# Sawyer Cutler

> Sawyer Cutler — VP Developer Success at SKALE. Writing about AI agents, blockchain infrastructure, and the machine economy.

## Docs

- [My Projects](/my-projects): A collection of open source projects spanning AI agents, blockchain, payments, privacy, and developer infrastructure.
- [Agentic Economy Weekly Thoughts #1](/blog/agentic-economy-weekly-thoughts-no-1): This week I'm watching: marketplace experimentation around offchain tasks, the emerging "wallet wars" for agentic capital, discovery solutions that still feel undifferentiated, and identity standards struggling with spam and legitimacy. Plus a look at what actually makes sense to build right now.
- [AI for Dummies (who don't use AI)](/blog/ai-for-dummies-who-dont-use-ai): This article explores three practical ways developers who don't use AI-first workflows can leverage artificial intelligence to enhance their productivity. From generating complex CURL requests through terminal AI tools, to implementing obscure native APIs, and creating comprehensive inline documentation for smart contracts, these targeted applications demonstrate how selective AI integration can streamline development tasks without requiring a complete overhaul of traditional coding approaches.
- [Authoritative Actions](/blog/authoritative-actions): This article explores how authoritative servers can enhance Web3 applications by preventing bot abuse and managing game state while preserving decentralization benefits through strategic implementation. By leveraging OpenZeppelin's AccessControl for role-based permissions, developers can create secure authority layers that dynamically grant temporary access rights for on-chain actions, with this approach proving most effective on zero-gas-fee blockchains like SKALE that offer instant finality without the operational challenges posed by variable transaction costs and slow confirmation times.
- [Building CI/CD with Bun Workspaces, Changesets, Turborepo, and npm Provenance](/blog/building-a-cicd-pipeline-with-bun-workspaces-changesets-turborepo-and-npm-provenance): Getting this pipeline right took more effort than expected.
- [Confidential MPP on SKALE: Private Payments for AI Agents](/blog/confidential-mpp-on-skale): The machine economy needs privacy. With Confidential MPP on SKALE, agents pay and get paid without exposing amounts or balances. Financial details stay between the parties, not on the chain.
- [What Conditional Transactions (CTXs) Mean for AI Agents](/blog/ctxs-what-conditional-transactions-mean-for-ai-agents): SKALE Network's Blockchain Integrated Threshold Encryption (BITE) Protocol introduced **Encrypted Transactions** which introduced 100% private data in transit for blockchain transactions from wallet to execution.
- [Docs are for Agents](/blog/docs-are-for-agents): Explore who documentation is actually built for in the agentic era, some critical items of AI-first documentation, and a real world exploration of updating the SKALE Network documentation to Mintlify -- the intelligence documentation platform.
- [Enhancing Unity Game Development](/blog/enhancing-unity-game-development): This comprehensive overview showcases Eidolon's modular Unity SDK ecosystem designed to accelerate game development through specialized, lightweight packages that handle everything from OS device data access and physics calculations to Web3 blockchain integration and networking. Each SDK integrates seamlessly with zero conflicts, providing developers with powerful tools for randomization, timer management, controller input handling, and WalletConnect support while enabling faster development cycles for both traditional Web2 and emerging Web3 gaming experiences.
- [Memory for the Agentic Economy](/blog/memory-for-the-agentic-economy): AI systems have moved past the era of a single LLM doing everything and now represent a complex ecosystem of context, memory, prompting, tools, and skills. Multi-agent systems are increasingly common in production, but they are more often found inside private systems. Why? Sharing information between unknown agents is a major challenge. Protocols like Google's Agent-2-Agent (A2A) use structured JSON messages to communicate, but they do not solve the problem of variable memory across open systems and swarms as tasks grow more complex.
- [PII Redaction at the Edge: An Open-Source Server for AI Agents](/blog/pii-redaction-at-the-boundary): Your AI agent just received a user message:
- [Wake Me Up When the Price Hits $5,000](/blog/programmable-privacy-conditional-transactions): Encrypted transactions protect data in transit. Conditional Transactions (CTXs) allow encrypted data to be executed when a condition is met.
- [Solving the Barista Test: A Private Money Solution](/blog/programmable-privacy-confidential-tokens): The barista test: when you buy coffee, the barista doesn't see your bank balance. Confidential tokens bring this privacy to blockchain — private balances, encrypted amounts, and transfers that reveal nothing to observers.
- [Encrypting Intent: The Agent Infrastructure Gap](/blog/programmable-privacy-encrypted-transactions): MEV bots consume over **50% of gas** on leading L2s while paying less than 10% of fees. [\[1\]](#sources) But the infrastructure cost is only half the story — the real damage is to users. Every transaction you submit broadcasts your intent in plaintext to the [mempool](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/transactions/#the-transaction-pool): amounts, destinations, and strategies visible to every searcher, every validator, every [MEV](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/mev/) bot. Encrypted transactions change this entirely.
- [Storing Private Data Onchain](/blog/programmable-privacy-re-encryption): You encrypted data for one party. Now you need to share it with another — without revealing it to the world. Re-encryption makes this possible onchain.
