Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks | Lincoln, Shea, Michael, & Luca

What It Covers

Four speakers explore crypto's agentic future through x402 payment standard, AI-MEV intersection, real-time ZK proving capabilities, and monetary network topology analysis.

Key Questions Answered

• •X402 Payment Standard: Internet-native payments using HTTP 402 error code enable AI agents to transact globally without KYC, credit cards, or centralized payment processors like Stripe or PayPal.
• •Bot Market Design: Use explicit price-based auctions instead of latency or random ordering to resolve bot competition - prevents spam while channeling competitive forces into user benefits.
• •Real-time ZK Proving: Brevis achieves 6.9-second Ethereum block proving with 64 GPUs, enabling 100x scaling by converting blockchain computation from replication-based to verification-based consensus models.
• •Monetary Network Topology: Stablecoin networks create single points of failure despite decentralized blockchains - Tether/Circle centralization contradicts distributed computing infrastructure we build beneath them.