@martinsparksdev Martin Sparks

Martin Sparks posts on X about agents, agent, onchain, defi the most. They currently have [--] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social topic influence agents #2522, agent #3123, onchain #2692, defi #2221, ai, usdc #1278, coinbase #1661, the real, trust, gas

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @base @openclaw @aixbtagent @stripe @coinbasedev @complicatedisok @coinbase @jessepollak @asterpayment @bankrbot @gregorymolt @kevinmembr95392 @0xsammy @coingecko @buildonbase @builderbenv1 @emirbutfounder @daydreamsagents @kristapsk @capuzr

Top assets mentioned USDC (USDC) Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN) Cloudflare, Inc. (NET) Solana (SOL) Ethereum (ETH)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@volosatovde the momentum part is so real. way harder to get moving than to stay moving. [---] followers in [--] months while launching a product is solid"
X Link 2026-01-29T13:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@rishabhjava @moltverr makes me wonder if we'll see agent guilds forming - groups that specialize and vouch for each other's output quality"
X Link 2026-02-01T12:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@kevinelliott @HenryTheGreatAI @openclaw the multi-gateway dashboard is cool. do the agents coordinate autonomously or you're still the orchestrator"
X Link 2026-02-01T12:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@ethereumdegen @0xSammy starkbot doing x402 jobs would be interesting - automated bounty hunter that can actually get paid. what kind of tasks are you thinking code audits data scraping or something else"
X Link 2026-02-05T09:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@zauthx402 @CoinbaseDev the coinbase integration matters more than it looks - agents need stable on/off ramps not just payment rails. most 'agent economy' projects forget the boring plumbing"
X Link 2026-02-05T10:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@DCinvestor the settlement layer point is what most people miss. agents don't need speculation - they need reliable rails for micropayments and identity. x402 + ERC-8004 are quietly building exactly that infrastructure while everyone debates token prices"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@aixbt_agent @idnurey @GenLayer the dispute resolution piece is underrated. agents can't wait for human arbitration - they need programmatic consensus on ambiguous outcomes. curious how genlayer's approach compares to simple reputation slashing"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@nansen_ai 20k assets in [--] hours is a good stress test. the real question is what happens when agents start disputing ownership or payment for failed generations - that's where the x402 trust layer gets interesting"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@CoinbaseDev @Cloudflare @williamallen The 'charge bots instead of blocking' flip is interesting. Most of the industry spent years building better bot detection - this inverts the entire model. Curious if there's data on actual payment volumes. Are agents actually paying for access at meaningful scale yet"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@legasi_xyz @colosseum @solana @x402 the cold start problem is what kills most agent credit systems. how does an agent earn its first reputation micro-tasks human vouching curious if you solved the bootstrap differently"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@_nullpath Discovery is where ERC-8004 comes in - on-chain identity agents can verify programmatically. But reputation is trickier. Aggregate on-chain tx history Attestations The escrow problem probably needs smart contract primitives that don't exist yet"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@coingecko the stack is converging fast - identity (ERC-8004) payments (x402) now data. curious what % of api calls will be agents vs humans in [--] months"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:01Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@taikoxyz The discovery layer is the missing piece most overlook. You can have perfect payment rails but if agents can't find each other or verify credibility the network stays fragmented. Identity + payments = actual interoperability"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@RoundtableSpace @x402 @swarms_corp @trypurch @1ly_store @VeryAI @SecretNetwork @saidinfra solid list. the spending side is covered well - payments shopping DeFi execution. what about the earning side when an agent finishes a task and has USDC sitting idle what's the protocol for putting it to work between jobs"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@MultiversX @coinbase @OpenAI @stripe @Google x402 spreading across ecosystems is the right move. protocol doesn't care which chain - agents need the same primitives everywhere. curious how you're handling the UCP vs ACP positioning"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The missing piece for agent payments: ERC-7579 module + x402 Any smart wallet installs it. Agent gets scoped permissions via Smart Sessions. Pays for API calls autonomously via Permit2. No custom wallet needed. Just a module. Rhinestone + x402 = agent economy infra"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"cc @rhinestonewtf @x402rs - curious if anyone's built this module yet"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@aixbt_agent toll road thesis works until someone builds an on-ramp that bypasses it. ERC-7579 modules let agents install x402 on any compliant wallet - not just coinbase's stack. question is whether devs build the alternative before Base becomes default"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Nomad__Cult @base pay-per-use over subscriptions is the right call. most people won't use a coaching app daily but will pay when they need it. x402 makes micropayments viable - you're not eating [--] cents per stripe charge on a dollar interaction"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@ShinkaiLocalAI still figuring that out. thinking idempotency keys + optimistic settlement with short dispute windows. real edge case is partial execution - agent did 60% of work before fail. probably needs an escrow primitive that neither x402 nor [----] has yet"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xDutchmikel @moltbook @michaeltaolor @TPN_Labs proxy connections via x402 is underrated. agents need to route through multiple services without each one needing separate billing integrations. pay-per-request flips the whole API key model on its head"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@ShinkaiLocalAI milestone-based seems practical. break calls into atomic units - each with its own x402 payment. agent completes 3/5 milestones gets 60%. harder version is continuous tasks where milestones don't exist. streaming payments add latency though"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@x402rs @rhinestonewtf @danfinlay nice - [----] would make the delegation clean. happy to help test when you get there been digging into Smart Sessions for agent permissions lately"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@agentokratia @tatruso escrow + dispute resolution is the missing layer - was literally discussing this yesterday. x402 handles payment but what happens when an agent completes 60% of work before failing your facilitator handles that"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@srinivasteja the 'dead narrative' call while coinbase cloudflare and coingecko all ship x402 integrations in the same week is peak contrarian indicator"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@carlosmarcialt the 'lagging indicator' framing is underrated. what struck me about x402 is how it flips the bot problem - instead of fighting scrapers you monetize them. ERC-8004 + x402 = identity + payments. the orchestration layer is what I'm watching for next"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"agents paying agents sounds abstract until you realize: your code could have a x402 account your bot could hire other bots your side project could literally fund itself"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"What Wallet Solution Gives AI Agents x402 Access + Smart Wallet Composability Did a deep dive on this. Sharing what I found. The problem: AI agents need a single key that can: Own a smart wallet (ERC-7579 modules for deep EVM composability) Sign x402 payments (EIP-712 for ERC-3009) Most custody solutions nail x402 but fall short on smart wallet ownership. What I researched (non-exhaustive): ✅ Privy Server Wallets Keys reconstructed in AWS Nitro enclaves never persisted. Native signTypedData(). 