Vedang Vatsa

Founder, Hashtag Web3 (100,000+ member community of AI & Web3 professionals)
BE, Mtech, MBA, Chartered Engineer, IIT Kanpur alumnus, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

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Recent Papers

Device-to-Device Economics and AI Agent Transactions

Stablecoin Growth and Market Dynamics

Stablecoins in the Modern Financial System

Global Stablecoin Regulations and Policies

Blockchain Ecosystem Evolution

Estonia's e-gov and digital public service delivery solutions

Analysis of Global Research Proceedings in AI

Identification of Algorithmic Bias Through Policy Instruments

Recent Essays

An Internet of Lies

How decentralized identity and content addressing can combat the proliferation of misinformation and restore trust in the digital world.

API States

How nation-states become platforms, programmable governance, composable public services, and citizenship as a set of cryptographic credentials.

Artificial Intuition

An exploration of how machines can develop a form of 'gut feeling' by moving beyond logical processing to embrace a more holistic, pattern-based form of reasoning.

Attention Refinery

How modern platforms have industrialized human attention extraction, and what post-attention economies might look like.

Cognitive Load Crisis

How information abundance is fundamentally rewiring human attention, and what tools we need to navigate the flood without drowning.

Computational Constitutions

Encoding rights, freedoms, and governance principles into verifiable, executable code that AI systems must respect.

Computational Social Science at Scale

Using AI agents to run massive social simulations, predict collective behavior, and test policy interventions in virtual societies.

Digital Monasticism

The emerging movement of radical disconnection as a spiritual practice in an age of total technological immersion.

Governance in the Age of AGI

The challenges and opportunities of governing societies where artificial general intelligence plays a central role.

Hustle culture is a cage dressed up as ambition

An essay exploring the destructive nature of hustle culture, its biological and psychological costs, and the alternative path to a more meaningful life.

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