- [I Built Poker That Actually Works Onchain](/blog/programmable-privacy-rebuilding-poker): Poker failed onchain because cards were visible. Every attempt — state channels, commit-reveal schemes, TEEs — compromised on speed, trust, or decentralization. Threshold encryption fixes this.
- [Proof-of-Encryption in the Cloud](/blog/proof-of-encryption-in-the-cloud): This article explores the revolutionary BITE Protocol that implements Proof of Encryption using threshold cryptography and multi-party signatures to enable fully encrypted blockchain transactions resistant to MEV attacks. Unlike traditional trusted execution environments, BITE embeds encryption directly into consensus through provable mathematics, requiring zero Solidity changes while offering cloud API accessibility for encrypted transactions across any programming language, with FAIR L1 blockchain pioneering the implementation before broader SKALE Chain adoption.
- [Scaling Authority on the EVM](/blog/scaling-authority-on-the-evm): This technical guide addresses the critical scaling challenges faced by authoritative servers in blockchain applications due to the EVM's sequential nonce requirement. By implementing a Signing Pool architecture using HD wallet-derived child signers, developers can overcome nonce collision issues and scale from handling just a few concurrent requests to hundreds per second, complete with automatic gas balance management and dynamic signer selection for high-throughput applications on zero-gas-fee networks like SKALE.
- [SKALE Governance Update - July 7, 2025](/blog/skale-governance-update-july-7-2025): This governance update examines SKALE Network's remarkable achievement of surpassing 1 billion cumulative transactions while maintaining zero gas fees and instant finality. The analysis covers the SKALE DAO's hybrid governance model combining onchain economic voting with offchain technical consensus, and explores how the upcoming FAIR L1 blockchain addresses critical ecosystem challenges by enabling permissionless DeFi deployment and reducing operational costs through a synergistic gas-fee architecture that captures value within the SKALE ecosystem.
- [SKALE's Secret Sauce for Game Developers](/blog/supercharge-your-game): This comprehensive guide explores how SKALE Network revolutionizes game development by providing blockchain infrastructure that replaces traditional servers, databases, and storage systems with zero-gas, high-performance alternatives. Supporting 500-13,000 transactions per second with instant finality and native random number generation, SKALE enables developers to build asset-based games, real-time multiplayer experiences, leaderboards, and autonomous worlds while eliminating the cost barriers that make blockchain impractical for gaming on other networks.
- [The Gasless Design Behind x402](/blog/the-gasless-flow-behind-x402): This article explores the gasless design behind x402, a protocol for internet-native payments that enables seamless transactions across any web service without the need for API keys or accounts.
- [The Hidden Cost of Agentic Commerce](/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-agentic-commerce): As the agentic economy emerges and AI agents begin transacting at scale, the infrastructure we choose for these economic interactions will determine whether machine-to-machine commerce thrives or stalls. While the conversation often centers on payment protocols like [x402](/blog/the-role-of-pay-per-tool-in-an-agentic-world.mdx), there's a more fundamental question that gets less attention: **What is the actual cost of enabling billions of agentic transactions?**
- [The Power of Random](/blog/the-power-of-random): This article explores SKALE Network's native random number generation system that uses threshold signatures from consensus nodes to create provably random numbers at zero gas cost. Unlike external oracles like Chainlink VRF, SKALE's RNG is free, synchronous, and built directly into the blockchain, enabling developers to generate unique NFT attributes and implement innovative game mechanics like Shape Storm's single-ownership roguelike where players can only hold one randomly-generated shape at a time.
- [The Rise of the Machine Economy](/blog/the-rise-of-the-machine-economy): This article examines how blockchain infrastructure, particularly SKALE Network's zero-gas, high-performance platform, will enable the emergence of a machine-driven economy powered by autonomous AI agents. By combining technologies like x402 for programmable payments, small language models for efficient AI processing, and decentralized identifiers for verifiable interactions, we can create seamless workflows where machines transact, collaborate, and execute economic activities without human intervention.
- [The Role of Pay-Per-Tool in an Agentic World](/blog/the-role-of-pay-per-tool-in-an-agentic-world): The role of agents and AI tooling is expanding very quickly. With
new releases, tools, models, and innovations coming out every day, it's important to understand the role of tools in agentic systems and why the consumption model may be in need of an economic change. This blog introduces the concept of a tool, walks through an example of a tool, and explores why pay-per-tool is the next logical step.
- [Vercel AI TypeScript SDK: Privacy Middleware](/blog/vercel-ai-typescript-sdk-privacy-middleware): Your AI application uses the Vercel AI SDK. It's clean — `generateText`, `streamText`, a few lines of code, done. But every user message flows through your system intact:
- [x402 via EIP-3009 Forwarding](/blog/x402-via-eip3009-forwarding): x402 is Coinbase's open protocol for internet-native payments that enables seamless blockchain transactions using ERC-3009 USDC. This article explores how to extend x402 to any blockchain through EIP-3009 forwarding contracts, with a focus on SKALE Network's zero-gas infrastructure that enables instant, cost-free transactions across any token on EVM-compatible chains.