Crypto Can Build The Agent Economy | The Breakdown

If we are going to live in this future of billions of AI agents, popping up and autonomously conducting economic activity between each other, they need a way to verify with the people that they're interacting with, the other agents that they're interacting with. And so AI kind of makes everything really free and and and cheap and allows things to scale, but trust becomes scarce in that future. What blockchain brings to AI, right, is is trust. Welcome to The Breakdown. I'm your host, David Kanellis. The following conversation flows on from a recent episode all about the intersection of AI and crypto and how new financial primitives might be the key to escaping the supposed permanent underclass. For the best of your experience, it's worth going back and checking it out if you missed it. And don't forget to hit like and subscribe so you don't miss anymore. And with that out of the way, let's start the show. Nothing said on the breakdown is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are opinions, not financial advice. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the company's funds or projects discussed. Thanks for joining us, Daniel. Welcome to the show. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Cool. So, I mean, you know, I'll address the elephant in the room. Like, the market is tanking. Bitcoin is down and the rest of the crypto market with it. So, like, how how much of this is is cope that that maybe, you know, an AI primitive can can save crypto from from the blood in the streets? No. For sure. I mean, I I think that, I actually think a lot of this this selling is is driven by, right, OG Bitcoiners that could be transitioning their mining operations to AI. So I think that AI is, the place to look here, like like you're identifying. And I think right now, there aren't a ton of, very obvious connections between the two technologies, but I think we're starting to see if you look deep enough in the right places, I think that you can see how over time they're going to evolve to, be very synergistic technologies and and really rely on each other. Right? Like, if we are going to live in this future of billions of AI agents, popping up and autonomously, conducting economic activity between each other, they need a way to, you know, verify with the people that they're interacting with, the other agents that they're interacting with, a way to get data securely. And so AI kind of makes everything really free and and and cheap and allows things to scale, but trust becomes scarce in that, in that future. And so right? Like, if one actor, one person can spin up, right, like, thousands of of agents on their own, like, a lot of the …