Building @Botanika_sol and the data infrastructure behind AI.
Seoul, Korea
Joined March 2019
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AI is saving people hours every week, and most companies have no idea where those hours go…
A Microsoft Research study of 7,000+ workers across 66 companies found that AI assistants saved employees roughly 2 hours per week on email.
But they handled about the same number of threads and completed about the same number of documents.
The time saved didn't automatically translate into higher output.
For companies adopting AI, the key question is what employees actually do with those extra hours, and how productivity is measured beyond tool usage.
Are you seeing measurable productivity gains from AI in your team?
Sovereign AI just got a price tag and a postcode 🇨🇦
Canada is putting up to C$1.6B into cohere and part of the deal is that the compute has to stay in canada. sovereign AI is turning into a real procurement checkbox, so "where does my data live" is quietly becoming a sales question too 🇨🇦
November is stacked for anyone in AI, data and crypto, so here’s the calendar worth saving 🗓️
Nine events, four continents and one very tired passport. bookmark this so you don't miss the ones that matter to you, and tell me which one you're going to.
And if i missed an event that should be on here, drop it in the replies 👇
Happy halloween from the whole @botanika_sol team 🎃
May your backups actually restore and your nodes stay online all night.
A little Halloween horror story from Binance: $4.3 billion later… 💀🎃
Binance's initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak. We will share a detailed technical post-mortem once the investigation is complete and the facts are fully verified.
The estimated total impact sits at around $6.3B. We have worked with blockchain partners to freeze affected assets, with ~$3 billion frozen on-chain so far.
Binance will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and the company’s funds. User funds are safe. We will also publish an updated Proof of Reserves once the remediation is complete.
As an immediate precaution, Binance has:
- temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while security checks are completed;
- revoked the affected address authorisation;
- engaged law enforcement and blockchain intelligence partners to trace and recover funds.
Our teams are working around the clock to resolve this issue safely and thoroughly. We are working closely with our law enforcement partners to confirm the identity of these criminals and bring them to justice.
Please rely only on official Binance channels for updates. Please feel free to contact Binance Customer Support if you have any further questions.
binance.com/en/support/annou…
👻 Halloween is almost here, and AI infrastructure has its own horror stories
Here are five worth reading:
⚡ 10 years: the wait some UK data centers may face for a grid connection.
⚡ 11%: the rise in US residential electricity prices since January 2025.
💸 $3.5T: AI infrastructure spending Gartner says could face impairment by 2030.
🏚️ 80%: the share of neocloud providers Gartner expects to stop operating independently by 2030.
🔓 $177M: the AT&T data breach settlement now sending checks to affected customers.
Putting together the 2026 AI founder starter pack and i'm pretty sure i'm missing something important.
Drop the item you'd add in the replies and i'll make a part two with the best ones 👇
We’re taking the time to get the foundations right. Mainnet readiness comes first, and we’ll share the next steps once the final audits are complete. Thank you for your patience and continued support 🙏
Token Sale Update
The $BONSAI token sale will no longer take place on October 28.
As we prepare for Botanika’s mainnet launch, we are completing final audits to ensure the network is ready to support the next phase of The Omni Data Layer for AI.
The token launch will move forward alongside the network launch.
A new sale date will be announced once the audit is complete.
Replication: keep 3 full copies. 3 TB of disk for every 1 TB you store. simple, fast, expensive.
Erasure coding: split data into 6 pieces + 2 parity pieces. ~1.33 TB of disk per useful TB. survives the same 2 dead nodes.
The catch: rebuilding one lost piece means pulling from 6 other nodes. more CPU, more bandwidth, more latency.
P.S. Good systems use both. Replication for hot data, erasure coding for cold.
AI is going to need an enormous amount of physical infrastructure. Whoever owns that layer will shape what gets built on top of it, who gets access and at what price.
I don't think it has to end up concentrated by default. But distributing it is the harder route.
It's slower. I think it's worth it.
People often ask me why Botanika started with hardware instead of a protocol.
My honest answer: demand doesn't care how elegant your token model is. It cares whether the capacity exists, where it sits and what it costs to keep online.
The number in the image isn't a projection or a market-size slide. It's demand already waiting for the network, and it's the number our whole team plans around.
Big week ahead for us.
