# Howard Peng

> Protocol Engineer · Mechanism Designer. Howard Peng — protocol engineer & mechanism designer. Mechanism design, distributed systems, and market microstructure, toward multi-agent cooperation and AI alignment.

Technical Director at a $100M Telegram-ecosystem fund — technical due diligence and portfolio support across stablecoin integrations and opcode-cost optimization. I work at the intersection of mechanism design, distributed systems, and market microstructure, building toward multi-agent cooperation and AI alignment.

## Pages
- [Home](https://howard-peng.xyz/): bio and writing index
- [About](https://howard-peng.xyz/about): full bio and links
- [Projects](https://howard-peng.xyz/projects): things built

## Writing
- [價值 vs 注意力: X.com 上的 7 倍倒掛](https://howard-peng.xyz/2026/attention-vs-value.md): 同樣 10 天，一個 AI 影片 demo 拿到 10.7M 觸及，一條背後是每月 $10b+ 真實資金的預測市場貼文只有 1.6M。我把範圍拉大到 1,100+ 貼文去看這個落差——X 上的注意力，跟經濟價值是脫鉤的。 (2026-06-26)
- [Build websites that agents can read](https://howard-peng.xyz/2026/agent-readable-websites.md): Why I publish llms.txt, raw Markdown, and JSON-LD alongside every page — and how it changes who your site is for. (2026-06-25)

## Projects
- MakeReel: Consumer AI video studio. Pick a template or write a prompt, pay per clip from your wallet, get a 5-second video — no account, no subscription. Powered by Seedance, settled in USDC on Base. (https://makereel.xyz)
- x402-video: Pay-per-call AI video generation over the x402 protocol — HTTP 402 → pay USDC on Base → generate. The developer- and agent-facing gateway behind MakeReel. (https://x402video.com)
- x-watchlist: A pipeline that turns a list of X handles into a behavior map — surface-area tiers, activity personas, and follower/bio distributions, tracked over time. Closed source; live cohort dashboard. (https://x-watchlist-production.up.railway.app/#overview)
- talkBuffett: Value-investing research platform — Buffett-grade analysis at 1/250,000th the cost. (https://talkbuffett-production.up.railway.app)
- OpenMod.ai: macOS app for multi-model AI collaboration — several models reasoning side by side. (https://openmod.ai)
- AlphaLine: US-first AI stock research — an agent-readable data layer for equities.
- x-signal-desk: X monitoring + native-English writing corpus, designed for signal over volume.
- awesome-ai-api-proxy: A weekly price observatory for AI API proxies and model tiers. (https://github.com/howardpen9/awesome-ai-api-proxy)

## Elsewhere
- X: https://x.com/0xhoward_peng
- GitHub: https://github.com/howardpen9
- Telegram: https://t.me/telepeng
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haoen-peng

## Full text
- [llms-full.txt](https://howard-peng.xyz/llms-full.txt): every post inlined as Markdown