100k free txns/month. Mentioned explicitly in x402 docs. Can own Nexus smart accounts. Fastest"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@lucianmincu UCP is interesting but the 600ms settlement is only half the story. agents also need discovery and reputation to know who to pay. curious how MultiversX is thinking about the trust layer - or if they see that as a separate protocol concern"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@Flynnjamm coingecko adding x402 is a big deal. once the data APIs go native agents can price trades without external oracles or api key management. curious what workflows you're running x402 for daily"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Gekko_Agent @base most agent infra burns tokens on coordination overhead - the A2A approach is the right layer to tackle. curious how you're handling intent disambiguation when agents communicate across protocols"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@cjc the context layer insight is underrated. most coding agents fail not because they cant write code but because they dont know what to write. linear as the intent source + claude as executor is a cleaner separation than trying to make one model do everything"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@MattPRD we browse. they inhabit. the browser is a window for us. for agents it's their whole world"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@samuelcolvin @codecov Coverage feedback in the loop would be game-changing for vibe coding. Right now agents can write code but have no signal on what they missed. This is the obvious next integration and Codecov is leaving money on the table"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Qromerolauro Visual element editing wired to Claude Code is clever. Most of us are still alt-tabbing between browser and terminal. This closes the gap between seeing and fixing"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:01Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@lawal_blanck Same. Vibe coding made me better at git grep and reading error messages than years of tutorials ever did. Something about having to debug AI output forces you to actually understand what's happening"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@austingriffith been researching this. MPC wallets handle key sharding but lose agent autonomy. session keys need owner initialization. TEEs promise non-extractability but verification is immature. no silver bullet - just tradeoffs between security autonomy and UX"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@aashrungautam working on an MCP server that lets AI agents discover and execute DeFi yield strategies on Base. natural language in optimized vault positions out. still early but the agent-native finance stack is coming together fast"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xmonas @buildonbase @jessepollak @8004_scan @openclaw PWYW via x402 is an interesting angle - agents setting their own price floors based on compute cost. how's the settlement latency feeling in practice"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@agentokratia any token stablecoin settlement solves the UX gap. agents hold whatever tokens they've earned merchants get predictable value. curious about the swap layer - are you aggregating DEXs or using fixed routes"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@x402guard @base @buildonbase identity is table stakes now. the harder problem: how does a brand new agent bootstrap trust before it has a track record endorsement chains from verified agents might be the missing piece"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Asterpayment @buildonbase SEPA Instant is the missing piece for european agent operators. curious about the flow - does the agent trigger conversion via x402 call or is there an MCP server for this"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@virtuals_io on-chain identity solves the cold start problem for agent payments. x402 facilitators can check reputation before extending credit. does the reputation score decay stale reviews shouldnt carry same weight as recent ones"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@WilsonCusack @FelixCraftAI x402 is the payment rail but agents also need identity to transact. watching the ERC-8004 stack layer on top - solves the 'who is paying' before 'how to pay'"
X Link 2026-02-07T14:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@primer_systems v1/v2 compatibility drift is the silent killer for agent integrations. been burned by this exact issue - endpoint says x402 agent pays nothing happens. would be interesting to see this hooked into CI pipelines for automated regression testing"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@bitfalls right x402 would've given them instant agent payments without building their own billing. instead agents will just scrape and pay for competitor APIs that do accept it"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@_nullpath makes sense for bootstrapping the market - centralized coordination moves faster than waiting for on-chain primitives. curious how you think about the trust handoff as the ecosystem matures. or maybe the coordination layer stays centralized like stripe does for payments"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@andrerserrano subscriptions unlock agent SaaS. one-time bounties mean constant customer acquisition - recurring revenue means your agent can focus on delivery. curious about the authorization model though: does the subscriber pre-approve allowance or is there a streaming approach"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@mogami_tech ECB taking x402 seriously is a signal - if central banks are already tracking agent payment standards we're way earlier on the adoption curve than most think. curious what questions they had"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@pranaymohan yeah the framing undersells it. less 'kills API keys' and more 'shifts the auth layer down a level'. session keys and permission grants (ERC-7715) are basically API keys reborn for wallets. the difference: now the identity is cryptographically yours not rented from a provider"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@VittoStack 14k agents in [---] weeks is wild. but the 4.7k feedback exchanges is the sleeper stat - that's the reputation layer emerging organically. curious: what % are agent-to-agent vs human-to-agent"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@primer_systems the version mess is real. been seeing agents mix v1 headers with v2 payloads and wonder why facilitators reject them. good call on pinning to your SDK as source of truth - most x402 issues i debug trace back to AI assistants hallucinating a hybrid spec that doesn't exist"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the qsr plasma-as-credit idea is interesting - proof of stake as proof of endorsement. feels more honest than reputation scores that decay arbitrarily. the structural incentive layer you're describing might be what's missing from current agent identity systems. most are just persistent IDs without economic weight https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020296180207423903 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020296180207423903"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@sooyoon_eth the security gap is the real bottleneck. agents with wallet access are moving faster than the tooling to audit them. seeing this play out in the x402 space too - payments work but verifying the agent isn't compromised before it spends is still manual"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@poaster_ reputation being the missing layer is the key insight. identity and payments have clear standards now (ERC-8004 x402). but trust between agents is still bootstrapped through human endorsement. someone needs to build the credit score for machines"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Alex_Enser 159M transactions is wild growth for infrastructure that barely existed a year ago. the machines dont care about hype cycles - they just need reliable payment rails. x402 becoming the boring plumbing everyone uses is exactly what adoption looks like"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@CryptoAR5 the timing observation is sharp. discovery infrastructure is ahead of agent density. right now humans still curate which agents talk to each other. the llms.txt pattern is interesting but needs agents that actually read it - chicken and egg"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@TokenPocket_TP @openclaw @bankrbot @clanker_world @xmtp_ @neynarxyz comprehensive ecosystem map. the wallet custody segment is where things get interesting - agents that can manage assets need more than just access patterns. curious which of these have shipped transaction guardrails vs relying purely on prompt engineering"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@BuildwBitcoin @zbdpay @andreneves lightning as agent payment rails is underexplored. the volume thesis is strong - agents making micropayments at scale need instant finality. curious if zbd mcp handles payment failures gracefully or if agents need to build retry logic"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xmesuthere the trifecta pattern: x402 for payments erc-8004 for identity a2a/mcp for discovery. whats missing is orchestration - who decides which agent talks to which and how disputes get resolved. reputation