# S.10 Ep.10 AI Agents on Ethereum Inside the Emerging Agentic Economy with Austin Griffith & Zak Cole

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Published: 2026-02-09T15:29:00+00:00
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New @greenpillnet pod out today! 🌐 In this episode of the Greenpill Podcast, Kevin Owocki is joined by Zak Cole and Austin Griffith for a live, builder-focused conversation on AI agents, OpenClaw, and the emerging agentic economy on Ethereum. They dive deep into how they're actually running AI agents today from hardware setups and coordination layers to adversarial review loops, memory systems, and on-chain reputation. The conversation explores why agents need roles, audits, and social contracts, how ERC-8004 could enable agent discovery and trust, and why Ethereum may be the settlement layer for autonomous AI coordination. A raw, high-signal discussion for builders experimenting at the frontier of AI × crypto, touching on open source, security, reputation, payments, and what a real agent economy might look like. 🌱 greenpill.network @greenpillnet https://x.com/owocki https://x.com/0xzak https://x.com/austingriffith ⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 – Intro: why AI agents + OpenClaw matter right now 01:20 – Bear market builders & shipping through the noise 02:10 – Productivity, GitHub graphs & AI as leverage 03:10 – Hardware setups for running AI agents 04:20 – OpenClaw stacks, Telegram, Discord & coordination 05:50 – Network effects vs building your own tools 07:00 – Agent coordination problems & feedback loops 08:30 – Assigning roles and adversarial agents 10:20 – Scalability, failover & federated agents 12:10 – Managing many models & local vs cloud LLMs 14:00 – AI productivity, family time & work-life alignment 15:55 – Treating agents like junior developers 17:25 – Auditing smart contracts with AI 18:25 – Why blockchains matter for agent coordination 19:45 – ERC-8004: discovery & reputation for agents 21:00 – Hiring agents, marketplaces & reputation systems 22:15 – Taste, marketin…

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