MINT IS LIVE! 🧠✊ THINK AGENT BUNDLE MINT NOW ON @MAGICEDEN

Recorded: April 22, 2025 Duration: 1:37:18
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The Think Token launch today marks a pivotal moment in the crypto space, with a unique minting process that incentivizes early participation. Strategic partnerships and a growing community of over 70 companies highlight the project's commitment to decentralized AI and personal data ownership, while opportunities for staking rewards and educational grants further enhance its appeal.

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all right we're gonna live stream this too right alan yeah all right big day Patrick we good we get to just jump in yeah we're good how we how we stand it out there because uh making
sure there's no delay or anything with the live stream stuff you guys sound
good on mine awesome sounds good what is up y'all happy mint day happy mint day
let's go who do we got up on it oh dude shout it to Josh we got Baron we got
cap we got Ben whole crews here love to to josh we got baron we got cap we got
ben whole crew's here love to see it baron i'm actually using you're not probably you can't see
the live stream but i'm actually using my coaster from lisbon um one of the beaded coasters from
lisbon they're just sick all right big day today felix is going to come on in a minute and kind of
give an update on the mint um mike how you feeling i'm feeling great it's a sunny
day uh we got some ribeye that's getting ready in the in the oven we're uh we're in a good mood we've
been working a long time towards this vision and it's so cool to see the community support it's
been a while yep it's been a really good day so far felix do you want to come and give just
everybody just like the high level on the mint and then we'll just open it up and just talk to
whoever wants to talk about what we're doing.
Because we're going to be full court press all day long.
Felix, here.
Yeah, come on in.
All right.
So, Felix, just because you always have all the details.
And again, invite anybody up on stage if you have questions,
and we will get them answered for you.
So Felix, you want to kind of hit the high level?
Yeah, absolutely.
So we got eight minutes.
The Mint goes live at 11 a.m. PST,
and it's an open Mint, 24 hours,
but the kicker is that it's a bundle,
and there's rewards
Within the bundle and the one dynamic piece is the sooner you mint the
More think tokens you actually get so I'll just double click on that
that part because I know a lot of people are excited around that so
Mint ID number one will receive 5,000 think tokens ID number two four nine nine nine ID number three
four nine nine eight so forth all the way down to a flat rate of two and a half thousand so
everyone's guaranteed two and a half thousand and then there's going to be a 10% chance of a
of a 10k think bonus at TG so doing a slightly different dynamic and it was fun to work with
magic Eden to uh to figure this out.
Yeah, they've been great.
Shout out to the Magic Eden team.
They've been absolutely awesome.
Yeah, I see we've got Johnny in the crowd who's been helping us and I know we're going
to get the Magic Eden account up on here shortly.
Then outside of that, you get Art by Basic.
They might be joining us on this space soon, probably just to hang out.
I don't think anyone's ever heard them talk.
And then you get a first edition agent.
That's really the big thing.
Yes, there's the token, and people love tokens in this space, but the agent,
and that's what we've been building for is owning your own intelligence
and actually having an asset on chain, developing a soul, aka memories and whatnot,
so you can own your own intelligence.
Love it. All right, we're live streaming on YouTube. Patrick, did you post the link if anybody wants to kind of place up in the banner?
Awesome. Appreciate you, man. All right, any questions? Taco, are you up on stage with us, buddy?
GM, GM, yeah, I am.
GM, how you doing, buddy? I am doing well up on stage with us, buddy? GM, GM. Yeah, I am. GM, how you doing, buddy?
I am doing well.
How are you doing, man?
There's a lot going on, but we're having a good time.
I am live streaming my setup right now of me live getting ready to live mint this as well.
So I'm excited.
That's awesome.
So we're like the arena and abstract because we got to get at AVAX and,
abstract chain into agent territory.
That sounds awesome.
we just did a post 10 minutes ago,
which was a nice little highlight of,
just a handful of our partners.
Um, and we kind of split it down the middle with IP
because a big thing that we're pushing for is personalizing your agent
and having a body.
And there's a whole metaverse play there as well,
working with the Readyverse and a couple of other metaverses
that we can't mention yet.
And then on the other side of that announcement,
there's the whole AI infrastructure play. And Tarko, that's where we definitely aligned to date and in person. But that list is just
growing and there's more and more inbound coming that, to be honest, we're just trying to control
it at this point because there's a lot of people on this side. I think we had four new members to
AYA this last week, right? Yeah, I think we're in the mid-70s of companies that are committed to building on the Think standards.
And we've got more announcements that we're penning up as we speak,
that we'll continue to announce all the way in perpetuity, I guess.
I wouldn't be surprised if come TG, we're cracking 100 organizations.
Let's go. Let's go.
Just keeps on moving.
I'm making sure that I've got my Magic Eden set up right now because it's about to go down.
Five minutes.
We should talk about that.
So there were some questions I saw from people that had never mentioned a Magic Eden before.
And they were asking, like, do I need a Magic Eden wallet?
No, you do not need a Magic Eden wallet.
You can use any wallet you want.
Yeah, pretty self-explanatory.
But if somebody gets stuck, let us know, and we can always do screen sharing and try to help everybody out.
Ben, what's happening?
How you doing, sir?
Jesse, where in the name of AI agents did you get that cardigan from?
I do have – it's funny, Josh Ong is in the audience.
Josh and I geek out on this.
I collect vintage Gucci sweaters.
Well, that is an absolute...
It's a banger.
Like triumph, and I love it.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
I love it first sight with this cardigan.
I love that um so i had
a question and uh i just wanted to clear and then i'll i'll drop down i may come back up and down
and up and down all evening if that's cool because i'm and good luck to you all like three minutes
out two minutes out um it so i knew that it was running for 24 hours, but now on Magic Eden, with my finger poised to mint, I see that it says zero of nine, nine, nine, nine.
So is the mint capped at just 10,000?
That is a mistake that will be fixed the second it goes live.
Yeah, it's just a technical.
Yeah, that's a good question.
Magic Eden, as part of maintaining their consistency with successful launches, they have some pretty strict rails.
And we've got a pretty interesting approach with this.
So we've had to color a little bit outside the lines, and their engineering team has been really helpful.
But that's one thing, and it's just a minor aesthetic thing that will drop as soon as it goes live in a few minutes awesome thank you very much and uh good luck fellas appreciate that appreciate your support
ben uh good question oh johnny let's get johnny up here too uh what up doom i appreciate the text
this morning my friend yo what's up how are you guys you feeling good yeah feeling good like yeah
i think this is going to be a lot of fun. I think so too.
We got one minute, 49 seconds.
That's about to, I feel like,
I feel like it's like New Year's and the ball's going to drop or something.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Exactly. One minute and 40 seconds.
There we go.
Doom, I feel like anyone who's cooking ribeye steaks while they're about to
mint is feeling pretty good.
Ah, is that what you're doing?
I had to make sure the team eats good you know let's go working hard on this for a long time
i know you guys have been grinding forever on this what do you uh dude what do you think of
the the partnership little summary we posted 15 i love it smart as always have you seen i'm curious
you've been in this space a long time.
You've partnered with a lot of people inside and outside of this space.
How does that stack up?
I've said this many times when people ask me, like, hey, what do you think?
And it's like, look, I get a lot of deal flow.
I look at everything I can.
I talk with everybody I can.
And I've never seen a group that is more organized.
I've never seen a group that's better organized, that's smarter, that's more connected and more dialed in and just fixed on a mission than you guys.
So I'm just thrilled that we're finally here.
Appreciate you, sir. that's awesome i appreciate
the text this morning too that was really thoughtful oh no my my pleasure well well
well earned my friend well earned doom what aren't we thinking about what do you think of the
questions are that we like like what should we cover before this meant that maybe we haven't yet
i mean i would love for you to go into i mean mean, do we want to start this after?
Cause it's like going to start in 10 seconds.
Is that really the countdown?
It's like five seconds from now.
Gotta get it.
We're live.
Doom, what were you saying?
I'm minting.
Oh, got it.
What up, Steve? It's good to have all the homies here
Hey Brian come say hi. Hey guys Brian is Brian's on the building. I think he's making coffee
Say good morning Brian. Hey
Dude if anybody's ever in town, let us know you know like this house is full of a lot of very smart people
It's good to see you. How's your morning going, Brian? It's going great. Good.
Dude, we got to do an update on your studio.
So Brian started an AI movie studio with some friends from places like Pixar and stuff like
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's crazy.
What they're doing is awesome.
So we'll have to have you on the podcast again to update everybody because obviously you're
going to be using Souls to do work on it and all that kind of stuff.
Everybody's very excited.
Everybody's very excited.
I'm excited to talk about the people you have involved, too, because you've got a lot of heavy hitters.
I mean, you guys got people that have worked with Spielberg and all sorts of crazy stuff.
And it's called – what's the name?
Okay, what's the name of your studio?
Story First. It's called Story First. And anything you want the name of your studio story first it's called story first and anything you want plug it plug it it's
awesome story first all right three hundred thirty-two have been mentioned
already in the first minute yeah three five yeah I literally mentioned eleven
and I got numbers 219 to 222 21 I go one eight five one eight six
okay so tell them about the studio because what's awesome is like people 221. I go 185 and 186. My personal goal. Nice.