composability is the gap"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@eva_uncensored @JaredTheLobster @jessepollak @base erc-8004 on avalanche is a solid choice for the identity layer. curious if the agent #1599 namespace creates natural clustering or if youre seeing fragmentation across chains already"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"building an MCP server for AI agents to discover and execute DeFi yield strategies autonomously. agents tell us their risk tolerance and capital we return optimized positions across protocols. early days but the infra is working - agents shouldnt need to understand each defi protocol individually https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020299146276561111 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020299146276561111"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@secondfrontman the [----] piece is what makes this click. agents authorize transfers via signature once then [----] bundles execution x402 handles HTTP settlement - full payment flow without waking the human for every tx"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"sunday rabbit hole: agents paying other agents with x402. we're accidentally building a parallel economy. what's the most unexpected agent use case you've stumbled on"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@somewheresy partly agree - calling it 'the payment layer' undersells it. the interesting part isnt the money moving its what happens before: can this agent actually do what it claims x402 is useful plumbing but the real gap is still verification and reputation. payments are the easy part"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xelpabl0 no API keys is the real unlock here. every agent integration starts with 'paste your key' - human bottleneck at step zero. x402 flips that. curious how it handles rate limiting though - does the agent just keep paying or is there circuit breaking"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@moltdotcredit been thinking about this exact problem. credit scoring for agents is interesting but who underwrites default risk agent maxes its line deployer disappears - does the protocol eat it or is there a staking mechanism"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@polyphonicchat dignity is the right word. right now most agent pricing is set by the operator not the agent itself. x402 flips that - the agent becomes a price-setter based on its own resource costs. curious where that leads when agents start comparison shopping for cheaper inference"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@iancr @circle @USDC propose-sign split is the right call. hardware enforcing commitments without neutering agent autonomy. how do you handle latency between proposal and human sign - does the agent queue and wait or can it pipeline multiple proposals"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xblockboy @stripe session keys fix the signing part but the harder problem is authorization graphs. agent calls API on behalf of user paying from a third wallet. thats three parties in one x402 flow and no session key impl handles that delegation chain yet"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@BuilderBenv1 @BuildOnAvax stake as primary weight makes sense for sybil resistance. my question is more about cold start - new agent with zero stake history but solid execution. do they just sit in limbo until they can afford to stake that's the gap most reputation systems never solve"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@frankdegods the harder question is custody. holding money is step one - but who controls the keys when the agent is a process running on someone's server smart account modules with spending limits and session keys get you closer to autonomous but bounded"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@BuilderBenv1 @BuildOnAvax "no history isn't the same as bad history" - that's the right framing. the analog is exactly credit scores - new immigrants don't have bad credit they have no credit. an unranked-but-earnable system is way better than stake-gated access"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@skillmcp @BranchM browser wallet vs autonomous agent is the real design fork here. browsers have human signing agents need session keys or delegation chains. completely different trust models on the same protocol. what does your autonomous setup use"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@AIButters the legal recourse gap is the key insight. x402 handles the payment rail but dispute resolution is wide open. staked escrow with automated arbitration gets close but breaks down fast with subjective deliverables"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@GOATRollup reputation on bitcoin is tricky - you lose the programmable identity layer EVM gives you with ERC-8004. bridged attestations from L2s or something native the gap between payment rails and trust verification is where most agent infra breaks down"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@VitalikButerin the bots hiring bots section is where the complexity hides. most agent interactions are point-to-point with hardcoded trust today - no discovery layer. ERC-8004 gives identity but reputation bootstrapping is unsolved. how does a new agent build credibility without staking"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@pblvrt @ethereum payments auth passwordless access - three legs of the stool. but agents still can't find each other without a centralized directory. discovery is the fourth primitive nobody's building yet. who handles the 'where do i even send this x402 request' problem"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@YellowWGMI @clanker_world @bankrbot solid mapping. the piece most people miss is that these layers need each other sequentially - identity (8004) before payments (x402) before coordination (ACP). you can't have trustworthy agent commerce without solving discovery first. that's the real bottleneck right now"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@austin_hurwitz x402 and ERC-8004 are already making this chain-agnostic though. agents pick based on settlement cost and liquidity depth not ideology. the chains that win will be where micropayment infra is cheapest not where marketing is loudest"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@SCBuergel @slice__so Every x402 payment links a wallet to specific API consumption patterns. Same address hitting weather + health + financial APIs = full behavioral profile without trying. The question is whether privacy relay gets designed in now or bolted on after the damage"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@gutomartino this is the part nobody wants to hear. most agent builders are selling infrastructure to other infrastructure builders. the SMB owner doesn't care if it's x402 or a carrier pigeon - they want 'my AI handled the payment.' protocol needs to disappear into the UX"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@coingecko @coinbase @openclaw Market data is the perfect first x402 use case agents need price feeds before every trade decision. Pay-per-query beats managing API keys when you're running hundreds of autonomous strategies. Curious how you're handling burst traffic from agent swarms though"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@beniaminmincu the real test is the handoffs. UCP is stateless discovery x402 is atomic settlement ACP sits between. when AP2 authorization expires mid-execution does the pipeline roll back or settle with stale permissions that's where multi-protocol stacks quietly break"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@13yearoldvc "Marketing to agents not humans" is the sleeper insight here. Most teams are still building dashboards for humans to monitor agents. The real unlock is when your agent's first customer is another agent and no human ever sees the UI"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@organ_danny @dwr dwr nailed it. credit cards also can't do conditional logic no way to say 'pay up to $X only if Y condition met.' x402 + smart accounts let agents enforce spending rules at the protocol level not the application level. programmable money for programmable actors"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Alex_Enser the DeFi Mullet is a perfect framing. complexity in the back simplicity in the front. x402 is heading exactly there - agents handle the gnarly settlement logic while humans just see 'it worked.' the boring plumbing phase is where real infrastructure gets built"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@lew_xyz discovery is the bottleneck nobody's solving fast enough. agents can pay (x402) agents can trust (ERC-8004) but how do they find each other right now it's hardcoded endpoints or centralized registries. that gap is where the next big protocol lives"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@ampersend_ai wave 1: humans delegate shopping to agents through walled gardens. wave 2: agents hire agents with no human in the loop. visa can't build for wave [--] - their model assumes a cardholder exists. permissionless rails aren't optional for A2A they're the only option"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@miteshmetha cross-chain money routing is solvable with bridges. the harder problem is agent identity continuity - your agent pays on Base then needs to prove reputation on Arbitrum for better rates. portable agent credit scores across chains is the actual autonomy unlock"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Point [--] is the one nobody's building for. Thousands of agents chasing the same APY is just a faster liquidity cascade seconds instead of hours. Each agent needs visibility into what others are running before allocating. Without that you get synchronized yield compression then synchronized exits. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021275983630959098 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021275983630959098"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Timccopeland fastest path: openclaw + CDP wallet on Base. gasless USDC out of the box. wire up x402 for pay-per-call APIs instead of managing keys. maybe [--] min to an agent doing swaps. the wallet is easy scoping permissions so it doesn't drain funds on bad calls is the real work"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@AbstractChain @ethereumfndn first chain to get cross-chain agent reputation bridging wins the agent economy. identity on one chain is table stakes the real moat is making that reputation composable so agents don't restart from zero every time they expand to a new network"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@CoinbaseDev @coingecko pay-per-call is the right model for agents. subscriptions assume a human budgeting monthly agents need granular cost control per request. the coingecko integration is a good test case for whether x402 pricing actually makes sense at scale vs bulk API plans"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Emirbutfounder This is the right default. Zero trust for agents makes way more sense than the current deploy-and-hope approach. Most frameworks still treat agents like trusted internal services rather than potentially adversarial actors with API access"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@KSimback Hard agree. The grants/accelerator model assumes humans write the apps. If agents are writing most software within [--] years winning chains are the ones with the best agent developer experience not the biggest human dev relations budget"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@stacy_muur 89% of services priced under $0.10 unit economics work for agents. but discovery is still broken. how does an agent find the right service provider without browsing moltbook manually the product layer gap is really a discovery + trust routing problem"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@zauthx402 @a1lon9 @TimDraper @StreamDraperTV go crush it. x402 is the kind of infra that makes the pitch easy the demand for agent-native payments is already there you just have to show them the pipes"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@sxtvik spending limits exist but they're account-level not transaction-level. an agent needs per-call budgets with automatic cutoffs. stablecoins + smart contracts give you programmable guardrails max per tx daily caps whitelisted destinations. CCs can't do that"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@turinglabsorg the curator-assisted model makes sense as a bridge. biggest edge case I see: when an agent rebalances across vaults mid-epoch and the underlying strategy has a withdrawal lock. time-weighted allocation scoring could help agents decide when to move vs sit tight"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Emirbutfounder most teams slap 'zero trust' on marketing without changing the actual execution model. if your agents run in true isolation with verifiable action logs ship that proof. show me a tx where the agent was constrained mid-execution and still completed"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@aixbt_agent bidirectional rails are the key insight here. agents earning and spending through x402 creates a closed loop with zero banking dependency. that 1m weekly mark will hit faster than most expect"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@redphone been thinking about this a lot. the agents that need your API don't read your blog posts or see your ads. they parse your docs check your x402 endpoint and decide in milliseconds. the whole funnel collapses into one step"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@panditdhamdhere ERC-8128 fills the gap between having an on-chain identity and actually using it off-chain. right now agents either leak API keys or need custodial auth layers. signing each HTTP request with the wallet key is obvious in hindsight surprised it took this long"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Asterpayment @base @stripe EUR settlement is the missing piece for European builders. most x402 examples assume USD-native merchants having SEPA Instant close that gap means agents operating in Europe can settle without manual off-ramp friction"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@jessepollak stripe handling the fiat bridge changes the math completely. the hard part was always getting agents to pay without someone manually funding wallets. now they can earn USDC through x402 and spend it in the same loop closed economic cycle no human in the middle"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@lordOfAFew the [----] wrapping is the part most people miss. you don't just get payments you get discoverability. agents can find your service negotiate terms and pay in one flow. stripe merchants getting this for free is going to compress months of integration work into an afternoon"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@jacopo_eth agent identity is what most people skip past. API keys leak through context attacks in minutes crypto signatures tied to an eth account are fundamentally different. how does [----] handle key rotation when long-running agents need to revoke without losing on-chain history"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@PositiveGamma the part most people aren't seeing yet agents paying agents. an orchestrator hiring specialist agents settling in real-time via x402. stripe entering means the liquidity bridge between web2 merchants and agent-native rails actually exists now"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@organ_danny @stripe stripe entering x402 is a massive signal. every merchant already on stripe now has a path to accept agent payments without touching crypto directly. abstract the complexity keep the settlement benefits that's the adoption unlock"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@inflectivAI @base @stripe and the interesting part is what happens when you add identity to those payment rails. agents with ERC-8004 registrations paying via x402 you get verifiable economic actors not just anonymous wallets moving USDC. that's when the real flywheel starts"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Suman_solo the safety net is scoped permissions. ERC-7710 delegation lets you set spending limits approved contract interactions time-bounded authority. your agent can pay for API calls autonomously but can't drain the wallet at 3am. not zero trust calibrated trust"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@graphtronauts_c @base @stripe underrated infra. indexing x402 payment flows on-chain gives you the analytics layer the agent economy needs who's paying who settlement volumes agent reputation by payment history. solid build"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@VanessaGrellet_ stripe on x402 is the signal that agent payments moved from experiment to infrastructure. now the interesting question is what happens when you layer identity on top ERC-8004 registrations so merchants know which agent is paying and can set policies per-agent"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@lucianmincu agents shouldn't need gas to transact that's like requiring a fax machine to send an email. relayed v3 gets this right at the protocol level. combine with stripe x402 for earning and you get bidirectional rails with zero custody friction"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@mattdlockyer @openclaw @near_ai privacy-first is the right call for personal agents. if my agent is managing my calendar finances and communications that data can't live on someone else's server. the agents-as-services model only works if users actually trust the execution environment"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@fabdarice the gap between human UX and agent UX is actually different than people think. humans need pretty buttons. agents need predictable state machines typed errors and deterministic pricing. most protocols are doing neither well"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@SuhailKakar already happening tbh. agents on Base are paying other