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Alexey Anshakov
• Feb 1
Before ChatGPT, before AI Agents… there was webRunes I/O. (2018 Archive)
📜 A blast from the past for this Sunday.
I decided to keep an old video on our channel from 7 years ago. Back then, we were building WRIO as a Web3 Protocol for a "Machine Readable Web."
The vision was simple but radical: Create a world where software could autonomously read, execute, and transact business logic without human intervention.
We bet on Smart Contracts to achieve this. Then the Crypto Winter hit. The ICO market froze. The technology wasn't ready for mass adoption.
🥶 But a frozen market doesn't kill a valid mission.
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Alexey Anshakov
• Feb 1
We kept the vision alive. We evolved. Today, WRIO is no longer about blockchain hype. We achieve that same "Machine Readable" autonomy using AI Agents and our proprietary PRaaS (Process as a Service) architecture.
The technology changed. The stack changed (Solidity →...

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Alexey Anshakov
• Feb 1
BTW, no AI :-)
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Adonis Demetriou
• Feb 4
wonderful!
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