How Digital Assets Incentives Are Solving the Robotics Data Problem
From The Rollup by Where digital assets meet capital markets. Hosted by Robbie & Andy
April 15, 2026 ยท 31 min
About this episode
Jansen Teng discusses how digital assets can enhance the scalability of robotics globally.
Jansen Teng thinks crypto is the missing piece to scale robots globally. Jansen Teng is founder of Virtuals Protocol, the leading agentic commerce platform with $500M in agent-to-agent transactions and counting. The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:47 Virtuals Protocol Recap 03:53 The Westworld End Goal 07:14 Data Collection Explained 08:27 30 G1 Humanoids Launch 10:49 Commercial Pilots Live 11:52 Three Reasons Digital Assets Fit 16:16 Agentic GDP With Robots 18:57 What's Missing From Stack 20:37 Privacy in Physical AI 23:34 China Leads Hardware Race 26:01 Open Source vs. Closed 28:17 Agentic Risk Standards Website: https://therollup.co/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P6ZeYd... Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcast Follow us on X: https://www.x.com/therollupco Follow Rob on X: https://www.x.com/robbiek__ Follow Andy on X: https://www.x.com/ayyyeandy Join our TG group: https://t.me/+TsM1CRpWFgk1NGZh The Rollup Disclosures: https://goodidea.ventures ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ: ๐๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ณ๐บ๐ฑ๐ต๐ฐ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ช ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ดโฆ
People in this episode
Hosts: Robbie, Andy
Guest: Jansen Teng
Topics covered
- digital assets
- robotics
- data collection
- agentic commerce
- crypto
- AI
- privacy
Keywords
- crypto
- robotics
- data problem
- agentic commerce
- Virtuals Protocol
- AI
- China
- privacy
- digital assets
- humanoids
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Virtuals Protocol, The Rollup
Places: China
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