At our Bankless Summit in Buenos Aires, four standout talks captured the frontier of crypto’s next chapter. Lincoln Murr lays out why x402 is emerging as the missing payment layer for the agentic internet. Shay Ketsdever explains how bots already run modern markets, and how programmable auctions and privacy can turn the bot economy into something that benefits people instead of exploits them. Michael Dong shows how real-time ZK proving unlocks a hundred-fold expansion of Ethereum’s computational power. And Luca Prosperi reframes money as a network, warning that today’s stablecoin architecture is a single point of failure and arguing for a more resilient, distributed monetary system.
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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES
0:00 Intro
4:26 x402 & The Agentic Internet | Lincoln Murr
22:58 The Bot Economy: When AI & MEV Collide | Shea Ketsdever
47:16 1000x the L1: The Path To Infinite Compute | Michael Dong
1:09:25 A Network Theory of Money | Luca Prosperi
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