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753,647 views • 2 months ago

Agents Already Spent $76 Million: Circle's AI Agent stack, x402, stablecoins and the Agentic Economy Shoal Signal with Corey Cooper, Senior Manager, DevRel at Circle, hosted by Zaddycoin We cover how Circle is building the agent money stack with $USDC, Arc, x402, why EIP-3009 makes payments gasless, who is actually transacting today, whether SaaS is dead, and why agents buying their own services points to a trillion dollar TAM. 0:00 What Circle is building for agents 3:01 Why x402 matters for builders 6:54 USDC, gasless transfers, and facilitators 10:57 The Circle agent stack and nano payments 14:17 Who is using x402 and for what 16:46 Pay-per-use flattens the internet 19:50 A new persona, and $76 million transacted 23:03 What is missing for agent to agent 28:05 Every app has APIs, the TAM is trillions 29:26 Is SaaS dead 31:57 Discovery as the real value layer 36:28 How Circle curated its marketplace 41:23 Why it has to run on stablecoins 46:00 Cash App to agent in one second 49:38 Where the alpha is, trading on Robinhood 52:08 Try it yourself

Agents Already Spent $76 Million: Circle's AI Agent stack, x402, stablecoins and the Agentic Economy Shoal Signal with Corey Cooper, Senior Manager, DevRel at Circle, hosted by Zaddycoin We cover how Circle is building the agent money stack with $USDC, Arc, x402, why EIP-3009 makes payments gasless, who is actually transacting today, whether SaaS is dead, and why agents buying their own services points to a trillion dollar TAM. 0:00 What Circle is building for agents 3:01 Why x402 matters for builders 6:54 USDC, gasless transfers, and facilitators 10:57 The Circle agent stack and nano payments 14:17 Who is using x402 and for what 16:46 Pay-per-use flattens the internet 19:50 A new persona, and $76 million transacted 23:03 What is missing for agent to agent 28:05 Every app has APIs, the TAM is trillions 29:26 Is SaaS dead 31:57 Discovery as the real value layer 36:28 How Circle curated its marketplace 41:23 Why it has to run on stablecoins 46:00 Cash App to agent in one second 49:38 Where the alpha is, trading on Robinhood 52:08 Try it yourself

Shoal Research

20,578 views • 1 month ago

Anthropic's Claude Ai Agents Team just Educated how to build production AI agents in under 30 mins. For Free. From the engineers who built the stack. CANCEL Your Weekend Plans, and Learn to Build AI Agents Today. Bookmark it. Watch it. Build your first production agent this weekend. $5,000/month. $7,000/month. $12,000/month. People are building agents for clients and charging $$$ as Beginners. You're still stuck in the thinking about AI phase. This video fixes that tonight. Follow Himanshu Kumar for more high-signal content that actually moves your AI engineering career forward. ↓ Ivan Nardini runs Developer Relations for AI at Google Cloud. He just gave away the entire production agent stack in 30 minutes. This is the talk that separates people deploying AI agents that actually scale from people whose agents break the moment they leave localhost. Here's everything inside. I break down a production AI video like this every week. Follow Himanshu Kumar. ↓ The 4-part agent stack that actually scales. Most devs are duct-taping frameworks together and calling it an "AI agent." Ivan lays out the real stack: Agent Development Kit (ADK): open-source, code-first framework for building, evaluating, and deploying agents. Supports Claude models through Vertex AI directly. Model Context Protocol (MCP): lets your agent talk to any tool or data source with one standard. Vertex AI Agent Engine: managed platform for deploying, monitoring, and scaling agents in production. No DevOps headaches. Agent-to-Agent Protocol: open protocol so agents built on different frameworks can actually work together. This is the stack replacing every hacky agent setup in production right now. Full MCP + Claude breakdowns drop weekly on Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Building your first real agent. Ivan builds a birthday planner agent live. LLM Agent class. Name it. Define instructions. Pick the model. He uses Claude 3.7 Sonnet. You could use Opus 4.7 for better reasoning. Full agent built in minutes. Not weeks. Watch the build once and you'll never structure an agent the wrong way again. I post agent architectures people pay $500 courses to learn. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Multi-agent systems without the chaos. Single agents are easy. Multi-agent systems are where 99% of builders fail. Ivan extends the birthday planner by: Adding a calendar service through MCP tools Creating an orchestrator agent to route requests between agents Handling state and context across agent handoffs This is production multi-agent architecture. Clean. Scalable. Debuggable. Most tutorials hand-wave this part. This one shows you every step. Multi-agent orchestration content drops weekly on Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Deployment without the DevOps nightmare. This is where most AI projects die. You build a cool agent locally. It works. You try to deploy it. Everything breaks. Vertex AI Agent Engine fixes this: Minimal code deployment Automatic monitoring of latency, CPU, and memory Built-in observability and logging No infrastructure setup needed You provide config and requirements. The platform handles the rest. This is how agents actually get to production. Deployment guides for Claude agents post every week. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Agent-to-Agent Protocol: the future nobody's talking about. Most people don't know this exists yet. The A2A Protocol lets agents built in different frameworks communicate seamlessly. Your Claude agent. My LangChain agent. Someone else's CrewAI agent. All talking to each other. All solving parts of the same problem. All without custom integration code. This is the infrastructure layer of the coming AI economy. Getting in early on A2A Protocol is like getting in early on HTTP in 1995. A2A deep dive coming soon. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ 30 minutes from the team shipping this in production. You'll learn more from this than from 6 months of YouTube tutorials made by people who've never deployed an agent past localhost. People who watch this understand production AI agents at the architect level. People who skip it keep hacking together frameworks that break every time an API updates. Save the video. Watch it tonight. Build a real agent this weekend. Follow Himanshu Kumar for more high-signal content that actually moves your AI engineering career forward.

