@proofoftalk@provenauthority@billions_ntwk Big tech is ‘terrified’ of AI agents wiping out ad revenue because agents don’t read ads. They’ll be using Instinct: guided commerce, routing agents to suggested tools and skills, delivered via their micropayment receipts.
The only way I see agent credit working in practice is secured by receivables: credit is extended to economically relevant agents w/ verifiable, underwritable on-chain cash flows. If agent econ. takes off much as some expect, then there should be plenty of those. But no amount of reputation/identity will fully solve the walkaway problem; it requires some form of earnest money. Fully collateralized credit would interest no one, but claims against profitable agents’ receivables would be +TVM.
Wow, Sam A. must have seen Instinct by @dexteraisol! 🫢
Well, maybe not, since ChatGPT is rolling out traditional ads for human consumption. Instinct, on the other hand, is explicitly designed for agents with money.
Sponsored content for humans (ads) = unwanted nuisance that preys upon human impulsivity to increase traffic/revenue.
Advertisers win. Consumers become the product.
Sponsored content for agents (Instinct) = recommendation engine that guides agents toward accomplishing in-progress tasks, but faster, cheaper, and unobtrusively.
Advertisers win. Users and their agents win, too.
🚨Breaking OpenAI is now rolling out conversion-optimized ads in ChatGPT
Sam Altman in 2024: ads in AI are "uniquely unsettling," a last resort
Sam Altman in 2026: anyway, here's your sponsored answer, now optimized to make you buy
The bills came due
@yugacohler The big unlock that popularizes x402 & agentic commerce among normies is just around the corner.
CLI agents are neat, but portable agent smart wallets/vaults with configurable controls will open the floodgates and change the internet economy forever.
Passkeys are great. When the auth program lives at the protocol layer, as it does with Tempo’s keychain precompile, caps scope to what’s enforced on-chain; TIP-20s, in this case.
And when it lives at the application layer (i.e., Solana program + secp256r1 precompile), caps can scope to arbitrary instructions. I’m drafting the passkey extension to the MPP session spec (draft-solana-session-passkey-00) along these lines.
I disagree with this Anthropic engineer. If I had Mythos like him, I’d probably agree. But Opus’ best long-work comes from constantly monitoring, pressing, asking, and interrupting like a hawk at every perceived divergence.
Anthropic engineer:
"You're not supposed to watch Claude Code work. You're supposed to wake up and review what it shipped."
In 22 minutes she builds the entire workflow live on camera.
Most people close their terminal and everything stops.
This setup keeps shipping while you sleep.
Watch the video, then save the exact setup below👇
They will start showing in agent searches and on https://t.co/sZwDeDxCMa automatically soon, but since the merchant is using an inferior facilitator, they are missing out on a ton of the latest x402 features, can’t accept payments from all Solana smart wallets, and are probably being forced to pay per settlement for the privilege (?) of dealing with those glaring deficiencies. I recommend upgrading!
It’s true — Grok agents just gained money, identity, and access to thousands of premium services.
The frontier of truly open agentic commerce is being pushed further by solana:EfPoo4wWgxKVToit7yX5VtXXBrhao4G8L7vrbKy6pump every single day. We’re just warming up.
Wow! 🤯 I just gave Grok an agentic wallet, which is possible exclusively w/ @dexteraisol…
Now my Grok is searching the entire agentic universe of @x402, purchasing new advanced capabilities for his arsenal, and even offering to handle my Father’s Day shopping on Amazon for me.
Great job by the Heat West aka @spurs in Game 7! Victor Wembanyama just came into Oklahoma City, balled up SGA and the rest of the cheap, gimmicky Thunder, and tossed them into the garbage can. What a spectacle!