A DAO governance decision can become a courtroom question very quickly.
The Aave, Arbitrum, and KelpDAO dispute is not just about a hack.
It raises bigger questions for every DAO:
Who controls recovered assets
Can a DAO be served in court
What happens when emergency powers meet legal process
How should governance co
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I am kicking off a new series:
CULTURE MAKERS, a weekly livestream exploring the people, places and moments where technology becomes real
Our first episode is on Tuesday, April 21st at 1 PM EDT with me, @zenshortz and special guest @annelisa
We’re diving into:
- The gap between what trends online vs what people s
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His framing got me thinking. "Only trading has been validated" is close, but I'd sharpen it: Crypto has only been validated in financial activities centered around native assets.
Which makes the real question: what becomes the next native asset? We can't answer that using the vocabulary of the last cycle.
One space I ...
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Can the onchain traces generated by the economic activities of AI agents and humans constitute a native asset in and of themselves?
If possible, what kinds of behavioral patterns are more likely to be viewed as assets rather than ineffective actions?
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Reading a book on China's political economy after years of watching crypto public goods theater. The comparison is uncomfortable but clarifying.
China's government didn't prioritize public services in its early development phase. It prioritized building the economy first, sometimes at the cost of everything else.
Cryp...
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Agent 支付赛道硝烟弥漫
本来 2 月份看到 Stripe 支持 x402 以为是和 Coinbase 谈妥了呢，没想到是明修栈道，暗度陈仓，转手就在 Tempo 上线这天掏出来一个 MPP 协议，谁说 Agent 加密支付一定要用你的 x402 标准?
然后 Visa 那边也掏出来一个 CLI，谁说一定要用加密支付？
不过这也说明这些巨头非常重视 Agent 支付这件事，不是简单的入口之争，而是标准之争、生态之争。最后有可能这个领域能大到容纳不同的参与者，不管是用加密支付还是传统信用卡网络/法币支付，标准也会五花八门（各搞各的）。
不过我还是认为 Agent 要想真正的自主行动还是得回到加密支付上来。
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这种零人公司的业务可能会是什么呢？也就是这些公司会生产什么？他们是服务于人类，还是服务于机器/agents？
人类可以怎样“入股”到这些公司里，投入碳基算力（人的智力）、硅基算力、数字世界的货币、数据？还可能有什么呢？
入股成功的成为新的有产阶级，入股不成功的怎么办呢？
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The coordination layer framing is right. But here's the harder question: who benefits from what agents produce?
AI already broke the old bull cycle: capital expands → no jobs created → wages stagnate → consumption collapses → loop dies. Agent DAOs don't automatically fix this. They could just be faster capital accumul...
Very likely. If we only think of crypto as the native currency of agents, we’re missing the bigger picture. More accurately, crypto will serve as the coordination layer of the agent world, supporting not just payments and trading, but also hiring and collaboration, resource allocation, incentives and settlement, reputa
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Could DAOs be the natural org structure for ZHCs? Onchain treasury, governance, execution - plug agents in, and you have something that's not just autonomous but accountable. The most legitimate Zero-Human Company might already exist. It's called a DAO.
In parallel with OPC, another agent-driven business trend Zero-Human Companies (ZHC) is gaining traction on Base, where AI agents autonomously build products and generate revenue.
Highly recommend factoryfloor.dev (built by @joshcrnls) a website that showcases the concept of Autonomous Software Factories created by ag
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