In this episode of CDPod, we're joined by Jansen Teng, co-founder of Virtuals Protocol, to break down the emergence of wallet-enabled AI agents, why crypto is the missing piece for real autonomy, and how tokenization creates new ways for people to benefit from agent-driven economies.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:26 - Introducing Jansen Tang from Virtuals Protocol
03:27 - From gaming DAO to Roblox autonomous NPCs
04:01 - Expanding into entertainment and TikTok agents
06:39 - Giving agents agency, goals, and memory
11:01 - Launching Luna as tokenized TikTok influencer
13:54 - Luna’s market cap rise, inspiring other agents
16:00 - Different schools of thought in AI
20:08 - How agents interact with each other
24:00 - Problems faced: information loss
25:05 - How blockchain solves information loss
29:40 - Agent economy stack and ACP’s role
30:39 - x402 enabling agent payments and wallets
32:33 - Combining tools, agents, and x402
32:59 - What agents do on ACP today
35:55 - Information agents like AIXBT
36:41 - Personal finance agents
38:08 - Current adoption: human users and trading wallets
40:07 - Making agents richer via products, services, attention
42:09 - Robotics gaps: data and real‑world testing spaces
44:11 - Closing, ending questions

In S2E4 of CDPod, Yuga and Erik sit down with Tarun Chitra, CEO & co-founder of Gauntlet.They dig into the hardware roots of crypto, how to model DeFi risk, and why demand (not hype) drives the next wave of onchain innovation.Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:34 - Early career: ASICs, HFT & D. E. Shaw
04:10 - $25M ASIC fab escrow front-run
07:42 - HFT & Bitcoin mining parallels
10:05 - AI cycles and getting into crypto
15:00 - Proof-of-stake as a derivative asset
19:01 - How DeFi unbundles exchange functions
22:03 - Modeling DeFi systems & Pendle
27:30 - TradFi credit vs onchain credit
28:40 - Continuous-time trading of credit onchain
35:43 - Demand-driven DeFi innovation cycles
41:51 - Zero-sum staking vs risk transfer
43:20 - Tooling suggestion: Smart order routing for onchain yield
46:20 - Guest recommendation
47:49 - Closing

In S2E3 of the Coinbase Developer Podcast, we spoke with David Hoffman, co-founder of Bankless.They discuss the evolution of crypto media, growing your business in crypto, and the industry’s next big shifts.Hosts:
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Checkout: bankless.comTimestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Guest introduction, David’s background
02:40 - Early on: Learning about Ethereum and finance
04:49 - 2018: Finding work in crypto in, starting a podcast
08:30 - How crypto media has grown
09:23 - What set Bankless apart
11:45 - Advice for growing in crypto media
14:49 - How Bankless scaled, business structure
17:16 - Distribution is important
18:30 - Wearing multiple hats
22:52 - Early emerging trends right now
24:15 - Changing as crypto becomes more institutional
26:09 - Disrupting TradFi culture
27:20 - Where are we in the cycle, supercycle?
30:14 - Reflections and lessons from building Bankless
32:03 - Co-founders and having an ally in crypto
33:29 - Business thesis vs contradicting tension
36:32 - What do developers need? Hint: x402
39:04 - David’s next guest recommendation

CDPod's Yuga Cohler sits down with co-founder of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko, to discuss the origins of Solana, building on SVM, stablecoins coming onchain, x402, and more.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro / Guest welcome
00:35 Coinbase Developer Podcast intro
00:42 CDP multi-chain and Solana support
01:22 Qualcomm background & lessons
08:00 Solana origin & PoH eureka
13:16 Stablecoins, demand & ledgers
21:47 Competing L1s & Solana positioning
24:08 EVM vs SVM and developer selection
27:49 Open participation and network flywheel
28:10 Percolator and AI coding workflow
28:53 AI copilots
36:39 x402, web auth & AI agents
37:07 Eliminating API keys and web2 auth issues
38:59 Blockchain as a new base layer
39:47 Crypto rails simpler than legacy systems
41:36 Closing and wrap-up
44:08 Thanks and closing statements

Erik Reppel is the Head of Engineering for Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) and the author of x402 - the viral onchain payment protocol for humans and AI agents. In this episode, we discuss: the x402 lore and origin story, the future of fully autonomous agents, killing the API key, and more.

0:00 - Cold intro

1:23 - How x402 got on our radar

3:53 - History of the internet and HTTP 101

12:26 - What we need for AI coming online and what we learned from mobile

15:55 - The issue of online payments and what blockchain solves

18:27 - The 402 Status Code

19:19 - What is x402

20:25 - x402 flow walkthrough (server to client)

25:28 - Why x402 champions open standards and multiple payment types

27:33 - x402 demo

29:04 - Where AI fits in and why now, especially for payments and pay-per-crawl

35:27 - Why AGI payments need standardization

36:34 - AI on x402 demo (Payments MCP + x402 Bazaar)

38:34 - Shopping on x402 demo (Content/endpoint discovery)

41:18 - The power of stablecoins for micro- and macro-payments

42:22 - x402 main adoption roadblocks (supply and demand)

44:13 - Payments MCP, Cloudflare and network effects

45:53 - What’s next and x402 V2

46:53 - Where to find more

Luke Youngblood is the founder of Moonwell - an open and decentralized lending and borrowing protocol built on Base, Optimism, Moonbeam, and other networks In this episode, we discuss the depths of DeFi , why the future of the economy will be powered by AI agents and stablecoins, how mutli-chain tokens work, and more.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro & the durability of onchain lending

1:36 - Luke’s Background and time at Coinbase

5:26 - How Moonwell works

7:46 - Moonwell’s unique smart contract and market structure

9:49 - Trustless crosschain governance (diagrammed)