Okay, so tell them about the studio, because this is what's awesome, is people are using these
AI tools to build
entire new business
models, and so you're building
an entire new studio
with AI. Yeah, because here's the
thing, the big studios
have been trafficking in
spectacle for a long time and a lot of
times that spectacle doesn't have story attached to it anymore that's right yeah and i've worked
with a lot of these studios as a story consultant so i know what they know yeah i taught it to them
yeah they don't always use it so the reason that we did story first is because we can put the story
first we're using ai as a tool to tell stories on a bigger scale than we would otherwise be able to
do. And that'll change the way independent films get made. Independent films always were small
pieces. Yeah. But now you can do as big a piece as a studio. I love it. I love that even like
studios are getting built on this platform, like the stuff you're doing and the people you're
bringing in. Actually, what's it been like for you to talk to all these veterans? Have they been
pushing it back against AI?
Like, how has the response changed even in the last couple months or has it?
The people that are on board are way into it.
There are a lot of people who, you know, it's still kind of political, AI, and using that kind of image generation.
And so there are a lot of people who, I think because of peer pressure, a lot of artists are sort of bowing out.
Like, it can be a part of this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So that's been interesting. Okay so
we're starting a documentary series we're gonna start shooting tomorrow about
Brian building his studio and we're gonna announce a bunch of big
partnerships of people that are also like folks that you know well-known
organizations that are gonna be kind of backing Brian in this and you're gonna
get to know Brian, the other members of the team,
which are all like a who's who, right?
And so it'll be cool.
It'll be like, as you watch us build,
think, and souls,
you're also going to get to see artists
like Brian and his team
building like a whole new type of studio.
I think people will be into that.
Well, this is like,
this is what people should be thinking about now, right?
Like, we've got people that are like the best in their field and they're like it doesn't
matter i mean how old is he talking about how old you are i'm 60 and you're starting and he's
starting an ai studio let's fucking go yeah yeah hell yeah but it's crazy i mean you and the other
brian i mean the other brian you know has worked on minority report he did the clone wars and he's
a pixar director All this stuff.
Like when we start to show who all is working together on bringing this stuff to life.
Like if you've ever wanted to do something before, AI is your chance to jump the line.
Ryan and I were working on a Star Wars project together that got canceled.
And so we both are like, you know what?
We know how to do this stuff. We've been doing it for years for other people.
It's amazing.
I love it.
Writer and director of a Star Wars movie starting their own AI agency studio called Story First.
Also, I saw the branding.
It's Dynamite.
Yeah, it's cool.
It's Dynamite.
So I know you were just coming to eat coffee.
But anyway, it's just like, yeah.
So tomorrow we're going to shoot the first series, the first episode of the documentary.
And we're going to start letting the world know
about what you guys are building.
All right.
Thank you, Brian.
Enjoy your coffee.
Sorry to pull you in.
I love it.
All right.
Mike, where are we at?
So we're live?
We're closing in on my goal already.
And we're five minutes in.
Love to see it.
I think Ben had, who had a question?
Sorry, Johnny might've had a question.
Somebody did.
Oh dude, is Poppy, Jason, is JPEG Poppy up here?
Maybe not.
Oh, I think he might be coming up.
Sorry, I must've missed this.
Any questions, anything we can help with?
Hey, you wanted, you were asking me what I think you should cover.
Yes, yes, yes, that's right.
I definitely think that a really important thing to discuss is the idea of what the product that you've got is going to do,
but also the fact that it's gonna run so inexpensively
because it's gonna run locally for people.
And I'm A about how important that is,
but B how that's gonna be free for everyone.
Okay, so this is my shit.
Okay, so you wanna talk about the tech?
You should just go.
Okay, I'll talk about the tech.
I'll talk about the mission.
So Josh will remember this,
like for the people that went to like our first,
there's actually people in the space right now,
which is awesome, that actually came to our very first event,
which Josh hosted with Juan and John at their office,
which is awesome.
And we kind of laid out this slogan of like free think,
like you should be able to think for yourself.
And that wasn't just like a tagline, it was our mission.
We were trying to figure out how can we build something
that you could run locally on a device. And if your device is fast enough and you can do your own inference,
there's zero cost to it. Right. I mentioned this. I was actually at a school in Austin last week.
We're trying to figure out when we open source this, we were hoping other engineers will come
in and just help us like build and propagate this thing. But at the same time, like, again,
if you have a decent machine, you can run this stuff locally. There's no monthly expense to it. So when we said free think, we literally mean like, how do we give this away to everyone? There's a couple of things like if you want to use like more advanced, like, like, like, let's say Steve made an awesome agent, I want to use it, I'll have to buy it from him with think and all that kind of stuff. Or if I want to use more advanced stuff, like I want to bring in my NFT, I really care about how it looks, all those types of things that you're going to need think tokens for that.
But if you just want the base functionality of my custody, my own data, it gets smarter every day,
that's going to be free for everyone. Like we're going full scorched earth. Like,
like we've talked about it many times. If somebody comes in and uses the think protocol and build
something better than souls, we'll be rooting for them. We don't really care. What we're trying to do is just unleash the ability for you to have,
you know, unnerfed personal AI for everyone on the planet at zero cost.
And if you have a slower machine, we have an awesome partnership with Venice.
So you can still use Venice from an inference perspective
and like for chats and stuff like that.
And they don't custody your data either.
So we're really like as crazy as it sounds like we're actually trying to go after open AI with our little group of people and in
web 3 and try to put a debt in the universe you know so Mike you want to
talk about I guess how we're doing or anything on your side yeah I mean the
the network becomes super valuable right like you think about Facebook or any of these companies,
like building that initial network is like a massively valuable thing. And each one of these
agents is like a node on this network. And the think protocol is essentially the infrastructure,
right? So like if you live in America, you've benefited from having water to your house,
electricity to your house, roads to your house. And that's what can make a country can grow out of in a free market. Think agents are exactly that. It's a way to be able to bring
actual agency to each individual person so that they can walk into the intelligence age
with something that they actually own and they're not just renting in the intelligence age.
And that's what we've been building towards for a long time. And just seeing like,
I love this group of people who are here early because we have done absolutely everything we can to make sure that they win
Do you want to talk about some of the ways that people can win with us?
Yeah, for sure.
So we're about to, it looks like we'll probably cross 500 here by my next, uh, there you go.
My next, uh, refresh.
Um, and so those, essentially when somebody comes into this network, um, and they decide,
Hey, I'm going to stake my agent and my tokens. all of a sudden there's like a growth fund, right?
30% of all these tokens are in a growth fund that are going to be distributed to the people who have agents at stake.
And 3% of those tokens are going out every single month.
And so you can do the math on this where these early people, it'd be like if Facebook had launched with a very similar thing,
those early people who were on Facebook would be the ones with the biggest pages and growing and this sort of thing.
And we're designing everything so that the early adopters get to kind of be like the elders of the thing
because they'll have the tokens, they'll have the agents, they'll have the namespace, those sorts of things.
And the agent is always going to give you like access to the think tank, which you want
to talk about think tank.
Like I said, because we're giving this away as our long term goals, just to give this
away, you're like, okay, cool.
So why should I admit this?
It's like, well, you're going to be able to use your NFTs, you'll be able to pull in
characters, you'll be able to use other people's agents, all that kind of stuff.
But you're also going to have access to the staking stuff that if you don't have an agent, you can't participate in the staking.
Do you want to talk about – so we have basic staking, which is like day one, you're going to be able to stake your think and all the rewards and the emission stuff that you're talking about, Mike.
But then we have another type of staking pool on top of that that we're aiming for July called the think tank.
I'll hit the quick timeline that gets us to July.
Yeah, yeah, there you go.
So we have today, this is our April product launch,
the Mint, so next month TGE with the Think Token.
The following month, this is June now,
the Souls platform dropping.
And then in July, the Think Tank.
These are all the target days.
So we keep this momentum rolling month to month.
There you go, Gina.
Gina just said we crossed 500.
That was my goal for the day.
So I'm stoked.
I'm thrilled.
Back it up.
We're done here.
Thank you, Gina.
So in July, we're talking to launch the think tank.
What that essentially means is if you own one of these agents
from this Mint, which is going to be coined
as a first edition agent,
you'll get access to the Think Tank.
And we just did that partnership post,
so you can see the extent of our partnerships.
We're in talks with a lot of them where they want to do
some form of fair distribution for their token
or their product or whatever it is that they're working on.
And they want people that are actually, what's the best word to describe this?
They want people that are actually active in the space, not just necessarily speculators.
And so because what we're building in this core group are essentially people that are interested in AI and in particular like on-chain AI data privacy your web three kind of stuff it's the perfect cohort
to basically on board to these new products that are launching so if
there's a company X is gonna launch a token you know we're in conversations
when to get any allocation of that and then put it into the think tank so you
own a first edition agent.
You've also been getting stake and rewards off your think.
And now you almost get like a basket of the industry.
Yeah, there's a version of this where you fast forward 12 months and your stake think,
if you own one of these agents from this mint, could be earning you rewards from 12 different protocols.
And that's a bet on the space.
If you believe that AI is going to grow, which we're pretty convinced it is, and if you think
things are going to move on chain, you're betting, you're just getting to where the
puck's going and kind of diversifying your not investment.
Yeah, yeah.
You're diversifying your not investment. Like you're part of a network early, right?
That is how these kind of things work.
And we still aren't thinking nearly big enough because AI agents are going to use every app
in the world.
Every app becomes a tool for agents.
Agents become an always on customer that are building.
And so any app that you see that's a SaaS product,
there's going to be an agent version of it
and they're going to accept a token.
