He left AI for crypto in 2020. Now
@shafu0x is building the payment rails AI agents need to function.
We talked x402,
@agentcashdev, and why agentic payments might be bigger than DeFi.
0:00 Could this be bigger than DeFi?
0:26 "I left AI for crypto and I'll never regret it"
2:19 Who is Shafu / Merit Systems
4:12 Why credit cards don't work for AI agents
6:37 What Agent Cash actually does
8:59 The x402scan origin story
12:57 Is agentic payments the next DeFi?
16:08 "We're not a crypto company"
18:36 The original sin of the internet
20:34 Researching a person for 60 cents
22:04 x402 vs MPP
24:29 "Open agent commerce is tiny. Nada."
25:42 The next 5 years
28:17 What crypto needs to focus on now
30:46 Crypto's reputation problem