Agents Are the New Websites: MoonPay's AI Lead, Tony Plasencia on the CLI Bet and Agent Commerce
Shoal Signal with
@tonyplasencia3, AI and agents lead at
@moonpay, hosted by
@zaddycoin
We cover why everything is just a tool call, the pivot from chat to CLI, the big-three orchestrators and a finance-first Perplexity, why agents are the new websites, a curated skills marketplace, and how x402 expands TAM below the subscription floor.
0:00 Intro and Tony's path through Solana
2:40 Everything is just tool calls, and the CLI pivot
5:09 From orchestrator to spoke in the stack
8:09 The big three and verticalized orchestrators
11:10 Real use cases, prediction markets to commerce
12:46 Headless merchants and agent-ready catalogs
17:06 Agent SEO and "agents are the new websites"
20:24 A curated skills marketplace, not malware
21:33 Routing as a Michelin chef and sous chefs
25:51 What comes next, back to verticalized chat
29:22 What enterprises actually ask for
31:51 Charging on results, proving your value
36:00 Stablecoins, Iron, and the licensing moat