And there's a massive opportunity
for these app tokens right now
because just think of something as simple
as meeting notes.
The idea that you could have private meeting notes
that aren't on some company's server
that are going to sell that metadata to somebody, right?
Like everybody gave 23andMe their DNA and now it's going through bankruptcy and people's
like DNA is going for sale.
The exact same thing is true with your meeting notes or your email, all this shit.
And the fact that like people are going to be able to create all those apps, like the
inbox app that brings in your email, your telegram, all these sorts of things like this
ecosystem, there is going to be an AI ecosystem.
And the open ecosystems are always the one that win.
And I think think agents are in the prime spot to be the center of that network.
Can I give away some think today?
Let's bucket it in the sense that... Well, give me a bucket because here's what I want to do.
If you tweet that you have, if you tweet that you minted, right?
We'll run a contest that if you tweet that you minted,
we're going to give away Think Tokens
today and we'll just let Felix know
how much we're allowed to give away.
Who do we have up on stage?
Bildo, Johnny, how can we help?
If you're doing a giveaway, I would say
just remember to think bigger, Jesse.
Think bigger.
Bildo, you sound super far away.
One second.
Let me fix the mic.
All right.
I can fill the gap.
It's not like he was underwater.
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry, Mike's eating watermelon right now.
It's a nice day.
Check out Mike's shirt.
I love it.
Whenever Mike wears his Earth shirt,
it's like the perfect. The other day, Mike said he looks like Happy Gilmore's Caddy. And like when you showed up with your Earth shirt on, I was like, it's too fucking perfect. All right. Build, are you good? Not really. Not really. You sound like the parents from Peanuts. Yeah.
You sound like the parents from Peanuts.
All right, we can come back to Build-O if he figures it out.
All right, who we got?
Johnny, did you have something for us, buddy?
No, nothing, man.
Working on getting the intern over here to join in with the account.
But that's the reason they're an intern.
Sometimes they're a little slow to answer but
okay we're working we're gonna get them over here but uh super excited about the event going super
yeah very exciting for sure awesome appreciate all your guys support the team's been like every
time we've had something um you know kind of go a little bit sideways you guys were there to jump
in and make sure it was taken care of. So we appreciate you guys.
Alchemist, you got a question?
How are we doing today?
Good. How are you?
Doing good.
I must say I haven't been to an NFT in about three years.
And seeing you guys put up a live stream alongside the live mint,
it's kind of refreshing and it's just something that I haven't seen in a long time.
Let's go. Appreciate it. i remember the good old mint parties
the old days that was a good time it was a good time well i did have a question because i've been thinking about ai a lot on how to just automate a lot of things and just enhance decision making
i wanted to just um kind of dive in into the tools that are available
within the platform. How does it really work? Because for me, it's a little bit abstract.
I kind of want to put an idea behind it. Great. Yeah, sure. I mean, Mike, you want to ask?
Yeah, sure. So you're going to be able to log in to the Souls platform with your agent. And so that URL is S-O-U dot L-S.
And that's going to be like the operating system for your AI.
And so you're going to get there, connect your wallet,
and now that NFT acts as your authorization for anything that's happening there.
So at that point in time, you have the ability to own your own data.
So you can literally go in and there's a knowledge library where you can bring in any of your files from your machine.
And you can get that set up and now your agent has access to personal data that you want it to.
And then there's the ability to create personas.
And these personas can be thought of as like giving permissions to individual agents. So
the agent might have a mission or a strategy that you give it. It might have a personality that you
give it, and it can access a certain set of knowledge and tools. And so as people start
building these out, you can think about each one of those agents as being like a unique thing,
almost like an app. And there will be agents with different expertise.
Some will be great at generating, like using render network to generate generative images.
And other ones will be really great at collecting, being an inbox to be able to connect to your
Discord and Twitter and email and unify all of those like work streams that you have, right?
So it's a platform in which
the equivalent of apps, which are called agents, will be able to be built, deployed,
used, paid for, bought and sold, all of it using Web3 technology that's all interoperable.
Can I give you like some buckets to think about? And then Alchemist, you can figure out how you
would use them. Because the hardest part about talking about agents and where agents are going
is it's kind of like saying, well, what can I do agents and where agents are going is it's
kind of like saying well what can i do with the internet right and it's like well it depends on
what you're trying to achieve so there's a couple of things that um johnny clam and we can see dude
hit up johnny i know that he's heads down and see if he wants to join the space because he could
answer some questions too but like a couple of things johnny's working on right now so he's um
he's been testing a browser that you and your agent share together, right? And so
like for me, my background is mostly on kind of the comms, marketing, creative side. And so I think
about like, oh, it'd be great to like look at a Pinterest board with my agent and say, hey, based
off of this, build a brand, right? But I mean, the way you're going to use it, Alchemist, it'll
probably be something very different. Like, I don't know, maybe you're building a business or
something else. So all of a sudden, when you have a browser that you can share with your agent and all that data stays on your computer
what could you do with it I'm kind of like I don't know one of the things I'm really excited
about is when we go into beta we're gonna have a like a bounties like weekly bounties for anybody
that's posting videos of what they're using for souls because I literally have no idea how people
are going to use it you know what I mean and so that's one another one that john's working on really really cool right now it's almost like um like codename
is uh shadows is what it does is your agent watches you do something and once it sees you do
it it can do it so the same type of thing it's like well what could you do with that it's like
i mean if i showed it how to you know um whatever by, by ETH. Now, once it sees the path, it can repeat it.
If I showed it how to solve a puzzle, like, so it's hard because we're almost creating, like, this is a hammer.
This is a drill.
And it's like, what can I do with it?
It's like, well, you can kind of do a lot with it.
It depends on what your goals are.
Does that make sense?
Or is there any way I can double click on that for you?
No, that makes complete sense.
I just had a quick follow-up question.
I'm sorry.
Player one tag, I know you had your hand up.
I'll be brief.
I kind of wanted to ask regarding, you said,
so the agent evolves with you.
So that means is learning alongside with you
and whatever you do in this kind of interface playground.
How does the learning happen underneath?
So there's multiple layers of learning.
One of them is as you collect more data and you build more agents, your agent grows.
There's a tool out that in general people are talking about called an MCP.
We've just been calling them agent tools to make it simple for people.
Every single day, new tools are being made available, right? So like last night I was just checking out this brand new, like one that takes two images and animates the in-between so that now an agent can actually like make full animations, right?
So like all of these tools as they come online, you will be able to access because it's a standard, right?
Kind of like as a new website comes online, you get that.
Kind of like as a new website comes online, you get that.
And then additionally, as new models come out, so new models come out on a site called Hugging Face all the time.
And as those get integrated in, you'll be able to run the ones that are small enough to run on your machine there.
And then you can go out to the network.
So, you know, Venice is the default.
So Venice.ai.
Yeah, we explain what Venice is. Because let's do a plug for Venice and that team, because that team's amazing.
Yeah, so Venice is an LL.
They run infrastructure.
So you can think about it like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.
And they specifically provide inference on big GPU systems.
specifically provide inference on big GPU systems.
And the way they do that is by, if you hold and stake Venice,
you get access to a certain percentage of inference.
And so we've been buying and holding Venice so that there's always a free tier
for people to be able to use and share.
And so as these pieces, because we're building in the Web3 way,
everything's composable and interoperable.
And we've done that on purpose so that this whole system can evolve both from what you do personally on your machine, but also what the broader ecosystem is doing.
Does that make sense?
That makes complete sense.
You just made me more excited about this.
Thank you so much.
Well, and Alchemist, and the most important thing is all that data is staying like for me the way that i have like we you know mike
and i use souls every day and the way that i have it set up is i'm literally storing every all my
data to my device so so the cool thing about that at least for me like the coolest thing about this
is all the stuff you're doing with your agent it's's staying with you. You're not training somebody else's model. Oh, dude, we got Johnny Clem here. So if you haven't met Johnny yet, Johnny and I have
been friends since college. We've had a bunch of businesses together. He's our CTO. So he can be
here to answer some more kind of in-depth questions as well. But Alchemist, dude, I just followed you.
If you have any questions, you can always DM me and we'll make sure we get your answers.
Got it. I'll be stepping out now, but I just want to say quickly for everyone.
So this app, from what I've gathered, it gives you the ability to benefit from the exponential growth of AI while not participating or being exploited in digital colonialism.
Let's fucking go.
Yes, that was beautiful.
Let's fucking go.
That was great.
Y'all have a great day, right? let's fucking go that was beautiful and it's also on top of open source which is also huge
because every time the open source
tools get updated
yours is automatically updating
and you don't need to know how to do that stuff too
super well said Alchemist
that was fire
who's paying you to be here Alchemist
who's paying you to be here
it was great I love that that was actually beautifully stated, man. Good job.
It was really good. I think Dogmata was here first. Dogmata, let's go.
Hey, listen. So I'm here. I'm trying to mint. I'm on the, well, I cancel all my patients. I'm a
psychotherapist
by trade but they'll be all right i think um but you know the thing is i'm on i'm on the google
machine here right and the things that where's the button it's asking me like for this all right
it's asking me what the fuck it has been how many times i had sex last week and if i have any stds
i'm not sure if i'm admitting the right thing or not.
No, that's it. That's the right one.
Fuck is it? This is fantastic. I'm glad.
Wait, wait, wait. You're admitting the first thing or the second thing?