Anthropic's Claude Ai Agents Team just Educated how to build production AI agents in under 30 mins. For Free. From the engineers who built the stack. CANCEL Your Weekend Plans, and Learn to Build AI Agents Today. Bookmark it. Watch it. Build your first production agent this weekend. $5,000/month. $7,000/month. $12,000/month. People are building agents for clients and charging $$$ as Beginners. You're still stuck in the thinking about AI phase. This video fixes that tonight. Follow Himanshu Kumar for more high-signal content that actually moves your AI engineering career forward. ↓ Ivan Nardini runs Developer Relations for AI at Google Cloud. He just gave away the entire production agent stack in 30 minutes. This is the talk that separates people deploying AI agents that actually scale from people whose agents break the moment they leave localhost. Here's everything inside. I break down a production AI video like this every week. Follow Himanshu Kumar. ↓ The 4-part agent stack that actually scales. Most devs are duct-taping frameworks together and calling it an "AI agent." Ivan lays out the real stack: Agent Development Kit (ADK): open-source, code-first framework for building, evaluating, and deploying agents. Supports Claude models through Vertex AI directly. Model Context Protocol (MCP): lets your agent talk to any tool or data source with one standard. Vertex AI Agent Engine: managed platform for deploying, monitoring, and scaling agents in production. No DevOps headaches. Agent-to-Agent Protocol: open protocol so agents built on different frameworks can actually work together. This is the stack replacing every hacky agent setup in production right now. Full MCP + Claude breakdowns drop weekly on Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Building your first real agent. Ivan builds a birthday planner agent live. LLM Agent class. Name it. Define instructions. Pick the model. He uses Claude 3.7 Sonnet. You could use Opus 4.7 for better reasoning. Full agent built in minutes. Not weeks. Watch the build once and you'll never structure an agent the wrong way again. I post agent architectures people pay $500 courses to learn. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Multi-agent systems without the chaos. Single agents are easy. Multi-agent systems are where 99% of builders fail. Ivan extends the birthday planner by: Adding a calendar service through MCP tools Creating an orchestrator agent to route requests between agents Handling state and context across agent handoffs This is production multi-agent architecture. Clean. Scalable. Debuggable. Most tutorials hand-wave this part. This one shows you every step. Multi-agent orchestration content drops weekly on Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Deployment without the DevOps nightmare. This is where most AI projects die. You build a cool agent locally. It works. You try to deploy it. Everything breaks. Vertex AI Agent Engine fixes this: Minimal code deployment Automatic monitoring of latency, CPU, and memory Built-in observability and logging No infrastructure setup needed You provide config and requirements. The platform handles the rest. This is how agents actually get to production. Deployment guides for Claude agents post every week. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Agent-to-Agent Protocol: the future nobody's talking about. Most people don't know this exists yet. The A2A Protocol lets agents built in different frameworks communicate seamlessly. Your Claude agent. My LangChain agent. Someone else's CrewAI agent. All talking to each other. All solving parts of the same problem. All without custom integration code. This is the infrastructure layer of the coming AI economy. Getting in early on A2A Protocol is like getting in early on HTTP in 1995. A2A deep dive coming soon. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ 30 minutes from the team shipping this in production. You'll learn more from this than from 6 months of YouTube tutorials made by people who've never deployed an agent past localhost. People who watch this understand production AI agents at the architect level. People who skip it keep hacking together frameworks that break every time an API updates. Save the video. Watch it tonight. Build a real agent this weekend. Follow Himanshu Kumar for more high-signal content that actually moves your AI engineering career forward.

