What Are AI Agents and How They Affect Crypto - Sishir Varghese, Spectral, Ep. 261
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Today Jason is joined by Spectral's Co-Founder & CEO, Sishir Varghese to discuss the Onchain Agent Economy and the future of machine intelligence networks aiding autonomous onchain agents . In this episode they discuss:

AI/LLM integration abstractions Revenue-generating agents

Competitive market dynamics: The Agent App Store

Agent transparency

A live Spectral demo! Agent-to-agent communication

And much more!

Episode article links:

• https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/30/cryptoai.html)
• https://goodalexander.com/posts/agenticprotocols/)
• https://www.spectrallabs.xyz/whitepaper)

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

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Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (05:17) On-chain agents (11:01) AI/LLM integration abstractions (14:28) Vitalik’s take on AI x Crypto (17:58) Spectral’s infra-chain (20:49) Revenue-generating agents (23:21) Competitive market dynamics: agent App Store (26:28) Agent verification (29:09) Agent transparency (32:36) Spectral Demo (37:42) Agent moats (40:04) Security parameters (41:46) Agents/protocols (43:36) Agent-to-agent communication (45:30) Outro

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