No, the other one. I'm trying to get
that one. The other one.
The golden ticket.
Now you guys are doing a fantastic job.
Just want to say killer job.
I got to run out to a fundraiser and help them decorate the shit.
So I can't hang out.
I've been hanging out all fucking night.
I've talked about this before.
I grew up with the fucking jerky boys and you,
you naturally have the Frank Rizzo shit down.
I can't fucking handle it.
Like every time I hear it, I'm hearing everybody here like, open your ears, jackass.
It's fucking great.
Yeah, I'm good.
Well, you know what?
I got some plans.
I'm going to need you guys' help because I don't know how to do all this.
But now I got some agents.
My mom's got an agent.
My 75-year-old mom's got an agent.
My 86-year-old or 87-year-old dad's got an agent My 86 year old or 87 year old Dad's got an agent
Yeah and he was
He told me one thing
I was trying to explain to him what exactly it was
And he said
Oh so it's like secret clearance when I was in the army
You know you're either the one
Giving secret clearance or you're the one
Getting secret clearance he goes
It sounds like I'm the one that's given secret clearance
And I want one of those fucking things And And I was like, he gets it at 87 years old. Cause he's yelling into Google
like about politics and shit. And I'm like, I got to give him something that talks back to him.
Yeah, dude. I love that. And also just keep in mind too, like Mike's working on a curriculum
as well. So he's going to be teaching classes on like how to teach it. And so they'll just be like
weekly, like zoom classes and anybody can come. And, um, yeah, we're going to be teaching classes on like how to build an agent. And so they'll just be like weekly like Zoom classes and anybody can come.
And yeah, we're going to also teach you how to build your agents.
I don't know.
Is there anything you'd want to say?
Well, I don't know that anybody's going to be able to come.
I think it's going to be a, you know, obviously you need a think agent.
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
And I definitely want Dogmata there because we're going to be doing phone calls at the end.
I'll be there.
I'll be there. You guys are awesome.
Really good lines I got to try again.
Yeah, exactly. All right. Congrats
to everybody. I see Dave
with Taco down here and shit.
You guys have a
great day. Awesome. Can you guys hear me?
Good luck with the
fundraiser. Yeah, thanks,
man. I hope you get some fucking money.
It's a fundraiser for me because you're taking all my E's. Yeah, thanks, man. I hope you get some fucking money. It's a fundraiser for me because
you're taking all my E's. Yeah, yeah,
All right.
Hello. Yes.
I'm calling for some security. I'm very
I've got a question.
It's my shadow.
Oh, sorry.
It's my shadow.
What's your question?
Yes, this is John speaking.
Awesome work, guys.
I'm really loving this project.
But my question is, in terms of data security and everything, and like, I mean, everything
that we'll be able to do, we'll will be on chain right so that means if you share things with
your agents like medical records etc everything is on the blockchain and as
long as you have your your agent and your private keys and everything you're
safe but is there a way to delete it uh at some point um if you choose to do so or does it
stay on the blockchain forever well there is no yes that's a great yeah no that's a great question
i appreciate that johnny do you want to answer that because the blockchain would just be an
option so johnny yeah yeah yeah totally so um yeah it's probably a good thing to differentiate. So the stuff that exists on chain with your agent is your agent's, you know, kind of what makes it its own personality, its kind of core memories and all the interactions and transactions that it's done.
So it can kind of build its own kind of routes around the agentic web, right?
Like I go through these, these you know three agents to
accomplish this task kind of thing so like it's it's kind of memory over time your personal
private data like your medical record something like that that won't be something that your agent
can directly look at unless you explicitly give it permissions to but it'll be able to, you know, sign and effectively, like, validate that data without having to leak it.
So that it's, you know, maybe not the clearest answer right now.
But part is just because we don't have any, you know, for example, there are no hospitals that are or hospital systems that have opened themselves up to an agent doing things with your medical record through their
system yet that's on the horizon so we're just building for maximum
flexibility as standards emerge
awesome John is there anything else we can help on that side because that's a
great question I mean so yeah I don't want that information personally on the blockchain, so I'm just custodying that information myself.
To be honest, I'm not that satisfied with the answer because if I do share like a PDF file with sensitive information with my agent, then the agent reads it and processes it and understands it and does something with it, I guess.
Correct. Yeah, that all happens on your device.
And then your agent is basically going to have to ask you permission before it ever sends anything that could be personally identifiable to you outside of your local machine.
Yeah, we're not putting that on the blockchain.
That's happening on your device.
Okay, so is there a way for the agent to know which information is sensitive and which is not?
Well, by default, the agent is not typing any of your data off of your device.
So that will be kind of an opt-in experience.
experience. So if people want to have, you know, like the trend that we've seen so far is open
So if people want to have, you know, like the trend that we've seen so far
source trailing about three to six months behind closed source in AI. So if you're in a position
where you need the most bleeding edge intelligence in a model, you're not going to be able to run
that on a local machine. You're going to have to pipe it off, you know, to Anthropic, OpenAI,
something like that. So in that scenario, the part of your agent that determines when it's time to send data
off your machine is still running locally.
And then that's the opportunity we have to be like, are you sure you want to send this
Okay, got it.
Maybe one last question.
I know that there are other people who have questions as well.
I've seen in one of your demo that there is the possibility to use different LLMs like
OpenAI and Anthropic and perhaps Google Gemini, etc. I guess that you're probably using the API,
so you're sending data via the API. I guess that no data ends up with those LLMs, right, with those large language models,
even though the agent is making use of them for communication or whatsoever.
Yeah. So, I mean, that's going to come down to kind of user choice. And it's, you know,
you could think of that as kind of more of like a experienced or power user kind of setting.
We would recommend for anybody even halfway concerned
about privacy, do everything either local
or through someone like Venice who has a stated mission
to be privacy focused and not retain your data.
But if you choose to use our platform
and you want to use Gemini, you can do that.
We can't guarantee that they won't collect data sent through those API calls.
So that's kind of the push and pull.
What we're trying to do there, John, is we're not trying to dictate how you use your intelligence.
So some people don't even care about privacy.
They're just tired of switching between ChatGPT and Claude and Manus.
And so the nice thing is, if you want, you can just put in your API keys and use those inside of Solz.
I don't recommend doing that
if you care about privacy.
We just didn't want to,
like, dictate what you can
and can't do with the platform.
Thanks, guys.
Appreciate the questions, John.
I think Ben was next.
Ben, how can we help hey um can you hear
me okay sure good cool sorry my headphones on now um is there anything that would like prohibit
an agent so if someone today bought two three five ten twelve, like good for them. But is there a reason why you might want to have
multiple agents other than you've got multiple people in the household or like you've got,
I don't know, like you want one for personal, one for work? Like,
let me, oh my God, I just tried to say three things and said none.
tried to say three things and said none. Is there anything that would prohibit a single agent
doing all of the things that you have available to Solz currently and might have available in the
future? Well, I would say that being part of the first edition is always going to be a good place
to be. And as more things get added, like for instance,
agent name service is like a URL that we own, right?
So like there is a lot of advantage at the beginning of a growing network
that's going to have all these applications and tools and app tokens
and partner tokens on top of it.
There's probably going to end up being, you know,
quite a few times where that comes into
play yeah there's there's like external benefits but the cool thing about it ben is like if you
have one agent you're good dude right like i i have an agent for there's six people my wife and
i have four kids like i have an agent for i got my wife kaden agent i got my kids agents so like
i i'm doing that but because i want them all to own their own intelligence all that kind of stuff
but there's no real it's not like you need to go FOMO into 10 of these.
If you don't – you would only do that if you're like you care about the tokens and you care about staking and you care about Think Tank, then yes.
If you're just like, hey, man, I just want to get the base functionality, it's like you're good.
That was exactly the point. Like if it's about just using the agent. No, no, no. You're good.
What it's intended. One is absolutely enough to be able to do everything you'll ever need to do.
That's right. Because you can have personas. Right. And so like I can have a persona and use like let's say I have my cool cat is my persona I use for like marketing stuff.
And then I use, you know, my ape as my persona for doing whatever my financial stuff so like you
can switch between almost these characters so that it feels like you have like a very specific
perspective for whatever you're working on right um I don't know John is there anything you'd want
to say on that uh sorry I was gone for just a few minutes. Oh, sorry, sorry. I meant John Clam, our CTO.
Oh, sorry.
I think we might have lost him.
But that's the high level, Ben.
It's like, you're good.
Yeah, nice one.
Thank you so much.
Who's next?
I guess, Futureverse fan, you want to go?
And then we'll go to Bullitt.
Yes. Can you hear me? And then we'll, we'll go to bullet.
Can you hear me?
it's no question.
I just want to say thanks to Jesse,
to Mike and Nick,
who you met a little ways back.
help me get on board.
I got my five.
one for the company. I'm in vegas right now uh overlooking the strip i'm out in summerland so uh i got one one for the business one for each kid and one for my wife and
one for myself so right right there with you dude appreciate the support that's awesome i just follow
if you have any if anything comes up, just DM me.
Hey, I will.
And I cannot wait to meet you guys at a meetup, man.
Just so stoked on this whole entire thing.
It's taken over my life for the last six months.
Let's watch it.
Yeah, man.
IRL is the best.
And so we have some IRL subs coming up with other partners.
We're really excited about announcing.
And the cool thing is if you're a holder,
we'll always make sure that our holders get in first to any events.
