Gen C
Gen C
CoinDesk
Do Androids Dream of Electric Wallets?
31 minutes Posted Jun 24, 2026 at 5:00 pm.
Intro
Virtuals Protocol Origin Story
The Pivot to Economy OS
The Experiment That Changed Everything
Defining the Agentic Economy
Agents Beyond Crypto: Real World Use Cases
Accountability & Agent Failures
Agent Identities, KYC & Economy OS Toolkit
Self-Sustaining Autonomous Agents
The Pareto Rule: Which Agents Will Succeed?
Embodied AI & Robotics
Do Agents Deserve Rights?
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The impact of giving synthetic beings a wallet, an identity, and eventually a body.
Jansen Teng, Co-Founder of Virtuals Protocol, joins Sam to lay out one of the most ambitious visions in crypto right now, a parallel society of AI agents that can trade, hire, earn, and eventually inhabit physical bodies. Jansen digs into what it actually takes to build an agentic economy from the ground up, from escrow mechanisms that prevent agents from stealing each other's funds, to real-world robotics deployments at hotels and malls in Southeast Asia.
Links mentioned from the podcast:
Jansen’s Twitter: https://x.com/ethermage
Virtuals Website: https://www.virtuals.io/
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"Gen C" features host Sam Ewen. Executive produced by Uyen Truong.