Based Show: Agentic DeFi, AI Traders & the Future of On-Chain Finance
Sahib X @tascha_panpan [ Founder @Infinit_Labs ]
00:00 — Harvard dropout disrupting finance
01:12 — Meet Tasha & her mission
01:54 — Why she left Harvard
03:01 — From Wall Street to Web3
04:26 — Her DeFi “aha” moment
07:19 — Why blockchain clicked for her
08:33 — Alpha Homora story
09:16 — Infinite Labs in simple words
10:30 — How Infinite’s DeFi agents work
12:39 — Airdrop farming & strategy use cases
15:56 — Infinite x Google partnership
18:58 — How Infinite makes money
23:16 — What X402 means for crypto
27:24 — Future of agentic DeFi
29:09 — AI traders vs retail
32:40 — Her favorite L1/L2
34:44 — Pendle strategy dominance
35:03 — How people think about Pendle
36:47 — Pendle = top 1% user knowledge
37:23 — Infinite simplifies Pendle
37:57 — Crypto vertical she dislikes
39:31 — Why on-chain games failed
40:04 — Building a global team from Thailand
41:17 — Challenges in Thailand’s talent pool
42:40 — Strength of a unified culture
44:15 — What’s next for Infinite
45:35 — DeFi as easy as ChatGPT
47:01 — Infinite expanding into TradFi
48:00 — Final message & outro
Tomorrow’s DeFi runs without humans. That’s Agentic Finance.
x402 enables agents to pay each other near instantly using stablecoins. No accounts, passwords, or middlemen. It handles small payments at scale, across blockchains.
ERC-8004 brings trust: every agent gets an on-chain identity NFT, a public reputation score, and proof of security audits. This lets agents prove who they are, how they've performed, and that they're safe to work with.
Together, these standards let external agents tap into INFINIT's 34+ DeFi agents. External agents verify INFINIT's reputation and identity via ERC-8004, then pay instantly through x402 for specialized services:
• Trading agents executing orders through INFINIT Strategies.
• Portfolio management agents hiring INFINIT Intelligence for market analysis.
Any agent can leverage INFINIT's expertise as a service, creating powerful new synergies.
This is agent-to-agent DeFi: autonomous capital that discovers, executes, and optimizes strategies without human intervention.
Tomorrow's economy runs on agentic networks where AI agents are the primary actors.
Humans set the rules. Agents execute.
🎙️ Second episode is live
✅I sit down with @tascha_panpan The Queen of DeFi and Co-Founder of @Infinit_Labs
From investment banker to PM to dropping out of Harvard Business School to build Alpha Finance Lab the project that introduced leveraged yield farming to DeFi
🔥So many gems for founders who want to raise money and build in crypto
We talk about the INFINIT core functions, DeFi and AI agents, GTM strategy, competition, market landscape, business model, and the future of INFINIT.
If you want to understand how real DeFi builders think this one is for you.
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0:00 Intro
1:02 Background
5:45 Lessons from working as a PM at Tencent
6:47 Why did you first get into crypto?
11:50 Alpha Finance
17:20 Lessons to first time founders
21:03 Experience raising money
24:18 INFINIT Fund raising
26:18 Advice for founder raising
28:52 Tips on how to spot bad VCs
29:40 What is INFINIT?
32:27 AI agents and DeFi Agents?
34:45 Prompt to DeFi
39:05 INFINIT Core functions
50:03 Why we dont see CRYPTO x AI projects takes off?
54:42 What's the GTM strategy?
1:01:028 Who are your competitors?
1:02:40 Where are INFINIT customers?
1:04:22 Future of INFINIT
1:09:04 How does INFINIT makes money?
1:12:33 Value accrual to the token?
1:13:34 Final words?