Applied AICryptoBusiness Dev
Karim Baba.
Self-taught, crypto-native builder now focused on building with AI agents. I ship full-stack products end to end, from Rust and Tauri desktop tools to on-chain trading systems, and run boots-on-the-ground business development across the San Francisco crypto scene. In the Ethereum ecosystem since 2021, I began in DeFi and have since pivoted into agentic development. I'm an ambitious quick learner, always looking for the opportunity to absorb knowledge.
Experience
Business Development & SF Liaison, Contributor · 1Claw
1Claw builds security and custody infrastructure for AI agents: key custody, an LLM firewall, and cross-chain transaction signing.
- Run boots-on-the-ground BD, education, and advocacy for 1Claw across the SF crypto and AI ecosystem, sourcing partnerships and relationships at conferences, meetups, and within founder and investor circles.
- Produce content and community programming to grow the protocol's awareness and credibility.
- Contribute to the product codebase, bridging BD insight with hands-on engineering.
Founder / Developer · Independent Builder
- Built and shipped a portfolio of working products from zero across AI infrastructure, crypto tooling, and creator tools, with a strong grasp of system architecture and protocol design.
- Currently building Warden, an orchestration and simplification layer that brings multiple AI coding agents into one coordinated workspace.
Selected Projects
Warden · multi-agent orchestration for AI coding
GitHubmacOS desktop app that brings your local AI coding agents into one live view: active sessions, process state, token spend, context window usage, and file activity.
Tauri · Rust · React / TS
Direct Terminal · crypto trading terminal and on-chain execution
Multi-exchange desktop terminal streaming live market data (Binance, Coinbase, Kraken) with a Rust trading-agent backend for Hyperliquid perpetuals: key custody, session management, and risk guardrails.
Tauri · Rust · React · Hyperliquid
DevSignal · autonomous developer-news publisher
first shipped product, 2026Personalized developer-news scraper that turns a feed into an autonomous AI publisher. Built end to end at an AWS hackathon.
Next.js · Supabase
Cliptic & Teleprompt · creator tooling
On-device vertical-video caption editor with a deterministic caption engine, plus a shipped iPhone teleprompter-recorder.
TypeScript · React · Vercel
Crypto
- In crypto since 2021, with deep, hands-on DeFi and Ethereum familiarity.
- Early to the L2 wave, among early users of Arbitrum, Optimism, and zkSync.
- Active trader since 2021, with significant personal volume across cycles.
- Regular at SF events: Solana Summer Series, Cursor Compile, Founders Inc, and more.
Strengths
- Sourcing and network. At ease in rooms with founders and high-status operators.
- Fast conceptual learner. New tech and architectures quickly, with strong pattern recognition.
- Builder's eye for diligence. I read a protocol's architecture and on-chain activity, not just its deck.
- Self-accountable. Every project above was self-initiated and self-driven.
Education & Learning
- Self-directed study in software engineering, smart-contract architecture, and DeFi mechanics.
- Acellus Academy, high school (Grade 10).