Gas fees? Chain abstraction? Wallets? POG-E? Bear market? Roadmap pivots? Bridging bugs to solutions faster than L2s ⏩
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@kunalb11 u've been one of the biggest inspirations in my entrepreneurial journey. ur insights on incentives, consumer behavior, and long-term thinking have shaped how I think about building products and businesses. Congratulations on this incredible milestone 🥳
Source: "Who Pays the Agent?" — Keyrock × @coinbase × Tempo × Virtuals Most data-rich report on agentic commerce I've read. h/t @erikreppel (x402) and @BrendanRyanDev (MPP/Tempo) Full thread above 🧵
AI agents settled $73M across 176M transactions last year. Card rails couldn't handle 76% of them. 4 companies are racing to own the payment stack for machines. 2 are already winning. 🧵
My take: build in the governance layer. Google and Visa don't own it. Liability gets encoded here. Agent identity gets solved here. Whoever cracks this won't just capture compliance - They'll become the SSL certificate authority for the machine economy.
8/ Directionally though, this feels important.
AI gets a wallet.
Crypto gets a better interface.
And Base is positioning itself as the chain AI agents transact on.
Worth watching closely.