+ Workshop 01
WS-01 / 12:00
AI x Blockchain Foundations
Building software that can work for us.
+ Frame
Software is changing.
For decades, software waited for users.
Users clicked. Users typed. Users made every decision.
Now, software can reason.
Soon, software will work on our behalf.
+ Software evolution
From compute to participation.
Compute
Execute instructions.
Reason
Understand, infer, and make decisions.
Act
Use tools and accomplish goals.
Participate
Own identity, exchange value, and coordinate.
+ The missing piece
LLMs gave software a reasoning engine.
Large Language Models made it practical for software to work with language, plans, code, and ambiguity.
- 01 Understand language
- 02 Generate ideas
- 03 Plan
- 04 Write code
- 05 Solve problems
+ AI evolution
The craft moved beyond prompts.
Prompt engineering
Tell the AI what to do.
Context engineering
Give the AI what it needs to know.
Agent engineering
Give the AI a goal to accomplish.
Harness engineering
Give the AI an environment where it can operate reliably.
+ Chatbots vs agents
A chatbot answers questions. An agent completes work.
Chatbot
- Responds in a conversation
- Needs a user for every next step
- Mostly produces text
Agent
- Uses tools
- Executes code
- Reads and writes files
- Calls APIs
- Works toward goals
+ System boundary
But acting is not enough.
If an agent can write software, analyze contracts, book travel, and manage infrastructure...
How does another system know who that agent is?
How does it authorize the agent?
How does it pay another service or own digital assets?
+ The intersection
Intelligence is not the whole story.
AI enables software to
- Reason
- Act
Blockchain enables software to
- Identify itself
- Exchange value
- Own resources
- Coordinate with other systems
Together, they enable software that can work for us.
+ Today's architecture
Today we build the first layer: the brain.
+ Today's workshop
By the end, your application can reason.
- 01 Clone the project template
- 02 Configure the environment
- 03 Get a Nebius Token Factory API key
- 04 Connect the backend
- 05 Make your first LLM request
+ The journey
Each workshop builds on the previous one.
Workshop 1 - Give our application a brain.
Workshop 2 - Turn it into an agent.
Workshop 3 - Give the agent a job.
Workshop 4 - Let the agent get paid.
+ Build mode
WS-01 / Build
Let's build.
Open the template, connect the backend, and make the first LLM request.