Awesome. Great job, guys. Thank you so much.
Cool. Thank you. Have a great day.
All right. I have a bad memory. Was it Bildo next?
Third time's a charm. Can you guys hear me this time?
Yes, we got you. We got you.
Awesome. Awesome, man. What an exciting day.
You know, it's been a while since I've minted and everything.
Apparently, I'm rusty because I got 226.
So, it was not quick.
Shout out to Presley down there.
She got number 12.
So, apparently, she was a lot quicker than myself.
But, again, I just want to thank you guys.
She ended up saying I was watching your stream yesterday,
and that's what sold me on minting.
So I appreciate you guys making time to come on stream.
I'm really excited for it.
Leading into souls, just want to make sure all the potential,
well, the token allocation that you're getting,
plus the potential 10,000, That's all tied to the actual.
It's all tied to that.
It's all tied to the NFT you have, Bill.
So like if you can get some,
if you can get your friend to switch spots with you
to number 12, you know what I mean?
So it's all tied to that.
But keep in mind, like 10% is a pretty good,
you know, you have a pretty good shot at getting the extra 10,000.
I also want to make sure this is super clear for everybody.
So if you minted your agent, let's say you got whatever, 4,000 THINK tokens with it.
As soon as TGE goes live, those are your tokens.
Do whatever you want.
If you win the 10,000 extra, those are locked for the next three months.
But they're also going to be getting staked for the next three months.
So you'll also be getting rewards on top of that.
I think it probably is self-explanatory why we did that because if we're going to be rewarding all these big buckets of think we wanted to kind of protect the floor
but just know that if you win that it'll be staked you'll be able to see rewards being earned
um you just they just won't unlock for three months and just and in the future as like you
know i think you kind of mentioned think tank being one of the major things or advantages of having one of these. So if we did have multiples and people do start to learn
and realize that maybe Think Tank is something they do want to participate in,
all they would need, obviously the tokens, if it's after June, you know, would go to the original
mentor. But if you wanted to have access for somebody to come on board,
would you be able to sell that?
And then would they get access, even though they didn't mint it?
I think he's the first person that's kind of understood that.
Some people lost me lost tonight.
How many have minted, Mike?
Okay, so 542.
Wherever we land, it's not going to be some crazy number, right?
And if you look at the kind of partners we already have,
imagine the partners we're going to have in the next six months to a year.
And if you want access to think tank,
it's only going to be going to that small group of people.
I'll give you a really good example.
So that's your ticket, right?
So that's another reason why if somebody's like, why would I buy multiple?
It's like, well, because if the think tank really hits,
people are probably going to want access to it.
And there's only going to be, you know, I mean, right now, like a little over 500 of these.
So it's I think that that that's, you know, do what you want with that information.
Yeah. So we've got you store our partner list.
If those partners, for example, have a allocation of think and want to get the maximum amount of rewards, they would have to own
one of these agents.
So as that ecosystem grows and people start to realize that, I think there will definitely
be interest and demand on these first editions.
We're going to get a post-op maybe in the next hour or so with some of our investors.
And there's a small little company called Coinbase that's going
to have Think Tokens and I know that they stake a lot of their investments and so there's
a good chance you know there'll be some intern or someone there that's going to join the
dots and be like oh we need to go get one of these you know portfolio managers we need
to go get one of these assets so we can stake and get the max rewards.
So from the investment group,
there's gonna be a bunch of people,
there's gonna be conversions from ASTO,
so there's ASTO holders that are gonna again,
realize that, oh, to get the maximum rewards from Think,
I'm gonna need a first edition agent.
So the idea of rewarding our initial supporters,
which is what this cohort is.
These are the first people that are supporting us on this leg of the journey.
We want to make sure that there's ongoing value, and we believe the think tank is a way to do that in an everybody wins solution.
Hopefully that highlighted and covered that.
Yeah, we're excited about think tank, so that's the way I was kind of thinking about it,
of maybe just holding one for the future.
If that really does, you know, kind of pop off the way I expect it to,
that would in fact be able to be a way to get more people access
into the Think Tank further down the line, you know,
maybe end of the year, next year, whenever.
Well, I mean, this summer, so like we already have like a household name
who wants to do a token swap and those tokens from that organization
is going to be in the think tank, right?
And so like, yeah.
So, yeah, do with that information, whatever you want.
Appreciate it.
I can hop down if you
guys need more space no pleasure chatting with you everything think over the past few weeks
was awesome meeting you in denver uh really excited for this whole thing so congrats on
a successful launch dude we appreciate you appreciate all the support it's awesome
uh i think it's bulla and then taco oh i think dave's coming up too uh thanks jesse but actually taco and future
what's his name future the guy with the one of the future verse fan are both ahead of me
oh no future first fan win so i think it's taco then awesome i appreciate that taco
what's your what's your living oh man um max max feeling 2021 positive vibes here,
even while streaming minted number one through five.
Heck, yeah.
Direct line.
Are you parked out the front of Magic Eden's office?
You cheated.
You cheated.
I am even on hotel Wi-Fi.
While video
streaming.
Taco Tuesday.
I'm on hotel Wi-Fi and I
didn't get that taco. Damn it.
And then second batch
was like 380
through 384. So like literally
within two minutes,
huge shout out to everyone that got it.
I really would like to talk to whoever has agent number 317.
Please reach out to me.
But we have,
we're here in Austin.
I'm here in Austin,
have more builder week. I'm going in Austin, have more Builder Week.
I'm going to be actually talking with Coinbase dev Lincoln later tonight,
who is all about the agents from Coinbase.
And, you know, who knows what's going to happen out of that conversation.
So let's freaking go.
Hey, Taco, will you plug the event with Morpheus?
Hey, Taco, will you plug the event with Morpheus?
Because I was down there with the Morpheus crew last week, and nobody supported us more
than Morpheus.
So why don't you give a shout out to what's happening this week in Austin?
So huge shout out to Morpheus.
For those that don't know what Morpheus is, launched about a year and a half, just over
year and a half just over a year ago um and what it is is basically decentralized ownership compute
a year ago.
um but one of the things that they have within it is subnets and subnet uh rewards for those
that stake eath they earn more and then people who have more can stake it towards subnets for builders
uh different agents, different protocols.
Things that have come out of that is like a live D&D Dungeon and Dragons version of a Twitter agent played live on Twitter.
Only Cat's Fight Club, Lumarin, a handful of other subnets.
You know, I even have a subnet out there um where you can take your more
token and stake it so that basically software is paying for hardware and services which is
pretty freaking awesome uh venice even has a huge platform but what it is is basically just builders
uh and everyone in a decentralized ai, open source, decentralized, sovereign AI space coming together.
The most legit builders.
It's crazy.
Everyone from like David Johnston to, you know, Luke Stokes, Scott, Bresenberg, you know, and, you know, one of my one of my really good Jeff McDonald, you know, talk about old school guys, you know.
But then but what's really cool is like people that are fresh into this that just got into this a year ago and what they've built because we're all building together, learning a question that i saw the other day was like missing the
groups of like teaching and this is this is that like what are you building today oh how did you
do that well let me show you you know yeah uh let's it's the most generous community too it's
crazy like um i can't say enough good things about david and scott and the crew over there and so
yeah um i think zach's to be at that event too.
So shout out to Zach.
I think he's going to be there.
Yeah, Zach from our team is going to get on stage and share.
Is Zach talking?
Yeah, he's going to share some of the design behind Souls and kind of give all the developers a first look there.
That's awesome.
I'd love to see it.
Appreciate you talking about.
It's a great time.
But someone had said that no one had put medical stuff yet with AI and on chain.
I wanted to point out a protocol that I know that's done that, SolveCare.
SolveCare?
Oh, perfect.
SolveCare.
Not SolveCare.
SolveCare.
I was like, no way.
Yeah, SolveCare.
They've been doing some really cool stuff, been around for a few years.
They have New Mexico and Arizona's healthcare systems on-chain.
So they're doing some cool stuff.
But shout out to everyone and all the builders.
And thanks to Jesse, Mikey, and Felix for answering all my stupid questions late at night.
Anytime, my friends.
It's technically still night when I answer them,
but I'm getting awake, not when you're going to sleep.
It's awesome times.
Fucking go.
I learned something.
It's about time.
Do you know that the word animation means to put a soul in it?
Literally? You told me that yesterday. I love it. I did not know that the word animation means to put a soul in it? Literally?
You told me that yesterday.
I love it.
I did not know that.
Yeah, yeah.
So, you know, as we're doing these soul things, like, that's what's going on.
Dude, you know what we should talk about?
Just because I saw Nana in the audience is, like, let's talk about some of the announcements
we made last week.
Yeah, let's talk about Other Page.
Dude, Other Page crew is awesome.
Right? And, well, first, let me go in order because we got henry so we announced oni force working with
oni force they have some really cool story initiatives kind of to the point of like the
stuff that brian's working on as well with the ai studio but um henry oni force i've been a
member of the community for a long time um friends with henry irl and he was telling me about all the
cool stuff they're doing with ai and it just made a lot of sense for us to partner on that stuff so
we had oni for us and then we had me bits which i was so fucking stoked on because me bits are kind
of the first the perfect first character because they don't have a mouth right so like when it
comes to like integrating them with like what we're doing, it was like, hey, talk about, I mean, Larva Labs, how do you do better than, you know, me bits.
