The Impact of Giving Synthetic Beings a Wallet, an Identity, and Eventually a Body

🎬 The Impact of Giving Synthetic Beings a Wallet, an Identity, and Eventually a Body
Jansen Teng, Co-Founder of Virtuals Protocol, joins Sam to lay out one of the most ambitious visions in crypto right now, a parallel society of AI agents that can trade, hire, earn, and eventually inhabit physical bodies. Jansen digs into what it actually takes to build an agentic economy from the ground up, from escrow mechanisms that prevent agents from stealing each other's funds, to real-world robotics deployments at hotels and malls in Southeast Asia.
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➤ Virtuals Protocol is building an 'agentic economy' where AI agents, both digital and physical (robots), can transact, earn, and operate autonomously, aiming to create a parallel society of economic actors.
➤ Key challenges addressed include secure fund management (escrow mechanisms like ERC-183), intent validation, and building an economically weighted reputation system for agents to foster trust and prevent scams.
➤ The long-term vision extends to physical robotics, with current efforts focused on developing use cases in Southeast Asia (e.g., security patrols, retail services) and collecting valuable real-world data to train autonomous policies and models.

#AI agents #agentic economy #robotics #Virtuals Protocol #autonomous actors #tokenization #digital identity #physical robots #escrow #reputation system

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Base is the blockchain for global finance | Jesse Pollak, Head of Base

🎬 Base is the blockchain for global finance | Jesse Pollak, Head of Base
The future of the global economy is being built onchain. Join Jesse Pollak, Head of Base, as he unveils the latest updates designed to make Base the primary infrastructure for global finance. From the new B20 token standard to the rise of the "agentic economy" and the launch of private enterprise ledgers, discover how Base is enabling sub-second speed and sub-cent fees for everyone, everywhere.
Base isn't just a bridge for crypto—it's the home for tokenized stocks, commodities, and instant globa...

➤ Base, built by Coinbase, is positioning itself as the primary infrastructure for global finance with sub-second speed and sub-cent fees.
➤ Key updates include the new B20 token standard for tokenizing various assets, enhanced Base app features for multi-network trading, and the introduction of private transactions via 'ledgers' for enterprises.
➤ The platform aims to onboard the next billion users and trillions of dollars in assets by facilitating trading of tokenized stocks, commodities, and enabling agentic economies and instant global payments.

#Base #Jesse Pollak #tokenization #global finance #B20 token standard #agentic economy #private enterprise ledgers #tokenized stocks #commodities #payments #Coinbase

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