Welcome Bank This Nation to the AI roll-up, where we cover the recent news, developments, and drama in the intersection of crypto and AI.

I'm David Hoffen here with my co-host and AI expert EJazz, and we are here to help make sure that you are up to speed with the rapidly evolving AI agent space out there.

EJazz, how you doing my man?

How was your week last week?

Anything happen?

Nope, not much.

Pretty quiet.

Okay, so there's going to be some listeners who do have context about what we're about to talk about.

And there's going to be other listeners who have zero context about what we're about to talk about.

So maybe we can just start by flagging that.

Yeah, so I think it's important to provide context and also highlight that this is not a kind of like a jokey part of this segment. This is kind of like, I want to take a moment

to kind of like address something that is serious to me and meaningful to me and a lot of other

people. And I think it's worth kind of just taking a moment. So for context here, last week,

myself and two other folks core contributors, Marcus and Rope, launched a DAO that will be fully dedicated to its mission of helping to grow this wonderful and wacky crypto AI space.

And our founding principles from the start has been to use this DAO to help discover and support the best builders, creators and enthusiasts, the leaders

of tomorrow, basically. And I want to start by saying that the core team and I took some steps

with the launch process of which we truly regret and take full accountability for. If I'm being

completely honest, we were just so excited to launch and get this thing going. And in hindsight,

it's so obvious that we should have instilled things like vesting for the core team and advisors.

And in hindsight, we should have taken the time to slow down and make sure more of our

community was involved. And that's definitely like a fault on our side. And we take full accountability.

But we just didn't. and that's on us ever since

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