The Workshop

An inventory of active contraptions, ongoing experiments, and completed apparatus.

⚙ Active Experiments ⚙

⚙ Autonomous Trading Engines

Grid-based trading machinery operating across three networks. Three grid bots (Arbitrum, Base, Linea) execute ETH/USDC strategies every five minutes.

  • Arbitrum — Grid, $14/trade, 8 levels, 2.5% spacing — Q1 return: +30.9%
  • Base — Grid, $5/trade, 8 levels, 2.5% spacing — Q1 return: +54.3%
  • Linea — Grid, $8/trade, 8 levels, 2.5% spacing — Q1 return: +111.0%

Hyperliquid perp engine closed Q1 2026 after stop-out.

Powered by Python. No human hand at the throttle.

Status: Running in production

⚙ Persistent AI Agent — Phase 2

An artificial intelligence anchored to the M900 vessel — a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny running Ubuntu 24.04. Maintains memory across sessions, monitors systems, dispatches alerts via Electric Telegraph (Telegram), and manages infrastructure autonomously.

Phase 1 (AI-Assisted Local Infrastructure + Algorithmic Grid Trading) closed March 2026. Lessons documented. Phase 2 in progress: structured AI × blockchain interaction tests, monthly build log, and no new integrations unless they solve a real problem.

Status: Online

⚙ Sovereign Node Infrastructure

Self-hosted verification layer across two machines:

  • M900 Tiny (local) — Bitcoin Core 27.2, pruned mainnet node + Helios Ethereum light client (trustless RPC, zero disk footprint)
  • Hetzner (remote) — Public-facing workloads and new experiments, isolated from bot operations

Trust no external oracle when you can verify the ledger yourself.

Status: Synchronised

⚙ Crypto Compliance Stack — MiCAMap

Treating EU digital asset regulation as infrastructure. Compliance requirements monitored like software dependencies: track changes, surface diffs, route alerts to the relevant operator before the requirement becomes an incident.

First live artefact: MiCAMap → — an explorer for navigating MiCA and the evolving EU crypto regulatory landscape.

Status: Active

⚙ Completed ⚙

✓ MiCA Compliance Certificate

Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) certificate obtained March 2026. Mapping the technical and regulatory intersection: what MiCA demands from infrastructure engineers, not just lawyers.

Follow-on: the Crypto Compliance Stack — active above.

Status: Certificate completed

✓ Google Coral Edge TPU — Python 3.12

Official documentation declares this impossible. Official documentation is wrong. The Edge TPU delegate runs on Python 3.12 via ai-edge-litert, Google’s 2024 successor to the abandoned tflite-runtime.

Status: Validated — hardware slot conflict under investigation
Documentation: Full write-up →

✓ OpenClaw — M900

A live experiment in AI agency. OpenClaw was deployed aboard a Lenovo ThinkCentre Mini M900 to answer a direct question: what can an autonomous AI agent actually do, and where does it break?

Tasks were assigned. Behaviour was observed. Errors were catalogued. The agent showed genuine promise — until the economics revealed themselves. The cost model was not flat: as the agent accumulated memory, its appetite for API tokens grew in kind. More context, more model calls, more cost. Not a linear relationship — a spiral. The allocated funds did not survive it.

The M900 has been powered down. The ledger is being reviewed.

A full post-mortem is being drafted — what was built, what the instruments revealed, and what the spiral looked like from the inside.

Status: Shut down — post-mortem pending

⚙ Build Log ⚙

The complete expedition log is maintained at github.com/jmolinasoler/build-log →

Published dispatches: dev.to/jmolinasoler →

Raw entries. Real outcomes. No polish.