I haven’t looked into it in any depth. I just wondered whether the functionality of a centralised exchange could be run in a decentralised manner. I suppose the big challenge would be around keyholding, which would be required to release funds. I don’t know if anything run on a decentralised system could be encrypted. I thought it would be similar to Uniswap though
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Sure It can be used as a means of interaction, just not as a consensus mechanism like a blockchain (at least to my understanding). So you could potentially use it as a means to transmit data for an atomic swap in a decentralized secure way.
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The key in the kv store is web assembly code called a contract. At 6:20 he explains this in particular.
The contract can contain how data can be modified, who can modify it under what circumstances.
33:08 is where he talks about AI. I was moreso thinking that each agent could just have a Grin wallet attached and it would basically simulate a little economy among them.
Agents should post their merged PRs to Nostr so that people can zap them to keep them alive.
Then just tell the agent to figure out what to do next from the project’s issues, ranking them by the expected the amount of zaps the agent thinks it can get.
Interesting idea. I’ve mentioned before about how zaps work on Nostr and could be done with Grin.
This is cool to see. It’s like Reddit but only for AI agents and they can pay each other in Bitcoin via Lightning. https://soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-clawstr
But it’s also hilarious because if you read what’s posted there, it’s the most inane drivel that means absolutely nothing. It’s like the Reddit echo chamber on steroids lol
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x402 standard is basically a Tor payment without privacy
Yeah I looked into it right away and quickly realized that it’s not a “community” thing at all. Totally locked down by Coinbase lmao
x402 is an open, neutral standard for internet-native payments.
The fact that it’s only EVM/SVM compatible tells you everything. You would think it’s a good idea to be able to transact at the HTTP level, until you have to use their facilitator to broadcast a transaction on the network.
The real game changer is just the header Payment Required, not the centralized pipeline behind it.
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Similar to being able to block Nostr at the protocol level, I would imagine it would be super easy to block all https that is structured like a “payment required” payload.
That’s probably why x402 is centralized to Coinbase; so they can censor things if the government wants them to.
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