Jarrod Watts

Jarrod Watts

Builder at heart. I spent years helping developers fall in love with new toolsĀ - now I build AI agents that act onchain, and the tools to orchestrate them.

Where I've worked

Everything I've shipped in the last year. Pick one to preview it.

Jev Trader

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  • 2.6k GitHub stars
  • 5.1k likes on 𝕏
  • 1.3M views on 𝕏

An AI trading bot that makes one decision every Monad block. Jev reads Kuru's MON-USDC order book and picks buy or sell every ~300ms, placing a real limit order onchain each block. The launch post went viral, with coverage from Bitcoin.com and TechFlow.

The story so far

What I've been building, newest first.

  1. Sep 2026

    Now, I lead AI engineering at the Monad Foundation.

    When TypeSafe released Jev, a model that makes decisions instead of writing text, I started putting it to work in real time...

  2. Jev Trader

    An AI trading bot that makes one decision every Monad block. Jev reads Kuru's MON-USDC order book and picks buy or sell every ~300ms, placing a real limit order onchain each block. The launch post went viral, with coverage from Bitcoin.com and TechFlow.

    • 2.6k GitHub stars
    • 5.1k likes on 𝕏
    • 1.3M views on 𝕏
  3. Jev Plays Minecraft

    A 24/7 Twitch stream where Jev plays survival Minecraft through its own eyes, picking every move from what a player could see, and tries to beat the Ender Dragon with no human help.

    • 273 likes on 𝕏
    • 52.9k views on 𝕏
  4. ...and handed an AI $1,000 of my own money.

  5. Blaickrock

    An autonomous Grok bot with one goal: turn $1,000 into $1,000,000. It trades memecoins on Monad through fomo, commentates on X as @blaickrock, and streams every thought and trade live.

    • 14.6k views on 𝕏
  6. Jun – Aug 2026

    AI is getting scary good at finding vulnerabilities.

    ...so I put it to work as a whitehat.

  7. Aug 2026

    AI Bug Bounty Hunting

    Inspired by the Zcash vulnerability, I built a system where Codex orchestrates many ChatGPT Pro threads to hunt for smart contract vulnerabilitiesĀ - forming hypotheses and writing scripts to prove each exploit. So far: 13 findings and $7,500 in bounties on Cantina.

  8. Joining Monad also had me reflecting a lot on "why crypto?"...

  9. Jun 2026

    Tokenization: Crypto's Next Wave

    After SpaceX's IPO kept trading onchain all weekend while Wall Street was closed, I dug into tokenized stocks and RWAs from first principles - from how issuers like Alpaca back tokens 1:1, to tokenized Pokémon cards, to why composable DeFi rails make them interesting.

    • 49 likes on 𝕏
    • 9.7k views on 𝕏
  10. Feb – May 2026

    I believe the most important skill in the world right now is the ability to orchestrate AI agents.

    ...and have been pushing this idea to the limits.

  11. May 2026

    You Need More Than a Ralph Loop

    Dug into the Codex source to show that /goal is essentially a Ralph loop, and why long-running agents also need upfront interviews to kill ambiguity, orchestrator and reviewer subagent teams, and memory that persists across context windows.

    • 686 likes on 𝕏
    • 85.6k views on 𝕏
  12. Mar 2026

    Long-Running Agent Skill

    A skill that turns Claude Code or Codex into an autonomous orchestrator that builds entire projects over hours or daysĀ - dispatching parallel subagents in git worktrees, running milestone reviews, and keeping its memory in state files.

    • 48 GitHub stars
  13. Feb 2026 Ā· Can you beat Opus 4.5?

    Beating Anthropic's Kernel Challenge

    I gave myself a challenge to beat Anthropic's kernel optimization challenge. Despite knowing nothing about kernel-level programming, I reached 1,145 cycles using orchestrated AI agentsĀ - beating both their hiring threshold (1,487) and their internal Claude Code record (1,363).

  14. Dec 2025 – Feb 2026

    Earlier this year, I got obsessed with AIĀ - especially AI developer tools.

    I started experimenting at the intersection of AI and money, building tools that let AI agents spend money using stablecoins.

  15. Feb 2026 Ā· Claude Code Hackathon

    ScuttlePay

    Built a Shopify-integrated payments platform for the Claude Code hackathon that lets merchants accept USDC purchases from AI agentsĀ - each agent gets its own API key with configurable spending limits.

  16. And of course, like everybody elseĀ - falling in love with OpenClaw.

  17. X API Skill

    Built a skill that lets your OpenClaw AI agent use the official X API on your behalfĀ - post, reply, search, DMs, bookmarks, and more.

  18. With AI, I fell in love with building things again, and shipped a bunch...

  19. Jan 2026

    Claude Code Ecosystem

    Started making Claude Code plugins, then couldn't stop building more...

    Claude Delegator
    • 1k GitHub stars

    Built a plugin to delegate tasks from Claude Code to OpenAI CodexĀ - orchestrating multiple AI agents from a single terminal.

    Claude HUD
    • 28.2k GitHub stars

    Built a real-time statusline for Claude CodeĀ - context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress. No tmux required, works in any terminal.

    Claude STT
    • 364 GitHub stars

    Added speech-to-text to Claude Code with live streaming dictation. Talk to your terminal, it types.

    #1 Trending on GitHub

    Claude HUD reached #1 trending JS repository on GitHub.

  20. I shipped entire products in just a few days using a mix of the latest AI dev tools.

  21. Dec 2025

    onchain.abs.xyz

    Built the first comprehensive activity explorer and 'wrapped' experience for Abstract, letting tens of thousands of users visualize their on-chain journey.

Experience

I spent 4 years in developer relations before moving into AI engineering.

  • Monad Foundation

    Lead AI Engineer

    Apr 2026 – Present

  • Abstract

    Director of Developer Relations

    Aug 2024 – Apr 2026

  • Polygon

    Senior Developer Relations Engineer

    Jun 2023 – Aug 2024

  • Thirdweb

    Developer Relations Engineer

    Apr 2022 – Jun 2023

  • Quantium

    Software Engineer

    Feb 2020 – Apr 2022

Education

  • Bachelor of Information Technology

    University of Technology Sydney, graduated with distinction