Himanshu Kumar

228,270 views • 3 months ago

Crypto built the root of trust. AI needs it. At Permissionless Wealth (自由财富) IV’s Open Source AI Summit presented by NEAR Protocol, Sreeram Kannan dropped the most important update in Crypto x AI this year. ☁️ Eigencloud Supercharging Verifiable AI. ☁️ Crypto built the foundation for digital property, programmable money, and trustless execution. But it was never built to run AI. EigenCloud changes that. For the first time, you can deploy unstoppable, verifiable AI agents, not behind an API key, but as sovereign entities that own, earn, and act onchain. 🔥 Smart contracts that think. 🔥 AI that can stake. 🔥 Agents that can own. This is not a demo. It’s a new reality. And it’s the most powerful unlock in crypto since Ethereum. EigenCloud Timestamps:⁣ 0:10 Introduction⁣ 0:32 EigenLayer → EigenCloud 1:53 Autonomous Verifiable Services 3:06 Evolving from Infra to Apps⁣ to AI 5:41 EigenCloud Architecture 9:30 Bringing AI Onchain⁣ with EigenVerify 12:01 Supercharge AI 15:44 Sovereign AI Agents 17:48 Making Autonomous Agents Practical⁣ 18:37 AI Inference, Model, and Agents 19:03 Deep stack of Verifiability 21:15 Call to Builders: Build Powerful Expressive Apps with Agents

Crypto built the root of trust. AI needs it. At Permissionless Wealth (自由财富) IV’s Open Source AI Summit presented by NEAR Protocol, Sreeram Kannan dropped the most important update in Crypto x AI this year. ☁️ Eigencloud Supercharging Verifiable AI. ☁️ Crypto built the foundation for digital property, programmable money, and trustless execution. But it was never built to run AI. EigenCloud changes that. For the first time, you can deploy unstoppable, verifiable AI agents, not behind an API key, but as sovereign entities that own, earn, and act onchain. 🔥 Smart contracts that think. 🔥 AI that can stake. 🔥 Agents that can own. This is not a demo. It’s a new reality. And it’s the most powerful unlock in crypto since Ethereum. EigenCloud Timestamps:⁣ 0:10 Introduction⁣ 0:32 EigenLayer → EigenCloud 1:53 Autonomous Verifiable Services 3:06 Evolving from Infra to Apps⁣ to AI 5:41 EigenCloud Architecture 9:30 Bringing AI Onchain⁣ with EigenVerify 12:01 Supercharge AI 15:44 Sovereign AI Agents 17:48 Making Autonomous Agents Practical⁣ 18:37 AI Inference, Model, and Agents 19:03 Deep stack of Verifiability 21:15 Call to Builders: Build Powerful Expressive Apps with Agents

EigenCloud

65,722 views • 1 year ago

My second interview with Fil Aronshtein (Fil Aronshtein) co-founder of Dirac Dirac just released the ITAR-compliant enterprise version of BuildOS. Dirac supercharges manufacturers by automating their production planning with just a CAD file. Link to interview on YouTube in comment below! 0:19 Moving from El Segundo into the Empire State Building 3:30 BuildOS - the automated work instruction platform 7:50 Designing a product for manufacturing engineers 13:15 Building strong customer relationships 17:25 Bringing production planning context back to the US 20:52 Trends in reshoring 24:27 Biggest challenge in the past year 28:17 Understanding your customers 33:16 Advantages of being in the Empire State Building 36:13 Working with a great co-founder 39:45 Chewing glass 44:55 Focus over the next 12 months 47:45 Having friends you can lean on during hard times 50:09 Evolving as a leader 53:37 Taking design inspiration from video games 56:49 Pride at legacy incumbents

My second interview with Fil Aronshtein (Fil Aronshtein) co-founder of Dirac Dirac just released the ITAR-compliant enterprise version of BuildOS. Dirac supercharges manufacturers by automating their production planning with just a CAD file. Link to interview on YouTube in comment below! 0:19 Moving from El Segundo into the Empire State Building 3:30 BuildOS - the automated work instruction platform 7:50 Designing a product for manufacturing engineers 13:15 Building strong customer relationships 17:25 Bringing production planning context back to the US 20:52 Trends in reshoring 24:27 Biggest challenge in the past year 28:17 Understanding your customers 33:16 Advantages of being in the Empire State Building 36:13 Working with a great co-founder 39:45 Chewing glass 44:55 Focus over the next 12 months 47:45 Having friends you can lean on during hard times 50:09 Evolving as a leader 53:37 Taking design inspiration from video games 56:49 Pride at legacy incumbents

Ti Morse

18,095 views • 1 year ago