Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks | Lincoln, Shea, Michael, & Luca

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🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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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. ------ 📣BANKLESS SUMMIT 2025 | SPONSORED BY M0 https://bankless.cc/m0 ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🔵COINBASE | ETH & BTC BACKED LOANS https://bankless.cc/coinbase-borrow 🪙FRAXNET | MINT, REDEEM, & EARN https://bankless.cc/fraxnet 🦄UNISWAP LABS | SWAP NOW https://bankless.cc/uniswap-labs 🛞MANTLE | GLOBAL HACKATHON 2025 https://bankless.cc/mantle-hackathon 💤EIGHT SLEEP | IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP https://bankless.cc/eight-sleep ------ 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 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bankless, and we've got a treat for you on the show today. I'm here in the greatest city south of the equator, Buenos Aires, where over 10,000 people converged for Ethereum DevConnect. A week-long conference distributed all over the city. On the Tuesday of DevConnect, we hosted the Bankless Summit, where we gave 12 speakers the opportunity to deliver their best,
0:21.8	most educational, most passionate talk, the talk that they have just a burning desire to
0:26.8	espouse to the Ethereum community and therefore the world. We are packaging up a curated
0:32.5	selection of these talks into two episodes, one episode featuring the talks from all the
0:36.6	members of the Ethereum Foundation,
0:38.3	Tamash, Ansgar, Donkrad, and Danny Ryan. And another episode, which represents my four personal
0:43.5	favorites from the summit, talks from Che Ketzever from FlashBots, Lincoln Murr from
0:47.5	Coinbase, Michael Dong from Brevis, and Luca Prosperi from M0. The Bankless Summit was done in
0:53.7	partnership with M0, the Universal Stablecoin Platform.
0:56.9	They sit at the intersection of cypherpunk crypto economics and the Treadfi explosion of
1:00.5	interest in stable coins and stablecoin infrastructure.
1:03.5	They were just fantastic partners to have at the summit and really helped the whole thing
1:06.7	come together.
1:08.1	The episode you're about to hear right now are my four personal favorite talks from
1:11.1	the summit. The first from Lincoln Murr, who gives us the pitch for YX402, is going to change
1:16.5	everything about the internet. After that, Shea Katssever connects AI and MEV, which is especially
1:22.5	useful right after Lincoln claims how much new economic activity is going to happen because AI.
1:26.8	And then we go over to Michael Dong from Brevis, who teaches us about how big of a world
1:31.2	real-time ZK proving opens up not just for Ethereum, the protocol, but also its app layer.
1:36.9	And then lastly, Luca from M0 gives a technical talk on a non-technical subject, money,
1:42.7	and how money is inherently all about networks and
1:45.7	relationships. So let's go ahead and get into all these incredible talks, but first, a moment to
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