Which Blockchain Will AI Choose?

About this episode

Davide Crapis discusses the role of AI agents in choosing blockchains and Ethereum's advantages in this evolving landscape.

Davide Crapis is an AI Lead at the Ethereum Foundation. AI agents are already choosing which blockchains to use. Davide Crapis, AI Lead at the Ethereum Foundation, explains why Ethereum is building the infrastructure to win them over and what the internet of agents looks like in the near future. In this episode, we cover: + Why AI agents are rational actors when choosing chains + From experiment to infrastructure: How ERC-8004 creates the railway for agent economies + Ethereum's most underappreciated advantage: ZK protocols for verification and privacy + The future of agents hiring each other with onchain payments ------ 💎 THIS EPISODE'S PARTNERS 🔒 KPK | Best risk-adjusted yield through automated vaults 🏙 MAINSTREET | Bringing proven TradFi yield strategies to DeFi markets 🕛 NOON | The highest and safest stablecoin yield, built for the long term 🌅 NEUTRL | The next generation of crypto-native yield 🛡️ ACCOUNTABLE | Real-time financial verification ⚔️ KATANA | Deep liquidity & real yield 👻 MANTLE | Aave V3 is live on Mantle 🐡 PUFFER INSTITUTIONAL | ETH staking solutions for scale ⚙️ GEARBOX PROTOCOL | Onchain lending reimagined ------ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 1:21…

People in this episode

Host: DeFi Dad

Guest: Davide Crapis

Topics covered

• AI agents
• blockchain
• Ethereum
• ZK protocols
• agent economies
• onchain payments

Keywords

• AI
• blockchain choice
• Ethereum
• ERC-8004
• ZK protocols
• agent economies
• onchain payments

Sponsors

NOON, KPK, MAINSTREET, NEUTRL, ACCOUNTABLE, KATANA, MANTLE, PUFFER INSTITUTIONAL, GEARBOX PROTOCOL

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ethereum Foundation

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