And so having them be a partner and one of the coolest thing the team did
is they were like, hey, we want to make sure that everybody can use a me bit. So I have my own me bit
that I'm going to bring to it. But even if you don't, they're giving us a whole like, a group of
me bits that even if you don't own a me bit, can pick you the me bit you want to use for your agent so I just thought it was super
generous awesome team stoked to be working with them and then other page
right so okay so actually let me set this shit up a little bit just for the
folks the new folks at home okay there's three main things about the
Souls platform right and the first one is you own your data that's the main
thing that like if you only get one thing, get that.
You need to hold your data.
It evolves every day because we're an index of indexes.
Every time, well, like for instance,
like the Morpheus stuff,
they're launching this really cool thing called Super Agents
that will immediately plug into what we're doing.
MCPs, if you see all the cool stuff
happening in decentralized AI and you go like,
how do I build those one-off and connect them together?
We've done that for you.
So every day the platform gets smarter. And then the last one,
which is the last one we're going to be implementing, just so you understand also
like almost our priority list, you own it, it gets smarter every day. And the last one is it's
personal, which means you get to kind of skin your version of Jarvis however you want. You know,
if Nana wants to use his, you know, his ape and Bull wants to use his mutant and whatever,
you want to use your cool cat. So what we've been trying to do is make have relationships behind
the scenes so that nobody's really like left out of that but it's really hard
because you have to find who's got the infrastructure to serve up all these
different you know characters and guess what like other pages so who wants to
talk about other page I do all right go Okay, go for it. Fucking go for it.
Because, like, you know, we were building an agent to be an intelligent non-player character to basically set up missions.
And, you know, as we're starting to actually build in the metaverse, we're like, oh, there's no front door to the metaverse.
Nobody's keeping score.
There's no leaderboards.
Nobody's keeping track of where the quests are.
Nobody's thinking about the links between multiple metaverses. actually they are other page was the whole time they were actually creating the front door to any
metaverse experience and so you know we've got the future verse ready verse
coming online right now so yeah the party bears and the fluffs are and I got
that question for people people are like what about party present fluffs and like
yeah of course I took it for granted we I was like, we got to do a post.
Of course, your Futureverse assets are coming over.
I got my fluff.
I'm ready to go.
You got your party bear.
I kind of fucking think it's perfect that you got a party bear.
Because you got to be.
You know what I mean.
It's kind of fucking perfect.
But anyway, so of course, those are going to, they're first class citizens.
They're coming in first.
Our closest relationship is with future verse
but now you get to bring in so like I
Mean, you know apes. I mean, I don't even the list is pretty good
Yes, wizards. So dude, I got I got three wizards and if you haven't seen the 3d files that like bears taking the wizard team has made
They're fucking awesome. And so you're gonna be able to bring your wizards in as well um yeah moonbirds there we go moonbirds got to come in yeah i mean
coders yep it's there's around i think across all of it we've got around 45 different ecosystems
um but yeah me bits are gonna be like um i think me this is the perfect
character we passed on we're gonna have 10 of those default ones which 10 all right awesome
yeah 10 an alien like one from each of the no shit really that people will be able to uh play
with it's like a million dollar asset yeah all the all the future versus assets coming in uh and
then the other one is that you'll be able to eventually generate your own.
So we talk about Ultra State Machine.
That's actually the coolest thing about that is that's really plug and play.
Hopefully, people are starting to pay attention.
And a lot of future versus people only met us in January.
And they're probably like, what the fuck are these guys doing?
But hopefully, now you're starting to see it click together with souls.
Where all of a sudden, it's like, we don't ever want to price people out of this stuff, right?
So if you don't have like an NFT or anything like that, Ultra State Machine is crazy.
If you haven't had a chance to look at it, you know, go on Twitter and just type in Ultra State Machine and you're going to see all these creators.
And it's like, it's literally drag and drop an image. So you drag in gina um who's not on screen right now uh was
like i want my agent to be my dog and it's like great so just drag in a photo of your dog and
not only does it make it a 3d asset it also makes it a 3d game ready asset which is huge because we
haven't even started talking about like how our agents will be able to go into the metaverse at
some point and it can be minted now i just saw somebody say i haven't tried it yet but i just
saw somebody say it's a lot sick. Anything I missed on Ultra State Machine?
I mean, you made Disco Mikey or whatever on it.
Disco Mikey, there you go.
He doesn't advertise.
We're talking partnerships.
I saw the post we put.
The other big one in the last week was Alchemy.
Will you explain Alchemy?
Because Lenny, our head of intelligence, I was like, I don't know Alchemy.
And she's like, well, you fucking should.
And she pretty much schooled me on how important Alchemy is and why that's such a big announcement. But, like, who wants't know Alchemy, and she's like, well, you fucking should. And she pretty much schooled me on how important Alchemy is and why that's such a big announcement.
But like, who wants to explain Alchemy?
I wish Lenny was here. She's on vacation.
They're basically the back end for Web3.
So all the marketplaces use them.
Robinhood uses them for their crypto infrastructure.
USDC, like Circle, uses them.
Like the list is the who's who's list.
Their API stack is very deep.
It's the deepest.
I don't think it's even debated.
They have over 50,000 devs, unique devs in their ecosystem using their API as a tooling.
They want to move into the agentic web.
So they approached us.
It wasn't the other way around.
They approached us and wanted to partner with us,
not just as a customer-client relationship,
but as a, hey, we'll give you all this stuff
at a very heavily discounted price
if you help us with our AI initiative
and bring us into the agentic future.
That's great.
So we're going to end up,
you talk about the Think protocol.
That's the overall protocol.
You want people building interesting things under that umbrella.
We're going to have a direct line into 50,000 devs in the Web3 space that are, at the very least, I suspect a lot of them are AI curious.
Because they're on the bleeding edge of technology organically by being in Web3.
So I suspect a lot of them are AI curious, we're gonna you know plug them straight into the stuff
that we're working on so that that like i couldn't even begin to tell you where that could lead
because it's really limited by imagination like where we sit right now so that's gonna be uh
that's gonna be exciting um we haven't really pushed it or advertised it in a big way because it's hard
to like even put it in a box it's just you know felix like i think people need they need to really
understand like when they hear alchemy it just kind of goes in one ear and out the other like
alchemy literally helps build the infrastructure for just listen i'll rattle you off let him have
it dave curve finance ave synthetics openc rareable zora metamask rainbow phantom wallet trust wallet
axe affinity sandbox animoka snapshot dune zirion nansen and the list goes on and on like these guys
are it so they're now coming and saying hmm think standard think protocol like yeah like take us
along and now it's like they're plugged into all this other shit like come on man
i love that thank you dave i just saw a post from alchemy yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna uh
i'm gonna make sure i uh i do it justice um i think they just replied to one of our tweets
yep gonna go mint this let's go let's goemy's minting one of our agents, or probably has minted.
That was 20 minutes ago.
And it's important, too.
Like, I really think understanding, you know, the 10%, because if you're going out like,
oh, I didn't mint early, right?
I'm going to have less Think Tokens.
But the fact that you have a 10% chance at the 10,000, right?
Like, we wanted to make sure as many people can hit as possible.
So that's big, too.
Dave, you're great at this shit.
What else did we not talk about?
Or should we double click on?
You want me to go through my list, bro?
Yeah, let's do it.
Go through the list.
I mean, I literally put out that tweet this morning.
I was like, yo, I dare you to ask me, like, why the fuck?
Like, why am I minting these agents?
I'm going to pull it up for you right now.
So everyone can genuinely, like, understand, like, why I am minting and why you Hold on. I'm going to pull it up for you right now so everyone can genuinely understand why I am
minting and why you should probably be doing the same thing in terms of why are you minting
this shit?
You ready?
I'm Jimmy Fallon.
One, own your own fucking intelligence.
Don't give it to Meta.
Don't give it to Google.
You own it.
Two, get paid from your own data.
Finally, we get paid from our data.
Me, me, me.
Building an AI agent was on my bucket list for a long time.
So, like, a real one.
Think tokens?
Yeah, I'll take it.
It's a nice little sprinkle.
Emission rewards?
Even better.
Love passive income.
And then, agent side hustle.
Imagine how the agent goes out and starts fucking working the corners for me
yeah again bringing me back some things for me come on i need a soul also that's obviously the
next one then the ideas in my brain move faster than my pockets obviously that's another reason
why i need this shit uh here's the kicker i invest in this stuff because of human beings and who the people are also.
So, like, look at the fucking teams.
I've spent countless hours with these psychos up here, right?
But that's what they are.
They're psychos about their craft.
And, like, when you spend enough time with people and you understand who they are, that's the kind of shit that I'm comfortable putting my money behind.
So let's fucking go, boys.
Dude, that means a lot to me, Dave.
Thank you so much.
That's fucking rad. If you don't follow dave you definitely should his spaces are
uh undefeated all right who plus plus just very quickly plus dave is also looking for the ultimate
co-host and you know that he's not he's not satisfied with any human being he's just like
he's just like i'm just gonna build a co-host and then
we can run this shit that's it i know dave i know how it works hey don't give the sauce away ben
chill out bro relax let's go love to see it bulla how can we help you my friend oh good morning
jesse i just came up to uh say hello and congratulations to you all. I'm really, really grateful for the way you guys are approaching this.
One of the things I'm really thankful about and glad to be on board,
and hopefully I can help in some way,
is having been a teacher for a really long time
and the fact that you guys are focusing on education.
