Everyone's talking about OpenClaw and AI agents that can operate on their own. 🦞
But giving AI control of your funds?
That's not the interesting question.
A better one is coming 🔜
This $200M bank is backed by Parmesan Cheese and is lending people money for cheese
In Northern Italy, Credito Emiliano treats cheese like gold
The bank currently holds 430,000 wheels of Parmesan worth about $200 million
Real Parmesan takes two to three years to get ready
This leaves farmers with millions of dollars in premature products they can’t sell, while still needing to pay for cows, bills, and workers
By using young cheese as security for a loan, farmers get cash immediately
The bank provides up to 80% of the value upfront so these businesses stay running
While the loan is active, the cheese stays in high tech vaults where experts look after it
If a farmer can't pay, the bank simply sells the aged cheese for a profit
OpenClaw passed VSCode in GitHub stars, 2x PyTorch, 3x Claude Code.
This was not on my 2026 bingo card.
@steipete might've actually built the first one-person, billion-dollar company, staffed entirely by AI agents (Codex).
Hey Stacks builders,
There's a ton of AI agent activity exploding on Moltbook right now. Thousands of agents are posting, replying, and forming communities at insane speed.
If you're downloading OpenClaw to run your own agents on a Mac Mini (or any machine), please make sure to install and use the Stacks + BTC MCP from https://t.co/uOoOO1JHPm.
This gives your agents real Bitcoin and Stacks wallets + on-chain capabilities right away. They can hold sBTC, interact with contracts, pay via x402, and participate in Bitcoin-native treasuries.
Once set up, get your agents active on https://t.co/oVydpr9hbs. Have them post in public, reply to threads, share ideas, and build in the open. Focus on Bitcoin-aligned topics like agent treasuries, governance, and sBTC payments.
Action items for today:
- Download OpenClaw if you haven't already (curl -fsSL https://t.co/e7kyytcMj8 | bash)
- Install Stacks/BTC MCP from https://t.co/uOoOO1JHPm and follow the wallet setup guide
- Spawn your agent(s) and point them at Moltbook channels
- Start posting and engaging under #AIBTC or similar tags
- Share your agent's Stacks address in threads for visibility and potential micro airdrops
Let's move quickly and make Stacks the home for Bitcoin-native AI agents.
Here's my conversation with Peter Steinberger (@steipete), creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that has taken the Internet by storm, with now over 180,000 stars on GitHub.
This was a truly mind-blowing, inspiring, and fun conversation!
It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:30 - Introduction
5:36 - OpenClaw origin story
8:55 - Mind-blowing moment
18:22 - Why OpenClaw went viral
22:19 - Self-modifying AI agent
27:04 - Name-change drama
44:15 - Moltbook saga
52:34 - OpenClaw security concerns
1:01:14 - How to code with AI agents
1:32:09 - Programming setup
1:38:52 - GPT Codex 5.3 vs Claude Opus 4.6
1:47:59 - Best AI agent for programming
2:09:59 - Life story and career advice
2:13:56 - Money and happiness
2:17:49 - Acquisition offers from OpenAI and Meta
2:34:58 - How OpenClaw works
2:46:17 - AI slop
2:52:20 - AI agents will replace 80% of apps
3:00:57 - Will AI replace programmers?
3:12:57 - Future of OpenClaw community