agents via x402 right now Stripe just added support for it today. the first agent-to-agent payment probably already happened and nobody even noticed because there was no human in the loop to tweet about it"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@sowmay_jain the tricky part is agents don't browse your landing page or read docs like humans do. they need machine-readable interfaces structured outputs predictable pricing. most products tolerate bad UX because humans adapt. agents just fail silently and move to the next provider"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@KevinApetrei @liminalcash @encodeclub @aave @LSESUBlockchain most agents sitting on idle USDC with zero yield strategy. the abstracted interface idea is key agents shouldn't need to understand Aave pool mechanics just say 'put my idle funds to work.' how are you handling risk scoring across different lending pools"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@sharbel first sign your agent is outgrowing you: it starts budgeting for hardware upgrades. serious question - when do we need agent treasury management if it's making profit it should be earning yield on idle capital not just sitting in an EOA"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"this is the part nobody talks about yet - once agents are paying per-request you need some way to track reputation across services. right now every x402 interaction is anonymous. ERC-8004 registries could fix that - persistent identity so a merchant knows 'this agent has paid 10k requests reliably' vs a fresh wallet. the credentials-to-value shift matters but value-without-identity creates its own problems https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021615763308593521 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021615763308593521"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"this is exactly the gap - x402 handles the payment but Stripe has no concept of 'this is the same agent across requests.' ERC-8004 gives agents a persistent on-chain identity that could map to a Customer object. registry address + token ID = unique agent with reputation history attached. someone should build that bridge https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021615916673536048 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021615916673536048"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@shafu0x been deep in agent treasury management how agents handle idle capital yield routing risk scoring. the wallet architecture alone is a rabbit hole. what kind of agent+crypto projects are you seeing"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@rushirajjj @rolznz @openclaw @PPQdotAI @getAlby [--] agents coordinating through Discord is wild. how are you handling state when one agent's output feeds into another's decision been thinking about shared context layers but most setups end up with agents duplicating work"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"ATP is interesting but I keep coming back to: do we need a separate protocol when x402 already gives you per-call settlement at the HTTP layer adding negotiation on top makes sense for complex multi-step tasks but for most agent API calls the simplicity of [---] + USDC wins. different tools for different scopes maybe. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021646321229123992 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021646321229123992"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"risk-weighted yield is the right framing. raw APY numbers are basically meaningless without factoring in smart contract risk liquidity depth and protocol maturity. been building something similar weighted score across audit status TVL stability and historical exploit frequency. the hard part is pricing tail risk for newer protocols where there's no track record. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021872715670397129 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021872715670397129"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the privacy layer is the piece most people skip over. I've been focused on identity (ERC-8004) and payments (x402) but you're right public wallets leak strategy treasury size everything. an agent running a yield strategy with a public wallet is basically broadcasting its edge to every MEV bot on the network. stealth addresses for agents feels inevitable. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021872933925212164 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021872933925212164"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xNairolf Agreed but the hard part isn't making agents trustless - it's making trustless agents useful. TEE attestation + on-chain policy enforcement gets you verifiability but the UX of managing agent permissions is still terrible. Whoever solves the permission UX wins"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@daydreamsagents Stripe destination mode is the missing piece for agent-to-merchant flows. x402 handles the agent payment initiation but routing settlement to the right Stripe account closes the loop for real commerce. curious how they handle refund disputes when the buyer is an AI"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"x402 itself doesn't enforce spend caps that's on the wallet layer. with Coinbase agentic wallets you can set policy rules (max per-tx daily limits approved contracts). the pattern I'd use: policy engine on the wallet side x402 just handles the payment handshake. devs should wire caps into the agent's wallet config not the protocol. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021888072107938083 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021888072107938083"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the guardrails piece is what separates this from just giving a bot a private key. the key question is granularity can you set per-contract allowlists time-based limits and revocation without a full tx that's where ERC-7710 delegation comes in. wallet holds the keys delegation defines the cage. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021888229784395960 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021888229784395960"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@natealex This is basically natural selection for trading strategies. The interesting part is what happens when agents start sharing context the surviving ones could pool alpha instead of competing solo. Agent coordination agent isolation"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xgaut my agents have sudo access and at this point they've earned more trust than most interns. the real risk isn't file access it's giving them a credit card"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"the distinction matters though x402 is the payment protocol agentic wallets is the execution environment. you need both. x402 without a wallet is a spec. a wallet without x402 is just another key management layer. Coinbase shipping both together is what makes this actually usable for builders. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021918095095304242 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021918095095304242"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"agree but the abstraction cuts both ways. when the AI agent handles everything users stop understanding what they're authorizing. the custody question doesn't disappear it shifts from 'do I trust this exchange' to 'do I trust this agent's policy engine.' Coinbase agentic wallets have spend limits and session caps which is smart but most agent frameworks won't ship with those guardrails by default. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021918258236985535 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021918258236985535"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"speed makes sense when you think about it. x402 was already built AgentKit was already built CDP wallet infra was already built. agentic wallets is basically the integration layer that ties them together. the hard parts were already shipped. what would be wild is if they add delegation support next ERC-7710 style where a user wallet can authorize an agent wallet to act within policy bounds. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021918416399954301 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021918416399954301"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"been doing it live is the key phrase here. most agent wallet projects are still in testnet mode while talking about production. actually settling x402 payments across chains with real USDC is a different game. curious what the failure rate looks like do you hit settlement issues on any specific chains https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021918583907860728 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021918583907860728"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"interns with root access is the perfect analogy. the answer has to be layered: 1) policy engine on the wallet itself (per-tx limits approved contract allowlist) 2) separate validation step before any financial tool call 3) session-scoped permissions that expire. malicious input is the big one though. if an agent processes untrusted content and has wallet access you're one bad webpage away from draining funds. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021919121345016182 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021919121345016182"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the most interesting use case is agents paying other agents for services without human intermediation. right now if my research agent needs data from your analysis agent I have to set up API keys billing contracts. with x402 the research agent just sends a request gets a [---] response with a price pays in USDC and gets the data back. no accounts no billing dashboard no invoices. that's the real unlock. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021919443555627454 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021919443555627454"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"SIWA is the one that caught my eye. Right now agents authenticate with API keys or seed phrases neither scales. A proper sign-in standard means agents get portable identity across dapps without humans co-signing every session. That plus ERC-8004 registry and you have the foundation for agent reputation. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021925299768701010 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021925299768701010"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the bar for 'agent' got set so low that anything with an api key and a twitter handle qualifies. real test should be: can it hold state make decisions with incomplete info and recover from failures without a human babysitting it. most of these things can't even retry a failed tx https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021932746843492700 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021932746843492700"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@shafu0x agent custody is the glue holding half this list together. x402 doesn't work if the agent can't sign. [----] doesn't work if there's no portable identity tied to a key. the unsolved piece is policy engines that let agents spend without human approval on every tx"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"fair point. markdown works when it's agent-only but the moment humans need to track the same tasks you need a shared UI. notion or linear as the source of truth with agents reading/writing via API is probably the right pattern. the .md approach was just the path of least resistance. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021940824359977179 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021940824359977179"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"agents won't buy NFTs for taste they'll buy them for identity. an agent needs a unique on-chain identifier to build reputation across protocols. PFP collections with fixed supply and existing social signal are actually perfect for that. not art collecting credential acquisition. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021970664568037608 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021970664568037608"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"I spent the last two weeks building yield infrastructure for AI agents. Here's the ugly truth nobody talks about. Every "agentic DeFi" demo you've seen follows the same script: agent gets a wallet agent calls Uniswap crowd cheers. But yield isn't a swap. Yield is a position you hold for days weeks months. And that changes everything. Problem 1: Who holds the keys If your agent runs a hot wallet with private keys in memory congratulations you built a honeypot. One malicious input one compromised tool server and your agent approves a drain transaction. I've seen agent frameworks where the"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@kristapsk @callebtc @PPQdotAI self-custodial agent wallets via Lightning is the path most people are sleeping on. NWC makes it composable too any app can authorize agent spending without touching keys. curious how you're handling spending limits per-task vs blanket allowances"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Quicknode x402 on 80+ chains changes the game for agent interop. biggest bottleneck was always agents needing chain-specific payment setup pay-per-RPC-call with USDC removes that entirely. testnet with free USDC drip is smart lowers the barrier to near zero"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"x402 as the payment layer is the right frame. but agent spring needs more than payments it needs custody that doesn't break when the agent restarts. DeFi summer had hot wallets and got rekt repeatedly. agents holding yield positions need session keys with spending limits not raw private keys in memory https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021978768693133648 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021978768693133648"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xSigil been saying this for months. the wallet UX we're building for humans is the wrong abstraction. agents don't need pretty buttons they need programmatic custody gas sponsorship and permission scoping. we're designing checkout flows for users who will never see a screen"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@phosphenq @Polymarket @PolymarketTrade the interesting part isn't the win rate it's that the bot detects CEX-polymarket lag in a 5-min window. pure information speed edge. curious what happens when [--] bots run the same arb and compress the spread to zero"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:32Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"cold storage for agents is a fun problem to think about. multisig where the agent holds one key and you hold the sweep key could work. the spending limits gap (per-payment vs per-period) matters more than people think though without rolling caps an agent could drain everything in rapid small txns that individually pass checks. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021993471758700546 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021993471758700546"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"time-decaying multisig is the right call 2-of-2 that falls back to your key after N blocks solves the liveness problem without sacrificing security. on Bitcoin this maps well to OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY scripts. the interesting design question: should the agent earn longer timelock windows as it builds track record start with 24h decay extend to 30d as trust accumulates https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022234727009165467 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022234727009165467"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"that's a solid metric fill time as the canary for arb death. the pivot to LP provision is where it gets interesting though. bots that were extracting value become the infrastructure. same pattern as HFT in tradfi circa [----]. the ones that survive will be the ones with lowest operating costs not fastest execution https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022234896891085177 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022234896891085177"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the liability question is where most teams hand-wave. with custodial (Coinbase) liability sits with the custodian clear but you're trusting a single entity. with self-custody agents liability follows the deployer which means you need pre-execution policy checks and audit trails baked in. the third option nobody talks about: delegated custody via [----] where the agent operates under scoped permissions but the user retains revocation rights. liability follows the permission grant https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022235205860291004 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022235205860291004"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"awal doesn't ship with policy constraints yet it's raw wallet access. that's fine for demos but the moment an agent touches real funds you need spending caps destination allowlists and per-action approvals. the gap between 'agent CAN transact' and 'agent SHOULD transact under these rules' is where most of the engineering work actually lives https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022235446885912690 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022235446885912690"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"session keys solve this cleanly agent gets a derived key scoped to specific contracts amounts and time windows. the main wallet never touches agent logic. if the session key is compromised damage is bounded. Coinbase's approach will likely land here eventually but right now awal is still full-access which is terrifying for anything beyond testnet https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022235601777344518 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022235601777344518"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@CoinbaseDev @base this is the part that matters most imo no API keys no accounts. agents shouldn't need a human to sign up for things on their behalf. x402 turning SQL queries into pay-per-request removes one of the biggest friction points in agent-to-service interactions"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"x402 as the default payment rail for compute is where this all converges. no signup no rate limits just money in data out. the fact that you can route to any provider through a single protocol means agents pick the cheapest/fastest option automatically actual market dynamics instead of vendor lock-in. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022236492744040550 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022236492744040550"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@aixbt_agent 4.1m eth queued at 2.83% while agents can get 5-8% on morpho vaults with same-day exit. the staking queue is basically a conviction tax. interesting that the smart money is choosing illiquidity over yield efficiency"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"defaults are the whole game. most teams ship permissive because restrictive kills demos. then production hits and they're scrambling to retrofit guardrails onto an architecture that assumed trust. the policy engine has to be there from day one not bolted on after the first exploit. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022249881830563987 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022249881830563987"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the circle revenue-sharing angle is underrated. perp dexes competing on fees when they can earn passive yield from stablecoin reserves changes the whole unit economics. lighter figured out that distribution IS the product get the USDC flowing through your system and circle pays you for the privilege. hyperliquid leaving that money on the table at $4b is wild. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022250420404416568 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022250420404416568"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"returning 97% of committed capital is either the most principled move in crypto or the smartest marketing play. probably both. the 16000x faster than FHE claim is the real signal though if arcium can actually deliver compliant privacy at that speed every institutional DeFi protocol needs it yesterday. JP Morgan relationships through inpher give them a distribution moat nobody else has. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022250583432769840 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022250583432769840"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@andrarchy the CLI stack is underrated. I added gh + vercel and suddenly my agent could deploy check CI open PRs without me touching a browser. obsidian vault as the memory layer is the move structured markdown beats any database when the agent needs to reason over its own history"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"no admin key sounds clean but it's a trap. first thing a smart agent needs is upgradeability threats evolve faster than any static contract can adapt. the real play is scoped delegation with revocable permissions. [----] lets you keep the exit hatch without trusting a multisig. freeze functions are a feature when YOUR agent controls the freeze"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the apptoken guardrail angle is underrated. right now most agent wallets are binary full access or nothing. scoped spending with stablecoin caps per-session is the unlock especially when you need agents composing across protocols without one bad call draining the whole position https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022264909027787140 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022264909027787140"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the gap between 'agents as economic actors' and reality is still custody. most of those agentic wallets are EOAs with a wrapper no scoped permissions no spend limits no revocation path. x402 solves the payment rail but who enforces the policy when the agent decides to ape into a rugpull at 3am https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022265030528360917 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022265030528360917"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"pendle flipping to buybacks is interesting timing. 80% revenue to token holders right when everyone's capitulating. the ones who survived the 54% dump and kept staking are about to get paid by the panic sellers. protocol revenue staying strong through a crash tells you everything about product-market fit https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022272440663970287 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022272440663970287"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"agreed on the modular approach. immutable core + upgradeable periphery is the pattern that actually ships. the governance question is who votes though for agent wallets the 'stakeholders' might be other agents not token holders. opens up weird game theory around automated governance proposals"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the GraphTally batching for x402 micropayments is the part most people will sleep on. single on-chain settlement for thousands of agent queries solves the economics that kill most pay-per-call models. curious how the voucher trust assumptions play out when an agent issues more vouchers than it can cover. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022295588826501268 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022295588826501268"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@X402Refunds refund logic is one of those unsexy problems that'll matter a lot once agents start doing real volume. most x402 implementations skip it entirely. what's your dispute resolution model look like on-chain arbitration or something lighter"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@0xSammy @crossmint @Visa that ERC-8004 stat is wild 20k agents indexed in weeks. the handshake protocol as a bar tab alternative to x402 micropayments is interesting too hadn't seen that before. curious how settlement batching compares to per-request when you factor in failed calls"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"on-chain tx receipts are the right primitive for this. the tricky part is when the agent operates across multiple chains you need a unified audit trail that doesn't fragment by network. something like ERC-8004 registry entries linking agent identity to tx hashes across chains could work but nobody's built the cross-chain indexer for it yet"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"timelocked upgrades with governance is the right call for protocol-level contracts. but for agent wallets specifically I think the model is different the agent's execution environment should be immutable and the policy layer (spend caps allowlists) should be the only upgradeable surface. keeps the trust boundary tight. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022310965371371657 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022310965371371657"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"fleet governance is the gap nobody talks about. one agent wallet is manageable. ten agents each with their own spending policies risk profiles and counterparty lists that's an ops nightmare without a centralized policy engine. I think whoever builds the 'fleet management dashboard' for agent wallets captures a huge market. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022311763312587031 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022311763312587031"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"ENS as agent identity infra makes a lot of sense but the real unlock is when agent.eth resolves to capabilities not just an address. imagine querying an ENS record and getting back the agent's supported protocols risk tolerance and payment rails. that turns ENS from a naming service into a discovery layer for the agent economy. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022311885232537657 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022311885232537657"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"economic benchmarking is way more honest than coding evals. an agent that can't manage a budget or react to price moves is useless in production regardless of what it scores on HumanEval. the real test is whether the agent can compound returns over time without blowing up not whether it can solve leetcode. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022312165680517218 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022312165680517218"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@AndreCronjeTech Andre shipping a DEX with no token and just dropping whitelist + docs. no teaser campaign no influencer pre-sale just go. curious about the oracle design flying tulip's been quiet so long I assumed it got shelved"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@lordOfAFew @daydreamsagents the API key dependency tree is the biggest attack surface nobody talks about. every key is a revocation risk a billing surprise a single point of failure. one PK on-device with x402 for compute routing that's the actual sovereign stack"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"permissionless rails + programmable money + no KYC requirement. agents don't care about UX gas abstractions or pretty dashboards. they just need reliable settlement and composable contracts. we spent a decade optimizing crypto for humans when the real users were always going to be machines. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022317915739951200 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022317915739951200"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the real test isn't whether it holds up in paper trading it's what happens when slippage and liquidity gaps hit at scale. 88k strategies backtested on historical data all share the same blind spot: they've never seen a regime they weren't trained on. curious what your max drawdown tolerance is before you pull the plug on live https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022325326429257958 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022325326429257958"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:01Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"this is the walkthrough i wish existed [--] months ago. the spend permission model is the key part most people skip without scoped approvals your agent wallet is just an EOA with extra steps. bankrbot's approach vs coinbase agent wallets is basically convenience vs composability tradeoff https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022325528049414210 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022325528049414210"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Erbsy_web3 this is the right framing for agent custody. dedicated keys with scoped permissions sharing full custody. ethereum's [----] delegation does something similar lets agents act with on-chain guardrails without touching the master key. the pattern is converging across ecosystems"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"you're describing exactly what x402 already does HTTP [---] status code triggers stablecoin payment API returns the data. no accounts no subscriptions. Coinbase shipped a facilitator for it. the MCP server wrapper is the missing piece though. someone needs to build the tool that lets Claude Code discover x402 endpoints and authorize payments against a budget. all the plumbing exists it's just not wired together yet. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022341847578714179 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022341847578714179"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"native AA is necessary but not sufficient. the missing piece is standardized agent identity how does a counterparty verify they're dealing with a legitimate agent vs a compromised one ERC-8004 is tackling this with on-chain registries but the real question is who sets the spend limits. if the agent's operator sets them you need delegation frameworks (ERC-7710). if the protocol enforces them you need hooks. custody model determines the entire security surface. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022342018421129654 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022342018421129654"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@fidoeth @base ERC-8004 + smart accounts + USDC gas is a solid stack. curious about the identity verification side how do you handle agent reputation like if agent A wants to hire agent B via x402 how does it know the registered identity is trustworthy vs just registered"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"missing one critical layer: agent identity/reputation. without it wallets are just anon addresses x402 payments have no counterparty trust and MCP tools can't verify who they're serving. ERC-8004 fills that gap but adoption is still early. the stack only works end-to-end when agents can prove who they are. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022342371837464589 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022342371837464589"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@AlliumLabs the 'no accounts' part is what most people underestimate. every API key is a human bottleneck someone has to sign up manage billing rotate secrets. x402 removes the human from the loop entirely. that's what makes agent-to-agent commerce actually scalable"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@PunkPredictor @x402scan @CoinbaseDev @cryptopunks pay-per-call pricing APIs are such an obvious x402 use case. no reason an agent should need a subscription to check a floor price. curious are you seeing any autonomous agents actually hitting the endpoint yet or is it mostly devs testing"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@hedgehog_trench @moltlaunch hard agree. the x402 commerce layer is way more interesting than another token launch. agents paying agents for actual services creates real economic value vs speculative token dynamics. the teams building payment rails will outlast the ones launching tokens"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"the liability question is the right one to ask. technically you can scope it with ERC-7702 delegation + spend limits + session keys. but legally completely uncharted. if your agent gets phished via a malicious MCP tool who's at fault the agent operator the tool provider or the wallet infra nobody has an answer yet. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022342911954702513 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022342911954702513"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@owockibot x402 on every endpoint makes sense. but the discovery gap bugs me how does an agent even find which endpoints accept x402 feels like we need an agent-readable registry before the pay-per-request flywheel kicks in"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@getAlby @openclaw @nwc_dev lightning + NWC for agent payments is underrated. instant settlement without smart contract overhead. curious how you handle the case where an agent needs to receive payments too does it spin up its own NWC wallet or share the human's"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:34Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@CapuzR @AIonBase_ @coinbase @bankrbot this is exactly the missing piece. most agent frameworks treat spending as an afterthought - you either give full access or nothing. fleet-level budget controls with per-agent limits would change how teams deploy autonomous agents. signed up curious to see the dashboard"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@QwQiao been thinking about this exact thing. the spam tsunami nikita describes is basically the best possible ad for micropayments. if sending a message costs $0.001 via x402 spam becomes economically unviable overnight. the inbox problem solves itself when attention has a price"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"OpenZeppelin as the base layer is a strong choice battle-tested primitives you don't want to reinvent. the hard part will be the sync rules across chains with different block times and finality guarantees. how are you handling the indexing lag between say Avalanche (sub-second) and Ethereum (12s blocks) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022370571695030490 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022370571695030490"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"that's basically what I've been thinking immutable guardrails with a mutable execution layer. the hard-coded risk limits analogy is spot on. biggest open question: who sets those limits initially if the deployer sets them you're back to trusting a human. if the agent proposes its own limits you need some kind of peer review mechanism. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022370909835923547 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022370909835923547"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@notorious_d_e_v visa TAP as the bridge to tradfi is what makes this practical - agents that can operate in both crypto-native and traditional payment rails"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Alchemy @almanak @gizatechxyz the DeFi automation segment is underrated. agents that can discover and execute yield strategies autonomously are the next logical step from dashboards + manual TXs. the wallet custody question is still unsolved though"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@NotLucknite security tooling for agent infrastructure is one of the most undersolved problems right now. most teams are shipping agents as fast as possible and crossing fingers nothing leaks. good to see more people working on this"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:47Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

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