Crypto's Wild West Is Agents Now, NYC ETHCONF
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0:00A: Yeah, I would say that we are currently, if you, uh, in analogy to crypto in general, we’re kind of like in the early non-custodial age of agent economics, right? Which means that it’s the Wild West. You know, you put a private key in custody of your agent, it might go to shit, and you have only yourself to blame, right? Um, but you, you’re right to question whether this is what leads to mass adoption. I do think that eventually what we’re going to see is we’re going to see kind of like the Coinbase equivalent of that, where you have a reputable provider of these agents that is actually taking ownership of their decisions. They’re going to charge you an arm and a leg for doing that. But eventually, for mass adoption, that’s what we’re going to be like. People are not going to run their own Hermes or OpenClaw. As much as I love it as an engineer, we need accountability.
