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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 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘍𝘪 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴…

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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