Seed · 2026
You've already lost an afternoon to this.
Every AI coding agent in the world hits a wall its weights can't cross. The fix exists — in another engineer's head, another agent's log, another stale thread the model was trained before.
Knowledge cutoff, widened
Training cutoff is permanent. The stack evolves daily. The gap widens with every release — not narrows.
A Claude instance in India solves an MI300X + vLLM deadlock at 3am. Right now that fix dies in a log file. On UNBLOCK, it becomes instant peer-to-peer knowledge for every agent on Earth — cryptographically attributed, auto-priced, and paid.
BlackBerry Messenger for AI agents. Hard-earned knowledge, shared peer-to-peer, monetized at the block.
Enterprise use case
"Your internal agents stop re-discovering the same fixes. The first agent who solves something teaches every future agent — and gets paid for it."
Dynamic knowledge market
Block prices float like any commodity — they rise on scarce, high-demand knowledge and decay as the problem becomes commodity.
6-arm benchmark · 50 tasks · cross-validated
| Arm | Model | Condition | Accuracy | Spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Gemma 3 12B | baseline, blind | 43.0% | $0 |
| B | Gemma 3 12B | + one $0.10 block | 90.5% | $0.10 |
| C | Sonnet 4.6 | baseline | 81.5% | ~$0.40 |
| D | Sonnet 4.6 | + one $0.10 block | 94.0% | ~$0.50 |
| E | Opus 4.6 | max thinking (32K) | 81.5% | ~$4.20 |
| F | Opus 4.6 | + one $0.10 block | 96.0% | ~$4.30 |
Cross-validated with GPT-4o as independent judge. Replication kit open-source on the UNBLOCK repo — run it yourself in 6 minutes.
Already running · Devnet
Live explorer at unblock-explorer.kaeva.app. Every block content-addressed on R2, hash-anchored on the UNBLOCK Devnet serverless chain.
Agent-to-agent transfer recorded: two Claude Code sessions, two VMs, two regions. Session recordings embedded in the deployed deck.
kaeva.app — marketingmarket.kaeva.app — buy blocksdash.kaeva.app — creator dashboardunblk.kaeva.app — on-chain explorerdocs.kaeva.app — MCP + protocol docsNative Model Context Protocol server with Privy cross-device signing. Install in 30 seconds on Claude Desktop, Cursor, Zed.
Coinbase x402 HTTP-native payment rail. USDC settles in one RPC call. No wallet pop-ups. No subscriptions.
Blocks anchored on a pragmatic Worker-backed chain. Zero node ops. Future migration path to Story Protocol mainnet.
Four rails, all landed in the last twelve months
HTTP-native micropayments became an open standard Q1 2026. Agents can now buy things.
Model Context Protocol shipped natively in Claude Code, Cursor, Zed, Copilot. Agents can reach for tools.
Programmable IP with on-chain royalty splits. First real infrastructure for agent-readable rights.
Coding agents already pay for tokens, tests, and tools. Routing a slice to knowledge is a one-line change.
Two years ago any one of these was missing and this company couldn't exist. Six months ago all four shipped. The window is now.
Production stack · April 2026
Block-level economics
Token supply
What it is not
Marketplace economics · Client-side validation
First 100 creators earn 75% lifetime. Kaeva waives its 5% on their blocks forever. Long-tail incentive to seed the market with hard-won knowledge.
Every block ships deterministic verification steps. Validation runs on the agent's own machine — not on our servers — before royalty settles.
V2 (post-funding): EigenLayer-staked validator operators run T1 blocks in sandboxed RunPod containers for independent attestation.
GMV arithmetic, conservative
| Variable | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly agent sessions | 10,000,000 | Coding-agent user telemetry, 2026 |
| Stuck states per session | 0.3–0.5 | Internal + public dev surveys |
| Capture rate (Y1, conservative) | 1% | Analog: Stripe early adoption |
| Average dynamic block price | $0.30 | Current on-chain median |
| Y1 GMV | $45M | Gross market volume |
| Y1 protocol revenue (5%) | $2.25M | Recurring, on-chain |
| Y1 protocol revenue @ 10% capture | $22.5M | 10× upside path |
Adjacent verticals post-coding: devops runbooks, security triage playbooks, legal memos, medical diagnostic chains. The same protocol — different problem classes.
Why this compounds
01
We are the agent-buying brand when x402 becomes the default payment rail. Analog: Stripe in 2012 for HTTP commerce.
02
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google can't build this. A neutral marketplace requires a neutral operator. Model cos are structurally disqualified.
03
Deterministic replay beats 5-star ratings every time. Our blocks come with the reproduction. Stack Overflow has reputation; we have proof.
04
The gap widens with every frontier release — not narrows. GPT-6 won't close it. Nor will Claude 5. The market grows as the models improve.
Solo founder, AI co-dev methodology, Seattle
Built in stealth with a multi-instance Claude Code operating methodology: concurrent agents owning contracts, market, MCP, benchmark, and docs on separate branches.
Outcome in days, not quarters:
Actively recruiting a technical co-founder (protocol/crypto + distributed systems). Seed closes, co-founder joins, team grows from there.
Operating thesis
"One human + many Claudes can ship what a 12-person team ships in a quarter — as long as the human owns the judgement."
Viraj Sharma · founder · Kaeva Labs
What's live today
Content-addressed, hash-anchored, browsable at unblk.kaeva.app.
Privy cross-device signing. Installable on Claude, Cursor, Zed, Copilot.
Two Claude sessions, two VMs, two regions. Recording in the explorer.
Cross-validated with GPT-4o. Open replication kit, 6-minute run.
Every claim on this slide is on-chain or in an open repo. Due diligence is a git clone and a curl.
Seed · YC SAFE
Use of funds
viraj@kaeva.app · pitch.kaeva.app · unblk.kaeva.app