{"podcast":{"title":"No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups","slug":"no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363","podcast_index_feed_id":5990363,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/nopriors","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/803e0244-9d0f-11ed-923a-4bb54bf77468/image/NO_PRIORS_ALBUM_and_PROFILE_PIC-01.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Conviction","episode_count":164,"summary":"At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com. Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or \"Software 3.0\" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners. Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363"},"episode":{"title":"The Agentic Economy: How AI Agents Will Transform the Financial System with Circle Co-Founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire","slug":"the-agentic-economy-how-ai-agents-will-transform-the-financial-system-with-circle-co-founder-and-ceo-jeremy-allaire","published_at":"2026-04-09T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363/the-agentic-economy-how-ai-agents-will-transform-the-financial-system-with-circle-co-founder-and-ceo-jeremy-allaire","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PDP7244186140.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PDP7244186140.mp3","summary":"AI agents can already collaborate, but they lack a trustworthy medium in which to store value and execute contracts. Enter Circle’s Arc Blockchain, an economic “operating system” designed for a world where machines drive the real economy. Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire joins Elad Gil to dive into the future of programmable money and the agentic economy. Jeremy explains why traditional banking fails to support the needs of AI agents, and how stablecoins like USDC facilitate an internet-native economy. They also discuss the tokenization of real-world assets, the move toward full-reserve banking, and Jeremy’s predictions for double-digit GDP growth as AI and blockchain reach their “broadband moment.” Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com Follow us on Twitter: @NoPriorsPod | @Saranormous | @EladGil | @jerallaire | @circle Chapters: 00:00 – Cold Open 00:05 – Jeremy Allaire Introduction 00:21 – Origin Story of Circle 02:11 – Rethinking the Financial System 05:26 – The Role of Stablecoins 09:52 – Use Cases for USDC 11:30 – Programmable Money 12:25 – Blockchain as Operating System 14:37 – The Agentic Economy 17:45 – Arc Blockchain Use Cases 27:00 – Scaling Models and Privacy Tech 30:45 – Securitization of Other Assets Under the Blockchain 34:16 – Prediction Markets 35:09 – Incremental Revenue Through GPU Usage 37:19 – Jeremy’s 10 Year Future Vision 41:12 – AI and GDP 44:00 – Conclusion","meta_description":"AI agents can already collaborate, but they lack a trustworthy medium in which to store value and execute contracts. Enter Circle’s Arc Blockchain, an eco…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2640,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363/episodes/the-agentic-economy-how-ai-agents-will-transform-the-financial-system-with-circle-co-founder-and-ceo-jeremy-allaire/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-priors-artificial-intelligence-technology-startups-5990363/the-agentic-economy-how-ai-agents-will-transform-the-financial-system-with-circle-co-founder-and-ceo-jeremy-allaire.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}