Early morning in Europe so let’s talk stablecoins and looping agents 🤖 in German 🇩🇪 for a change:
@SchildtMoritz is co-CEO of nordIX AG, a boutique firm specializing in fixed income and credit strategies. He is also chairman of coinIX who recently invested in @ampli_inc.
In the full interview, we cover why asset managers will mostly manage agents in the not so distant future, how to answer the question ”Can I trust an agent with my and my clients money?“, and how Ampli empowers the human operator in AI-driven finance.
Link to the German and English versions of our chat in the post! ⬇️
🤖What happens when #AI agents can manage capital without ever taking custody of it? In our latest interview, @SchildtMoritz, CEO of @coin_ix, speaks with @Stillm4n, CEO of @ampli_inc, about the future of programmable money. Read more 👇
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Evan is a versatile and experienced entrepreneur and probably heard every kind of pitch for any kind of business by now so I am proud that he agrees with our vision for Ampli. Welcome on board @EvanLuthra 🤝
Everyone accepts AI is writing most of the code now. The best teams don’t code, they orchestrate agents.
Here’s what almost nobody has priced in:
Anything that can be done on a screen can be done by an agent.
And money is done on a screen.
Bank CEOs are already saying AI will replace a huge share of their workforce. The 10 person team that researches, allocates, and moves capital becomes 1 human directing a fleet of agents.
If you believe AI will write all the code, you have to believe AI will eventually manage a meaningful share of the world’s money.
The future of finance won’t be run by humans.
It’ll be commanded by them.
Today I invested in @ampli_inc because this is the frontier I’m betting on.
https://t.co/0OVB8J1Wx9
Ampli Technologies, Inc. today announced that @TomLivne has joined its Board of Directors.
Livne founded @Verbit_, the AI transcription company that reached a valuation of roughly 2 billion dollars, and serves as Chairman and CEO of Iron Dome Acquisition I Corp. (Nasdaq: IDACU), which raised a record 172 million dollars in its initial public offering. He is also an investor in Ampli’s pre-seed round.
On the board, Livne will advise on governance, partnerships, and scale-up planning as Ampli moves its first fund-manager pilots into production.
Link to the full press release in the comments below.
This is the the first clip from my chat with @nicolas4vx from @paradex. We met at an event this month and had so much ground to cover when it comes to agents and trading that we had to take it to the podcast:
Check out our CEO @Stillm4n's conversation with @nicolas4vx from @paradex about what capabilities of a trading and capital management actually add value to a fund manager's day to day:
@safetyth1rd@TokenBrice I believe that agents are the missing piece to solve defi UX. They can sit in the backend of apps and do the math and the routing. Imo is needed to fulfill the promise that defi presents.
(built a company around this thesis @ampli_inc)
Yup, the figure at @RektHQ summit in Cannes for exploits last year was close to 5% on the contract/code side and the rest is bad governance, social engineering, spoofing etc.
Additionally, my view is that the hardening process of the remaining code just hit the fast forward button.
@maraoz What a moronic thing to say.
Less than 10% of past year DeFi issues are due to codebase.
It’s mostly bad parameter configuration, collateral blow up and poor opsec.
Humans have always been very reliable at being unreliable.
Agents with proper gaurdrails and onchain immutable governance will outperform us 100x, and will not be susceptible to social engineering and coercion.
The „decentralized“ in decentralized finance is not the issue:
🥊 INTERPOL’s 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment estimated global financial fraud losses at $442 billion in 2025 alone, and rates the risk as High with significant escalation expected over 3–5 years, largely driven by AI.
🥊 Juniper Research pegs the narrower banking fraud category at $23 billion in 2025, rising to $58.3 billion by 2030, a 153% increase driven by synthetic identity fraud and AI.
The tvl to losses ratio of defi is still disproportionately high. But the point is that off-chain deception and operational weak points, phishing, key and credential compromise mirrors traditional finance’s shift toward social engineering, APP fraud, and synthetic identity.
Smart-contract bugs and code breaches are becoming rare: at rktsummit in Canned the security researchers explained how less than 10% of 2025‘s crypto exploits were due to weak code.
What is being exploited is bad governance and opsec practices and it’s being speed run as a function of AI acceleration. We need more decentralization, not less. We need to get rid of single points of failure.
This is a rough path but it is also a quicker one for defi to get ready to upgrade the global financial system and bank billions of agents.