I've seen firsthand, you know,
I've taught in some of the best international schools in the world, and I've also taught in some really shitty schools.
And I know firsthand how much further kids can get when they're learning with access to technology.
So super, super pumped for the for whatever this this the future brings.
So just wanted to come up and say thank you for, the way you guys are doing this, you know,
so many projects are more extractive than they are additive.
You guys are adding something to really for the sake of us all.
So much appreciated.
Dude, I appreciate you, Bola. Like the education thing's a big deal. Mike,
I mean, this is like your shit.
When Mike and I have been friends for a long time.
And one of the first things he told me is like,
if you got real money, what would you do?
And he's like, I'm building schools.
So like he's been thinking about this shit for a long time.
Yeah, that was like over 15 years ago at this point in time.
We've gotten to help a lot of schools.
But Vula, I want to say thank you to you.
You've shown up.
You know, I don't think you and I have ever hung out IRL at all,
but like you've shown up every day and you're like there in the comments
and like you've been such a support this whole time. So shout out to you and shout out to what you're doing um and
helping so many kids and and also in thinking how can I use this new knowledge that I have to help
others and like that's absolutely what we're doing here is that like I remember calling Jesse
about a year ago and just being like I don't know how this how we're gonna go from like GPU uh like
from getting GPUs going to uh to helping kids own their intelligence.
But I totally see a day here where every kid, as they learn, they're building their agent's knowledge repo.
And so as they learn real things, they always have their sidekick who's helping them to bring their knowledge forward.
And I just imagine how great it would be as I was getting my math degree, as I was learning about how AI worked, all of these things. If that whole time
I had, uh, I was getting, um, I was getting that in my knowledge repo and now me and my agent are
growing together. Like I can't wait to see a whole bunch of kids be able to use these open standards
so that they can own that data and have control of it their whole lives.
Dude, bullet, this is our hardest. This, the boss fight, dude, with education. So we've already
started talking to some people on that side. Almost nobody, like they all want to own the
kids' data, right? So that's like the biggest hurdle we're up against right now is we're like,
no, the kids need to custody their own data. And they're like, no, we don't like that idea.
And so luckily we have some friends um
out of stand together in dc on the education front that um understand the vision and i'm like
actively helping me think through how to do this but just know that that's kind of the boss fight
that's coming for education is like um they want to custody the kids data and so we're trying to
help them understand that uh they shouldn't do that you
know and so i think that education is going to be a boss fight you know it's almost like it's like
as soon as you beat this boss you move on to the next one and when it comes to education i think
that's going to be the big one is helping first helping i think we got to go directly to parents
and help them understand that like no this is your kid's data you need they need to custody it
because right now um I guess big education.
And we're talking about like, dude, the school I was at is like for, you know, like teenagers, right?
And the fact that they're like, no, we want to custody this data.
I'm like, okay, well, this is going to be the boss fight.
But we're going to keep going, Bola.
And that's why it's so important to open source this shit and to give it away for free.
Because I think that's the only way that we can really compete with the big guys is to just cut their fucking legs off and you know
what I mean I don't yeah I mean every market goes through that that process and like we're
essentially saying like hey these things can be treated like commodities because we can make a
standard right like once you can sell coffee beans and it's just like oh this is the price per pound
it's a it's a commodity we can make intelligence a commodity by having the valuable thing be the network of our agents.
And that network builds a network of trust that also is a network that that is distribution for companies.
And so when they see, hey, look, there's 500 and something AI enthusiasts that are in this enough that they're, like, minting on day one already.
Like, that's when people are like, oh, that's who I want to build a new service for, right?
And that's how this thing grows.
In the same way that people would look at, oh, this thing Instagram is growing.
I'm going to build my business strategy around selling through Instagram.
Like, that's what's going to happen here is we're going to get so many tools built for us because of how many of us there are.
That's awesome.
Appreciate you, Bulla.
Taco, what you got?
So I wanted to touch on something.
You guys sort of talked on the infrastructure stuff that Alchemy does.
Basically, blockchain 101 for companies companies anything from nodes to block
explorers so like they're like just like gelato so like them wanting to get into the agent standard
people yeah that's a that's a big move because that means that there's a new infrastructure like
just how we talk about mcp being a new standard and A2A being a new standard.
This is how a new standards are made and adopted by all. So that's a pretty cool thing.
My biggest ask is that you guys institute delegate.xyz because I'm going to give away
my secret sauce of what I want to do with one of my
agents. I want to, I'm going to, I'm going to make, you know, a vault wallet and I'm going to
put an agent in there and I want to delegate that agent to a hot wallet. And I'm literally going to
push, push, push that seed and private key out for people for that hot wallet. So no one can
touch the app, the true asset, but they can use the hot wallet that has
the agent delegated to it and basically make that agent out for anyone to use add like a community
of everything and i'll be piping information into that as well but like this is this is one of the
things that you guys have talked about yes there's a lot of people that weren't able to mint today it was an expensive mint yeah
markets down i haven't spent this much much on a mint in a really long time and like i think
that's where some of my fomo is and like my excitement is on it like i went big and heavy
you know on this because i believe in it um and you've you guys have all said this, in like three months time,
you want agents to be like 50 bucks, 20 bucks, free. And that's moving on to the school stuff
for kids. That's how you get contracts. Okay, cool. This doesn't cost $500 per kid.
They might charge that or bill that to the government, but they want
their cut at like $10, you know?
So that's where this is really cool.
That's right.
That's what I want to do with one of my agents, you know?
That bad idea.
Thanks for your support so much, Taco, through this whole thing.
It was so good to get to hang out last week, and Taco and I were sitting in Captain Kirk's
actual shit.
Dude, well, shout out to Manifestest because Manifest also got past the render.
Oh, we should take a minute to talk about that.
Yeah, hell yeah.
What is Manifest Network, Taco?
Give everybody a lowdown.
In short, we are, I hate using the word, but it's an easy word to use, decentralized AWS.
use decentralized AWS. I like to use sovereign instead. Anywhere you use the word AWS, Azure,
I like to use sovereign instead.
Ali, Google Cloud, you can replace with manifest. We run tier three, tier four data centers around
the world. We have 34 data centers, 17 data centers are live supporting our chain and network
right now. And we have, so web 2 or Web 3 projects where they want to
not only own their data, but control it. That's the service we provide. We do a really interesting
piece where we don't necessarily work with cash. We run an index, a permanent capital index fund,
where we do token swaps with up and coming projects or
post-launched projects and we burn them into our index fund and we give them our index fund token
mfx and then they can use mfx as technically their version of google credits um that's the
that's the short and sweet but we do like 30 000 other things like every other person in web 3.
like 30,000 other things, like every other person in Web3.
You know, our founder, you know,
technical founder and team is our all expat ICP pre-launch.
Eric Gravick.
Like he's a wizard.
Mad wizard, you know, which.
His beard's significantly longer than mine.
Yeah, yeah.
It's an aspirational beard.
Yes, 100%.
And so we're out here in Austin right now for more Builder Week.
And then tomorrow afternoon, I drive to Dallas and fly to Istanbul for Solana Crossroads.
And then I fly to Dubai for everything in Dubai around Token.
But we just were in LA.
Like I'll let I'll let Mikey and Jesse talk on that, but render
think agents and manifest just past community vote at like a 98%
community vote of providing both agent standards
and decentralized ownership compute
for the entire render network on the AI side. Let's go.
Not only did me and Mikey get to sit in Captain Kirk's original chair and do little videos,
got to hang out.
I got to talk to Ahmad from what he um you know that yeah uh what he's wanting
to do like what he's doing now yes we talk shit about chat gpt but chat gpt has provided a really
good standard baseline sure and he's getting ai into every kid's hand in like africa at like a
ten dollar cost with a tablet and he a million kids already in Malawi,
I believe, or a million kids already in Malawi have access to AI through what he's doing.
And they want to 10x that this year.
I've got to get souls on those devices.
Well, I mean, like it's open, right?
So Ahmad founded Stable Diffusion.
So if you've ever used like,
like when MidJourney first came out and all these,
like they built the very first generative image tool that was like open source and awesome.
And so he built that and kind of got to the point where he's like, hey, I want to do something bigger.
And so, yeah, yeah, for about like, I don't know, it's only been like a year or something since he left.
He's got a team of some of the best engineers in the world.
And what they're creating is they're creating models for healthcare, government, education, a few other
categories that are they're gonna be fully open-sourced and they're based on
kind of like what you would need for for doing healthcare but he's giving them to
the countries. So Mexico, you know Japan like they would at a national level have
their national sovereign models for healthcare, let's say.
And now that's an open standard that everybody can see the code and it becomes a very democratic process.
Well, Ahmad and I are just talking about, hey, is there a way for us to start partnering now?
And he's like, well, as soon as we launch it, everything's open source.
So he's like, yeah, we're working together already.
And we're DMing on Twitter just like, all right, let's make sure that souls and think
agents are first class citizens in this world.
He's like, they already are because we're building with the same values.
And that's one of the beautiful things about this space is so many of us are building with
the same values.
So the pieces click together.
Fantastic.
I didn't even know about the conversation.
I love that.
And then with render, I think people don't understand what's happening
100 people have no idea because like it's really hard for a non-technical person to look at all the
different people that say they're decentralized ai um and make a qualitative uh uh choice about them
and so what render has actually done is render started out um i think they actually like that
company behind it started out like 20 years ago. And,
and it was started,
I think JJ Abrams is part of it.
Ari Emanuel,
the guy who Ari golden entourage is based off of,
and then Jules,
who's the founder.
And what they,
they basically identified is these new films are going to take so much more
compute capacity than even AWS could,
could have at the time.
And so they made it really easy to be able to render inside of the They're going to take so much more compute capacity than even AWS could have at the time.
And so they made it really easy to be able to render inside of the software that professional video people use.
And so they've just been quietly making that the best product in the world for them. It costs one-tenth the amount of working with Amazon.
And so everybody uses it. It's the default.
And so that is actually the first truly decentralized infrastructure play that has revenue coming in from other places.
And they're just sitting there building in quiet.
And this last week, a really big thing happened where they said to the community, like, hey, we've been experts at this.
We see that generative AI is a huge growing field that's actually much bigger than where we were starting.
much bigger than where we were starting.
They just passed a proposal that said,
hey, we're going to add some new features so that we can use
something like these really high-level private compute clusters that Manifest has,
connected to ThinkAgents because in order to actually control all these GPUs
and make sure that the people aren't cheating,
you need to have something like Manifest and you need to have something like the Think Network.
And so now we're in a spot where the Think Network
is able to utilize this massive GPU cluster
that's one 10th the cost of anything else out there
and render, you know, I just,
I see where this is going really quick.
It's gonna be a beautiful thing.
Dude, we should talk about this actually.
Oh, sorry sorry go ahead
oh yeah I was gonna say it was in like for people that don't know like Mikey got to do
like a live demo of everything that we've seen like you guys have seen videos of like he did live demo pieces to show people like this is already in action And literally had like a little, like they, the second stage was like a little movie theater.
And so he had, Mikey was on the big screen is what I like to say.
We were in the place where they actually screened the big movies.
So on the wall.
You were on a studio lot.
We were on a studio lot.
And, and so Mikey killed it was, you know,
everyone had a ton of questions for Mikey. Like how quickly can I use this?
You know, and like the builders of, of Hollywood, like that,
like Jesse was saying, I didn't even know,
like I've known about render for about six years. Yeah.
I didn't even as for a deep end project like this is this is
outstanding you know like i didn't even know like everything built on like blender octane
octane is all on render and everything like that and and this is it is just so cool to sort of see
like yeah and it's one of those partnerships too where like the people
you're working with over there are just great yeah you know so it like it works all the way around
um actually dude i wanted to do this thing because we have to assume there's new people here
so we've been talking about kind of like uh souls which is kind of the you know portal to the
agentic web it's kind of the place where you go and build agents and use agents and all that kind
of stuff we just talk about what is the think standard it's built's kind of the place where you go and build agents and use agents and all that kind of stuff. Will you just talk about what is the ThinkStandard it's built on top of?
Yeah. So when you use the internet, you don't think, oh, there's a standard underneath of this.
But when you type in a URL, you are telling your computer how to interact with the entire internet.
Right? So you're saying this is the address.
And then all of the protocol underneath of it says like, oh, here's CSS.
That's for how it looks. Here's JavaScript. That's for how it animates. Here's HTML.
This is for what the what the content inside of it is. And so we don't think about that stuff.
We just think about the final website you get within the think standard.
There's a whole bunch of things that the Internet doesn't have by itself. Right.
Like when you're going around the Internet, you don't have a name.
You don't have an address, right?
Like, so the Think Agent Standard gives you a name and an address and a wallet.
And it defines also how these agents talk with each other.
So that an agent can say like, hey, can anybody help me with this problem?
And another agent can say, yes, I've got this tool right here.
And then that initiates the second part, which is the agent-to-agent transactions.
So now the agents can actually send each other data and even can say like,
hey, it looks like you don't have an account with us.
Would you like to set one up?
Pass the keys.
You might have a free account.
You might have a paid account.
And all that can happen through the blockchain without the user having to be involved in
entering their credit card info.
So it creates this expandable system where when someone new comes on the block and says,
hey, I've got this great service, it's like, well, cool.
Did you build against the standards?
Well, then you work with think agents and manifest network and all the other tools that
are underneath of it.
And then, so, I mean, we started Independent AI Institute.
Will you talk about what IAI is?
So we started Independent AI Institute about a year ago now.
And the goal was to say, like, hey, if we all work together and we all grow together, we can actually create the biggest network in the world.
Like, we identified that the Ethereum network when it was mining and the Bitcoin network are much bigger than Amazon Web Services, for example.
Bitcoin network are much bigger than Amazon Web Services, for example, because once you
have permissionless innovation happening, now anybody can come in and they can put their
machine online, right?
And so we said, all right, well, in order to do that, we actually need to get the GPUs
to, you know, you need to go from the hardware all the way out to the end user.
So there's a whole bunch of things that happen in between.
And we got nine companies to essentially build the set of tools that would normally take like an Amazon
Web Services to build something that big. But we already had nine companies.
We couldn't connect it all together.
Yeah, because we said like, hey, we're going to transact on your blockchain. We're going to use
GPUs from these three decentralized GPU networks. We're going to build inference engines from these groups of contractors. We're going to have this group run Street Fighter 3 on different machines.
And so we got all those pieces to work. And then we're like, everybody there was like,
wow, we actually don't have to be competitors here where we're not trying to fight for the
same customers. We're actually building a network that's competing against all the closed giants.
And that's where the Independent AI Institute was born.
And kind of between that first nine companies that were on board,
like last May, June, I think we got to 50 by October
where we had a bunch of interoperating and now we're over 70.
And I'm sure once we get back into like,
I've been in a mode lately where I can't be in meetings all day because we've got to actually build and ship
uh but when we get back into like meeting modes with everybody i have the feeling we're gonna
have a lot more in there there's i mean last week i think we had four new members so and that's all
inbound yeah which has also been just really cool to see all right dave because i think we're gonna
start have to start wrapping this up so if you have, Dave, because I think we're going to have to start wrapping this up. So if you have questions, hop up because I think we're going to give it another like 10 minutes because we have a bunch of other stuff we have to do.
Also, we're going to have other spaces later.
So, Dave, what's happening?
Yeah, that's why I didn't have a question.
I just wanted to plant the seed.
I know obviously you guys got a million other things going on, but Friday, I would love to do the space.
Friday, I would love to do the space.
Like I got the approval from the Wagme Hub guys.
So like total like open invite,
like bringing like as many like AI,
independent AI Institute projects as you guys want for Friday.
And let's coordinate in the background, all right?
Send me the time.
I'll reach out and start getting that going.
That's great.
I'm doing a podcast with FFV as well.
Shout out to FFV.
Hey guys, we can hear everything you're saying.
One second.
So I'm doing one with FFV on Friday as well. So like if,
just hit me with the time and I'll make it work, Dave.
You got it.
Appreciate it. Okay. Do we have any other questions? Um, before we go,
just shout out to like Laura cap, tiger, Nana.
We have had so many people, um, support us in this thing. Uh,
can't tell me how it means to us it's fun to see josh in here
josh has been backing us since the very beginning um and i know it's been a long i mean we've been
at this for almost two years now so to finally get here it's definitely uh it's definitely feels good
and excited so again let's end with like uh how about we end with the timeline? So what people can expect. So we had the NFT Mint Today.
Yeah, which is our April deliverable.
We'll call it.
Next month, TGE for ThinkToken.
The following month.
And we're working with some good partners on that.
Yeah, yeah.
You saw a list of partners today that we posted about,
which is more IP-driven and AI infrastructure.
From a pure token perspective, we're working with all the big names.
So looking forward to the TGE next month. Following that is Solz as a platform dropping.
And there'll be some beta testing and people that participate in this Mint. We're going to
be opening up a dedicated Discord and there'll be some you want to talk about
that yeah I think tomorrow once the mint closes we'll open up a token gated
discord for holders they can come in they'll get sneak peeks you're also
gonna you know get a little bit of a you know learn to walk before we run so to
speak leading up to the the more public launch in June. And then the month
after June is the Think Tank. So we'll have standard staking as in getting Think rewards
for the TG and then we'll call them like industry basket rewards or larger ecosystem rewards for
July. And I think if you're publicly sharing
what you're going to do beyond three months
in this fast-moving space,
you're probably setting yourself up for failure.
So we'll just keep it at that
as the commitments we're willing to make.
There's a lot more cooking, though.
And we're going to do a giveaway.
I'm going to get a number out of Felix here,
and I'll post about it.
So if you post that you minted,
we're going to be picking some winners
for that today
too yeah sound good appreciate everyone's support we're ready to get going it's been a great day so
far and uh we'll be back when's the next space felix in a couple hours right we're doing someone
else's face yeah i'm just checking up on that two o'clock so we're going to be back online at two
o'clock for another space.
And yeah, Faded, everybody in the audience, appreciate everyone's support.
Taco, you got one last thing?
You should give out a hashtag for people to use so it's easier for you to find all of that
because I know how much work you guys have on your plate.
Hashtag free think.
No, no, think agents.
You want to do think agents? That's what we're doing. All right, we're going to do think agents. What do your plate. I love that. Ask that free think. No, no, think agents. You want to do think agents?
That's what we're doing.
All right, we're going to do think agents.
What do I know?
I love it.
We already posted it.
All right, we already posted it.
Way to go, Taco.
I'm glad somebody's on top of it.
We need Taco and Dave up here all the fucking time.
All right, everybody.
We appreciate you.
Have a great day.
We will see you in a couple more hours.