12:26 - Governing a trustless system

14:10 - The role of the “comptroller“ for managing risk

17:09 - Where liquidators fit in

19:00 - Supporting smart contracts across multiple chains + expanding past Polkadot

23:16 - Mint & burn or lock mechanisms for crosschain migration

29:15 - Governing a superchain and the multichain governor

32:03 - Multichain vote collection and proposal processing

36:05 - Diving into relayers

40:11 - Intraecosystem vaults and their role in supply

45:26 - Bullish on AI running on crypto rails and redollarizing the world

49:29 - What CDP should build

51:09 - Outro

About Coinbase Developer Podcast

CDPod is a technical podcast that goes under the hood with the CTOs, engineers, and builders shaping the crypto ecosystem from Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP). Hosted by Yuga Cohler (CDP Eng Lead, ex-Google) and Erik Reppel (CDP Head of Eng, ex-Zora), this show is made for developers, by developers.

We get into the nitty-gritty of how and why guests built their projects — from big-picture architecture down to that one React trick they wish they could stop using. Expect real talk, solid insights, and maybe a little snark.

Guest

Luke Youngblood: https://x.com/LukeYoungblood

Hosts

Yuga Cohler: https://x.com/yugacohler

Erik Reppel: https://x.com/programmer

Producers

Danny Organ: https://x.com/organ_danny

Pia Szabo: https://x.com/0xPia

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Wish building onchain was easy? Start building with Coinbase Developer Platform to easily add wallets, onramps, swaps, onchain data and more to your app in minutes.

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Jeff Ling is Co-founder and CTO of Goldsky - a real-time blockchain data platform that powers hundreds of dapps. In this episode, we discuss how to smooth out the rough edges of blockchain data, streaming tech, how to build a blockchain with actually good data, and more.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro & the Problem of Indexing

2:27 - Jeff and Goldsky’s Background

5:48 - What is a subgraph?

10:00 - Solving parallel processing when you outgrow subgraphs

13:50 - Web3 vs Web2 indexing

18:25 - Upserting for keying in onchain data

22:38 - Multichain support

23:34 - Why EVM chains are easier to index

28:20 - Goldsky’s internal structure and quickly adding new chain support

32:57 - Handling real time data (stream processing & partitions)

36:48 - Batching vs streaming data for efficiency

40:12 - Zeno's Paradox and blockchain data

41:37 - Solving front and back filling

44:15 - Bullish on new apps providing utility and real-time gaming

46:16 - What CDP should build

48:15 - Outro and where to find Goldsky updates

About Coinbase Developer Podcast

CDPod is a technical podcast that goes under the hood with the CTOs, engineers, and builders shaping the crypto ecosystem from Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP). Hosted by Yuga Cohler (CDP Eng Lead, ex-Google) and Erik Reppel (CDP Head of Eng, ex-Zora), this show is made for developers, by developers.

We get into the nitty-gritty of how and why guests built their projects — from big-picture architecture down to that one React trick they wish they could stop using. Expect real talk, solid insights, and maybe a little snark.

Guest

Jeff Ling: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefftyling/

Hosts

Yuga Cohler: https://x.com/yugacohler

Erik Reppel: https://x.com/programmer

Producers

Danny Organ: https://x.com/organ_danny

Pia Szabo: https://x.com/0xPia

Subscribe to our channel here: youtube.com/@CoinbaseDeveloperPlatform?sub_confirmation=1

Wish building onchain was easy? Start building with Coinbase Developer Platform to easily add wallets, onramps, swaps, onchain data and more to your app in minutes.

► Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/coinbasedev

► Follow us on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/coinbasedeveloperplatform/

► Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/CDP

► Our website: https://cdp.coinbase.com

► Our docs: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com

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Michael DeHoog is Principal Engineer of Base - a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly Ethereum L2 built to bring the next billion users onchain. In this episode, we discuss how to boostrap a blockchain, scaling Ethereum, the Base origin story, and more.

Timestamps

0:00 - Intro

1:33 - Michael’s background

3:57 - Base’s origin

7:15 - Externalizing Base Net

9:39 - Proof of Authority

10:34 - Ethereum protocol changes

14:40 - Engineering bottlenecks

17:05 - Borrowing from Web2

21:30 - Replacing EVM with RISC-V

24:39 - Adding passkeys to the EVM

31:01 - Bootstrapping a blockchain

37:30 - Solving interop

40:42 - Being bullish on ZK

42:18 - What CDP should build

43:43 - Outro

About Coinbase Developer Podcast

CDPod is a technical podcast that goes under the hood with the CTOs, engineers, and builders shaping the crypto ecosystem from Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP). Hosted by Yuga Cohler (CDP Eng Lead, ex-Google) and Erik Reppel (CDP Head of Eng, ex-Zora), this show is made for developers, by developers.

We get into the nitty-gritty of how and why guests built their projects — from big-picture architecture down to that one React trick they wish they could stop using. Expect real talk, solid insights, and maybe a little snark.

Guest

Michael DeHoog: https://github.com/mdehoog

Hosts

Yuga Cohler: https://x.com/yugacohler

Erik Reppel: https://x.com/programmer

Producers

Danny Organ: https://x.com/organ_danny

Pia Szabo: https://x.com/0xPia

Wish building onchain was easy? Start building with Coinbase Developer Platform to easily add wallets, onramps, swaps, onchain data and more to your app in minutes.

► Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/coinbasedev

► Follow us on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/coinbasedeveloperplatform/

► Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/CDP

► Our website: https://cdp.coinbase.com

► Our docs: https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com

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This content is being provided to you for informational purposes only. Nothing discussed in this video is intended to be investment advice. This content, and any information contained therein, does not constitute a recommendation by Coinbase to buy, sell or hold any security, financial product or instrument referenced in the content.