Ali Baig builds systems that move and account for money: trading-venue data platforms, payment rails for AI agents, on-chain fundraising and the backends behind them.https://iamalibaig.com/https://iamalibaig.com/writing/check-the-state-not-the-clock/https://iamalibaig.com/writing/check-the-state-not-the-clock/“Wait five minutes, then assume it arrived” is one of the most common bugs I see. It can't tell broken from idle.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iamalibaig.com/writing/x402-in-practice/https://iamalibaig.com/writing/x402-in-practice/The protocol is simple. The work is in deciding what to believe, and moving money afterwards without ever doing it twice.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://iamalibaig.com/writing/signal-in-the-text/https://iamalibaig.com/writing/signal-in-the-text/I found psychiatric phenotypes in brain-imaging case reports. Then I tried to break the result, and it broke.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT