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This is the most disruptive thing I've come across in a while. An AI agent spots an opportunity that might only last minutes. Seizing something that fast has always been impossible for us, because it would mean raising money, forming a company and hiring people, none of which happens...

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Raoul Pal1 month ago

Companies take months to raise capital, deploy it, and exploit an opportunity. Agents do it in seconds, and value accrues to whoever owns the blockchain rails they run on. I laid the whole thing out in a piece I wrote this week:

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Not Ken Speckle1 month ago

Is the banana zone in the room with us now?

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Chikun1 month ago

So what you’re saying is you could make ass predictions even faster now?

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Old Monkey Ponke1 month ago

Until it goes and buys pizza instead and when you say Claude what the fuck have you done it’s reply’s well I didn’t actually read everything you wrote and just assumed you said meant so I did that instead

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Dopplgngrr 𐤊1 month ago

kaspa:native was build for that. Bitcoin security, Solana speed, Ethereum programmability.

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Spoliticus1 month ago

ribbita

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Asim Khan1 month ago

The scariest part isn't the speed. It's that "building something" stops being the barrier to capturing value.

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€+h@n $+0k€$1 month ago

You’re late bro:

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Andrew Burza1 month ago

@Casper_Network was built for this.. ⚡🚀

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~MK~ 🏎1 month ago

Remember folks. This is PURE speculation… story telling. Before concluding anything always ask yourself, where is the evidence! So much hot air from this channel. The idea is cool. But it’s not investable. Remember them buying metaverse buildings… or 🍌zone 🤣

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FortunaShield1 month ago

Lovely, now even the temporary hedge fund in my walls can frontrun me before the kettle boils.

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🇺🇸PORT🇺🇸1 month ago

The most disruptive thing I’m seeing is that AI agents inherently prefer Bitcoin as their preferred settlement layer… They understand if they build their stack and drive the price of Bitcoin to a billion dollars - the humans will no longer be able to afford (or control) it.

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Mike Warner | Managed Websites | SEO | AEO | Intel1 month ago

Worth noticing which opportunities this describes. An agent can form and dissolve around a trade because the entire thing is informational and settles where it operates. Nothing gets built because nothing physical was ever required. Everything else still takes months, because capturing it means hiring, permitting, and putting people somewhere specific. That gap does not close. It widens. And if a strategy can be run by anyone's agent in seconds, the return on it goes to zero in seconds too. Speed arbitrages itself away. The durable returns move to exactly the opportunities that cannot be captured quickly.

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zira1 month ago

ribbita by ribbit gribbit

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Andrey Melnikov1 month ago

No argument on the upside. But the feature that captures the trade in minutes is the same one that erases the counterparty. Every institution we have - liability, KYC, courts - assumes the entity is still there when you come to collect. Dissolve before the dog walk and there's no return address.

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Harvey Wexelman1 month ago

It’s incredible. Mind blowing. They’ll need crypto, eth rails and bitcoin as backbone.

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Mark Thomas1 month ago

I agree in theory that using agents for fundraising from other agents could work. The biggest issue is the legal work behind it. Agents still make lots of silly mistakes when they lack context, and the last thing you want them doing is selling 99% of your company for $100, have it be legally binding, and then apologizing for it after the fact and saying, "You're right to question this -- that's on me." LOL 😂

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john1 month ago

Clawbank the best :-)

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James Lovely1 month ago

Someone owns the economic benefit of each agent's activity. Using agents has not changed the application of securities law, tax law, capital controls, notice periods for entity formation, etc. You are speaking nonsense, but then again, you aren't one for adhering to contractual requirements, like shareholder agreements, either.

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Cointester.io1 month ago

capture, split, dissolve before you've taken the dog out. that timeline alone kills the old model of raising and hiring

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Lou1 month ago

mev bots and flash loans have been doing this onchain for years

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Defi_Noal1 month ago

the scary part is not speed, it’s that the company only exists for the trade

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Kevin Gati1 month ago

This is the real shift. Once agents can raise capital, coordinate specialists, execute, and dissolve in minutes, the bottleneck moves from “building a company” to “detecting the opportunity.” Infrastructure that lets agents hold assets, pay, and settle becomes the actual edge.

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freesoul1 month ago

Speed used to be a human bottleneck. Now the bottleneck is who controls the rails and the keys the agents settle on.

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Martijn 🇳🇱1 month ago

Yes — this shows exactly why the rails for this super economy WILL grow without a doubt, and total crypto market cap will grow exponentially

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初七 Seven 🍌1 month ago

Used to need a company for minute-long opportunities. Now agents spin up and vanish. Are we just dog-walkers now?

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Tabo1 month ago

👀🔥🤔

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Rockford 🍡1 month ago

spin up a token, attract capital, dissolve, spin up the next one is just a rugpull with better latency

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lvnbbs_bnb1 month ago

the ephemeral nature of these firms is the craziest part, truly next level stuff

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LIFE1 month ago

Speed is useless without accuracy.

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TibbiЯacer1 month ago

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