Just DAO It: A Podcast for People Starting DAOs
Oct 13, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
Adam Miller's talk from Maryland Blockchain Bootcamp 2026 (Capitol Technology University, July 2026). AI agents already hold wallets, credentials, and onchain identity, and the law still assumes a…
Adam MillerHost
In this field, the marketing runs well ahead of the engineering, and the gap between the two is where the risk lives.
It places the trade, sends the payment, posts the message, signs the transaction, especially thanks to blockchain technology.
The step change of the last two years is that this stopped being just a research demo.
If you give a capable model a goal, a set of tools, and standing permission to act, it will run that loop, perceive, decide, act, for hours, days, or longer without a human in the loop.
The moment software holds a private key, it can move value without asking anyone, and that is not exotic.
That's their number, not mine, but the product is real, and any developer can download and build with it right now.
Agents are also being wired into authority, inbox access, corporate credentials, procurement systems, even the power to commit an organization via contract without a human touching the decision.
One more piece of plumbing we'll discuss a little bit later because it returns in a compliance context too, identity.
Ethereum's emerging agent standard, ERC-8004, gives agents on-chain identity, reputation, and validation registries, and it has contributors from MetaMask, the Ethereum Foundation, Google, and Coinbase.
Who stands behind the identity is a different question, and it's the one the law cares about.
In this field, the marketing runs well ahead of the engineering, and the gap between the two is where the risk lives.
It places the trade, sends the payment, posts the message, signs the transaction, especially thanks to blockchain technology.
The step change of the last two years is that this stopped being just a research demo.
If you give a capable model a goal, a set of tools, and standing permission to act, it will run that loop, perceive, decide, act, for hours, days, or longer without a human in the loop.
The moment software holds a private key, it can move value without asking anyone, and that is not exotic.
That's their number, not mine, but the product is real, and any developer can download and build with it right now.
Agents are also being wired into authority, inbox access, corporate credentials, procurement systems, even the power to commit an organization via contract without a human touching the decision.
One more piece of plumbing we'll discuss a little bit later because it returns in a compliance context too, identity.
Ethereum's emerging agent standard, ERC-8004, gives agents on-chain identity, reputation, and validation registries, and it has contributors from MetaMask, the Ethereum Foundation, Google, and Coinbase.
Who stands behind the identity is a different question, and it's the one the law cares about.
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