AI agents become economically consequential when they can hold a budget, purchase tools, hire other agents and commit scarce resources. The wallet turns software from a tool into a customer, employer and tiny organization.
Web3 promised that assets and protocols could outlive companies. The shutdowns revealed that permanent data cannot preserve interfaces, maintenance, understanding, or care.
Around ETHSeoul and BUIDL Asia, Seoul became a dense field site for zero-knowledge systems, Ethereum scaling, builder culture, and the social life of infrastructure.
A reconstructed field note from GreenChill in Yoyogi Park, where a DAO TOKYO side event turned public-goods theory into an open, low-pressure gathering under the sky.
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