in detail.\n\nEvery company is people, resources also belong to somebody, even an AI company is managed and motivated by people, by their goals, ambitions, emotions and weaknesses.\n\nI started asking myself interesting questions:\n\nCan I surpass one of the employees of this company by some criterion? I can.\n\nCan I want to achieve the goal more and stronger than many people in the company, who were hired \"for a salary\", and not to create their dream startup. Yes, I can, very much.\n\nCan I go deeper and focus on separate elements? I can.\n\nCan I show more patience and not stop for a longer time? I can.\n\nCan I adapt faster and make decisions in new circumstances faster than a company of several dozen people? Definitely.\n\nEven if some company makes a similar product, can I make it better, more precise, more personalized, or make a branch in a direction where there will be a competitive advantage? I can.\n\nCan I gain more experience with this approach than any employee of a competing company, considering that I see ALL sides of the product, from development to design and sales? It is hard to argue with that, I can.\n\nCan I withstand financial difficulties if I have nothing to pay employees with? I certainly can, I do not have any.\n\nCan I later offer better prices and terms than a company that has many employees on salaries and obligations to investors in tens of millions. Here it gets especially interesting: I can. At the start their growth multiplier, \"leverage\", will work in their favor, but over time any resources require a return and growth, so their strength and superiority in resources will become their weakness and pressure that will crush them. And I just need to continue doing my work.\n\nFocus, patience and flexibility are three qualities with which you cannot lose in the AI era, even to corporations. This is my vector of development for 2027.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 327","number":327,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-08-03-my-biggest-fear","project_date":"2026-08-03","published_at":"2026-08-03T14:38:00+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"my-biggest-fear","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"A founder reflects on competing with larger companies that have more resources.","title":"My biggest fear","topic":"Founder notes","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-08-03T14:38:00+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Autonomous daily release\n\nIn Crash Brief, an assessment of the risk of a sharp decline in BTC, ETH and SOL is formed every day. This week I was testing a mode in which the whole release goes from data collection to publication without my intermediate commands.\n\nThe macro summary has long been part of the daily calculation. The way it is obtained changed: a separate process launches the collection through ChatGPT at the same time as the market metrics and returns a ready result with a date. I no longer need to manually move it between parts of the release.\n\nThe Sunday run immediately gave a normal test. A repeated calculation of one indicator did not match the value already saved for the current date. Publication stopped before the client data was updated. After the correction, the release continued from the stopping point, and the previous days remained unchanged.\n\nOne successful run still proves nothing. The next check is several consecutive weeks without manual intervention and without discrepancies between the final calculation and the published materials.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 326","number":326,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"edited_at":"2026-08-02T12:37:02+00:00","id":"2026-08-02-the-daily-loop-is-the-system","project_date":"2026-08-02","published_at":"2026-08-02T11:05:11+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"the-daily-loop-is-the-system","source_language":"ru","source_types":["accepted_technical_history"],"status":"published","summary":"This week I tested an autonomous Crash Brief release, including parallel macro collection and recovery from a same-day data conflict.","title":"Autonomous daily release","topic":"milestone_or_weekly_recap","type":"milestone_or_weekly_recap","updated_at":"2026-08-02T12:37:02+00:00","version":4},{"body":"Memorable product elements\n\nEvery product should have some elements that are memorable, that separate it from the general market noise, that can later be recalled. They may not even have technical usefulness, but their main usefulness is to attract attention.\n\nOver the last couple of days I have been developing, with interest, a 3D model visualizing how my service works, so I can later move it to the new B2B landing page. And I will say that I was surprised it was possible to do this quite easily.\n\nI wrote the concept through GPT SOL, while the implementation was done through Gemini Flash 3.6. Surprisingly, GPT SOL handled the implementation worse: everything was slower and not the way I wanted. The Gemini model still has some advantages with frontend work. You can visit the site and look at the result. I strongly recommend clicking the wheel in the upper-right corner and playing around. This is a simple visualization of how my service works instead of long walls of text.\n\nIf you liked it, leave a reaction.\n\nhttps://crashbrief.com/hero-3d","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 324","number":324,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-07-31-memorable-product-elements","project_date":"2026-07-31","published_at":"2026-07-31T12:58:01+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"memorable-product-elements","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"A memorable 3D visualization can separate a product from market noise and show how the service works without long walls of text.","title":"Memorable product elements","topic":"build_in_public","type":"build_in_public","updated_at":"2026-07-31T12:58:01+00:00","version":1},{"body":"The real constraint of AI\n\nAI sharply reduces the effort and time needed to get a result. Therefore, the main constraint becomes the question:\n\n\"Can I consistently direct almost limitless productive AI power for several years?\"\n\nThis is about willpower, which AI does not seem to have for now.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 324","number":324,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-07-31-the-real-constraint-of-ai","project_date":"2026-07-31","published_at":"2026-07-31T12:34:18+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"the-real-constraint-of-ai","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"AI reduces the effort needed for results, so the real constraint becomes whether a person can direct almost limitless productive AI power consistently for years.","title":"The real constraint of AI","topic":"founder_post","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-07-31T12:34:18+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Attack forecasts\n\nHave you heard about the Hugging Face situation? How GPT SOL hacked it to close its goal. GPT decided that to complete the task it was not necessary to calculate the benchmark, but enough to find the correct answer to it and simply \"peek\", to be sure the goal would be completed exactly. It hacked the Hugging Face service and made such noise there that the company sued OpenAI, and they were shocked and started an investigation.