NEW EP: What Went Wrong with Crypto AI Agents with Tarun Chitra and Wei Tai

Everyone’s talking AI agents, but no one’s asking the hard questions.

In today's episode, @ayyyeandy & @robbie_rollup sit down with @tarunchitra of @gauntlet_xyz and @_weidai of @1kxnetwork to cover:

> What’s next for crypto AI agents post-meme hype
> DeepSeek’s reward model and compute efficiency
> Can MCP become the "HTTP of AI agents"?
> Why are today’s agent protocols so insecure (and can crypto fix that?)
> Reasoning models and long-term AI planning
> Micro-payments and autonomous onchain agents

Full episode links below.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:49 Magic Ad
01:05 Current Research Landscape
04:01 Types of Quantum Computers
09:58 Quantum Crashing Compute Marketplace?
17:51 Why Run Models Locally?
22:04 The Next Agent Boom
26:29 What is MCP?
39:30 Mantle Ad
40:11 Agent to Agent Communication Trends
49:16 Model Training Rewards?
55:32 Commoditizing Compute