DEX in the City: Why AI Agents Are Good for Crypto and Stablecoins

Unchained

Laura Shin

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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If you’re looking for help with crypto taxes, Crypto Tax Girl is offering $100 off for Unchained listeners. They provide personalized crypto tax reports and tax returns, and availability before April 15 is limited. Go to http://cryptotaxgirl.com/unchained to save $100! The White House is intervening in the fight over stablecoin yield. And AI agents are… organizing? In this special episode of DEX in the City, Zerohash CEO Edward Woodford joins hosts Jessi Brooks and Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos to unpack the White House meeting to resolve disputes over the CLARITY Act and the Moltbook craze. Listen to find out why Edward thinks CLARITY should have a narrower focus and what he thinks is more important than the yield debate. Plus why Jessi thinks the crypto industry is pinning too much hope on the bill. Don't also miss Edward's rationale behind rejecting $2B from Mastercard and KK's awkward interaction with a teacher after offering to teach crypto at her son's school. Meanwhile, as AI agents proliferate, where does accountability lie? Hosts: Jessi Brooks, General Counsel at Ribbit Capital Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, General Counsel at StarkWare Guest: Edward Woodford, Founder and CEO of Zerohash Links: Crypto Market Structure Bill Clears Senate Committee — But the Hard Part Is Still Ahead Senators Move to Curb Passive Stablecoin Yields in Market Structure Push Mastercard in Talks to Buy Zerohash for $2 Billion: Report How the GENIUS Act Creates a Built-In Advantage for Banks and Deposit Tokens How Nansen’s New Trading Agent Makes It Easier to Follow the Smart Money Onchain How the x402 Standard Is Enabling AI Agents to Pay Each Other Reading is Fundamental Stablecoin for Babies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are so many issues we still have to deal with.
0:03.0	And we're somehow giving too much weight to clarity and thereby too much weight to this interest rate conversation in my opinion.
0:10.0	AI effectively have to roll up to either a person or non-natural person.
0:15.0	And so AI has to roll up from a KYC perspective.
0:17.0	And you have to be responsible for your agents in that sense.
0:22.4	And from a monetary perspective, you're ultimately liable for those pieces.
0:26.6	So I think it's almost like code, right?
0:28.5	If code goes rogue, you're responsible as a fact.
0:30.9	I like to Edwards' point, you make a very important point where if there is a centralized
0:36.1	party involved in utilizing
0:38.2	AI in any form, then there needs to be accountability from the centralized party perspective.
0:49.0	Hi all, and welcome to Dex in the city where the wallets are cold and the takes are hot.
0:54.5	First, we have Jesse, Web3 prosecutor turned Web 3 protector at Ribbett Capital.
0:59.1	Hi, team.
1:00.5	And I'm your host, Catherine, or KK, fluid in TradFi and conversant in deep tech over at Starkware.
1:07.2	V is out this week, so we are so pleased to have a special guest and fellow Chicago in here today.
1:14.5	Edward Woodford's CEO of Zero Hash. We cannot wait to hear from Edward. But before we get going,
1:21.3	remember, we're lawyers, but we're not your lawyers, so nothing you hear on decks in the city is legal or financial advice,
1:26.5	and it does not create an attorney-client relationship. For the fine print, check unchainedcrypto.com. We can't wait to dig in
1:33.8	with you, but before we get started, we're going to hear from our sponsors that make this show possible.
1:39.2	The energy network is an intelligent, decentralized grid that...
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