TxDesk

TxDesk

Personal AI support for Crypto

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Building TxDesk, an AI you can ask anything about your crypto. Paste a transaction, connect a wallet, ask why something failed, and get a plain-English answer instead of squinting at a block explorer. Solo founder, building in public.

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What is AI governance? Explain it like I'm building my first AI agent.

When people hear "AI governance," they often imagine policies, audits, and a lot of paperwork.

The more time I spend around AI agents, the less I think that's the right way to explain it.

If I were building my first AI agent today, I'd probably think about governance as a set of guardrails around the agent. What is it allowed to do? What data can it access? Who can approve its actions? If something changes, can I see what happened? And if something goes wrong, do I know who was responsible for the final decision?

Those questions sound simple, but they start to matter pretty quickly once an AI agent moves beyond a demo and becomes part of a real workflow. An agent might read documents, make recommendations, trigger actions, or interact with customers. At that point, understanding control, ownership, and visibility becomes just as important as the model itself.

What does your team actually produce as evidence when AI code goes to production?

Something I keep coming back to: if an auditor asked your team to prove that the AI-generated code in your last release passed your risk policy what would you actually hand them?

Most teams I talk to would produce a PR link, maybe a Copilot usage dashboard, and a verbal description of their review process. No record of which model generated which function, no risk score at insertion time, no machine-verifiable proof that a human reviewed the AI context rather than just the diff.

We just shipped an indemnity certificate system in LineageLens. You define a policy (max risk score, allowed models, require human review, license clean), call an endpoint for a specific PR or release, and the system evaluates every provenance record tagged to that scope against your rules. Either it issues a signed Ed25519 certificate verifiable by any third party without workspace credentials or it returns a structured list of exactly what failed and why.

The certificate anchors to the provenance hash chain at the moment of issuance, so it's not just "we said it was reviewed." It's a cryptographic statement tied to the capture records that existed at the time.

Nika

4d ago

What was the most surprising finding after you launched on Product Hunt?

People spend a lot of time preparing for a product launch, but after every campaign, they usually look back and think, "We could have done this better."

Not because they didn't prepare, but because there were things they simply didn't know beforehand.

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