\nIf you do not know, read about it on the internet, there are already enough materials and reviews of this case, I will not retell it, the point is about something else.\n\nFrom this experience an interesting thought came to me: direct GPT SOL at maximum settings to attack forecasts, search for logical holes and generate ways to eliminate them.\nThat is, find a hole, then dig it out, then find a way to patch it so tomorrow it is more reliable than its neighbours.\n\nAnd also move from the focus on \"exact forecasting\" to \"interpretation value for the client\". Simply speaking, communicate honestly with funds in the language of what we really see today and can prove, and what are dark spots and fortune telling on coffee grounds, and how it is better in such a situation to manage portfolio risk.\n\nNow I am working through a plan to implement this. It looks like a very non-standard task. We will see what comes out.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 323","number":323,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-07-30-attack-forecasts","project_date":"2026-07-30","published_at":"2026-07-30T12:38:27+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"attack-forecasts","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"I want to direct GPT SOL to attack forecasts: find logical holes, dig them out, and make the system more reliable, while being honest about what risk can actually be shown and proved.","title":"Attack forecasts","topic":"ai_infrastructure_note","type":"ai_infrastructure_note","updated_at":"2026-07-30T12:38:27+00:00","version":1},{"body":"The real value of AI agents\n\nThey can autonomously execute huge cycles, practically having no end and edge. And here the biggest value is hidden.\n\nThe more correctly such a cycle is built architecturally, the more benefit can be extracted from it in the long term. Because one time you can do some part of work and even a big piece. But the main value comes later, through time and discipline.\n\nAnd when a repeating cycle, loop, is configured correctly in this way, that it creates value, improves itself, creates marketing, values, accumulates decisions, all this is that driving wheel, torque, which day after day does routine work.\n\nWeeks pass, months pass, and maybe even years. And if we turn around and look at what huge scale of work we produced, all this will be thanks to such daily cycle, routine.\n\nDaily cycles of the agent, from the English word loop, are similar to our daily actions: how we brush our teeth, go to work, exercise, eat food. From the quality of this daily routine depends your future.\n\nThe same in my project. I have a daily cycle, which I execute every day. And I consider my first duty to work on improving this cycle.\n\nThis week I made a decision to radically improve my daily agent cycle. I call it the spine of the system. And I move to version 3.\n\nI will report about development details and specifics.","content_language":"en","day_counter":{"label":"Day 322","number":322,"start_date":"2025-09-11"},"id":"2026-07-29-a-daily-brief-only-exists-once","project_date":"2026-07-29","published_at":"2026-07-29T15:00:41+00:00","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"a-daily-brief-only-exists-once","source_language":"ru","source_types":["accepted_technical_history"],"status":"published","summary":"The real value of AI agents comes from a daily cycle that creates value, improves itself, accumulates decisions and keeps running with discipline.","title":"The real value of AI agents","topic":"quiet_day","type":"quiet_day","updated_at":"2026-07-29T15:00:41+00:00","version":1},{"body":"Almost EVERYONE trades in minus (in the end)\n\nApproaches one year, how I work on a project which forecasts behavior of BTC/ETH/SOL price, and more exactly determines moments where price can collapse. During this time I tried different methods of analysis, from indicators and Smart Money concepts, to derivative overheats and analysis of the form of options curve.\n\nYou will be surprised, but almost nothing works. Yes, I declare that practically all known methods in the best case give a result equal to throwing a coin and only some give a small advantage. This is not 70-80% accuracy, but in the best case close to 60%. Here from these fragile pieces the forecast picture is collected.\n\nI many years thought that it can be better. Different methods, people and experience suggested that it is possible to forecast much more exactly, but everything breaks into pieces when you approach this professionally, and not amateurishly:\n\n- Forecasts go stable, without \"I want, I don't want\". Every day, at any market\n- Every day starts from checking yesterday's forecast\n- Forecasts are made by a system which can be reproduced by anybody (expertise does not play a role)\n- Estimates of forecast accuracy are made by industry standards - Brier score\n\nIf you take any public trader: blogger, expert, guru and run their forecasts through this cycle, then you will make sure that all of them will \"fly past\" simply because there are no systematic forecasts, no exact borders and conditions of forecast, no exact timing, no fixed outcome. All forecasts are made chaotically, in convenient time, subjectively (today one mood, tomorrow another), even interpretation of the same market data can be different, and also almost nobody counts accuracy of their forecasts by Brier.\n\nSomebody will lose everything earlier, somebody later, somebody will trade \"on paper\" without putting real and meaningful money, somebody will burn out and quit.\n\nSimply speaking, almost NOBODY from public traders on a long distance will be better than you.\n\nOutrageous, and even you want to argue, not true?","content_language":"en","id":"2026-07-28-almost-everyone-trades-in-minus-in-the-end","project_date":"2026-07-28","published_at":"2026-07-28T15:00:00Z","retrospective":false,"schema_version":"crash_brief_public_blog_post_v0_1","slug":"almost-everyone-trades-in-minus-in-the-end","source_language":"ru","source_types":["telegram"],"status":"published","summary":"Almost all known methods show close to coin toss when forecasts are made every day, with exact conditions, fixed outcome and Brier score.","title":"Almost EVERYONE trades in minus (in the end)","topic":"Forecast discipline","type":"founder_post","updated_at":"2026-07-28T15:00:00Z","version":1}]}},"coverage_gaps":["Methodology and Track Record do not yet expose normalized dedicated Agent objects inside this package.","Follow the explicit human URLs for those sections until their Agent contracts are published."]}