Builder Journal
Experiments, working setups, and the actual process behind Thetasimplified.
Late night thoughts on Theta's critics
Reading the long X threads dismissing Theta. Where they're right, where they're wrong, and why the timeline question is still genuinely open.
- Theta
- Analysis
- Opinion
- Notes
From Step Video to a working intro
Two text-to-video jobs on Theta EdgeCloud, one Remotion composition, and an intro I can actually use. Including what the data points say — and what they don't.
- Theta EdgeCloud
- Step Video
- Remotion
- Builder Log
How I built TFUEL absorption rate — and what broke along the way
TFUEL absorption rate is a number I track because it's the cleanest signal that TFUEL is being used as fuel, not just generated. Here's how the metric works, what went wrong building it, and why the historical data isn't fully reliable.
- TFUEL
- Methodology
- Builder Log
- Notes
Four numbers I actually watch to read Theta's trajectory
There are too many ways to measure a blockchain. Here's how I cut it down to four — what I excluded, what I kept, and why I think trajectory matters more than any single number.
- Analysis
- Theta
- Methodology
- Notes
Late night thoughts on TFUEL, the utility token
Not the volume. Not the savings. Just the fact that I can. A few days into running my chatbot on TFUEL I earned from staking — and a small observation about what tokens are actually for.
- TFUEL
- EdgeCloud
- Builder Log
- Notes
Transcribing Theta's own AMA on Theta's own Whisper
65 minutes of audio. About 5 minutes of processing. Cost so small Theta's billing UI didn't flinch. Here's what happened when I ran Whisper on Theta EdgeCloud against Theta Labs' own April AMA.
- Whisper
- EdgeCloud
- AMA
- Builder Log
Running a multi-step AI pipeline on Theta — text, image, vision
Three Theta models, three modalities, one MCP-orchestrated flow. What worked, what didn't, and what 'no instances available' actually means in practice.
- MCP
- EdgeCloud
- Multi-step
- Builder Log
2 min readTeaching my chatbot what's actually true
Built an AI chatbot for Thetasimplified. It hallucinated fundamental Theta facts. Here's the fix and what I learned.
- Chatbot
- Hallucinations
- Fact Cards
- Builder Log
4 min readCalling Theta EdgeCloud directly from Claude — a working MCP setup
I wired Claude up to Theta EdgeCloud through MCP this week. One prompt in the chat, routed through Theta's GPU network, image back in the conversation. Here's exactly how it works and what I did to get there.
- EdgeCloud
- MCP
- Claude
- Builder Log