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INTRODUCING BASED AGENT: CREATE AI AGENTS WITH FULL ONCHAIN FUNCTIONALITY IN LESS THAN 3 MINUTES

Coinbase's Developer Platform (CDP) has announced the Based Agent: a framework to create autonomous onchain agents with full access to any onchain interaction. With OpenAI's GPT-4o model, users can have a fully functional agent that can work in chat or autonomous mode in less than three minutes. Users can easily add any functionality to the Python-based bot, including posting its thoughts on Twitter.

POSSIBLE FUTURES OF THE ETHEREUM PROTOCOL, PART 4: THE VERGE

Ethereum's Verge portion of the roadmap aims to drastically reduce node operation requirements, enabling full verification on lightweight devices like mobile phones and smartwatches. It accomplishes this optimization through stateless verification and validity proofs. Key decisions remain, like how to consider quantum resistance versus performance. In this post, Vitalik Buterins outlines plans for implementing validity proofs for EVM execution and consensus and making a much more cryptographically robust protocol.

A PERSPECTIVE ON LEGAL SETUPS FOR CRYPTO COMPANIES

Web3 foundations were set up to handle token issuance offshore to legally and financially separate token operations from the development company to minimize founder liability and avoid regulatory constraints in places like the U.S. or Singapore. Two main structures exist — the Panama Private Interest Foundation and Cayman Foundation Company — each designed to obscure or eliminate the founders as ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs), thus preventing direct tax and legal implications. However, this requires careful setup to avoid pitfalls, with independent governance often achievable only in the costlier Cayman model.

CBDCS AND CRYPTO SHOULD COEXIST, NOT COMPETE — COINDCX CO-FOUNDER

Sumit Gupta, co-founder of CoinDCX, advocates for the coexistence of CBDCs and cryptocurrencies in India, suggesting they serve complementary roles: CBDCs provide centralized financial control and policy implementation, while cryptocurrencies support self-sovereignty and decentralized finance. Gupta says that balanced regulation and tax relief are crucial to foster India's Web3 innovation and that CBDCs will not undermine personal financial autonomy.

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