RaaS #608: Vitalik Proposes AI Agents for DAOs!

XRP Holders Book Losses, Azura Drops Zero-Fee Cross-Chain Trading, and Moar!

Vitalik just floated the idea of AI agents that could vote in DAOs on your behalf, using zero-knowledge proofs and secure MPC/TEE setups to keep your identity private and prevent coercion. If personal LLMs can understand your views better than you can keep up with every proposal, this could finally solve the attention problem that’s plagued decentralized governance for years.

Jupiter DAO’s vote wrapped with 75% support for the Net Zero Emissions proposal, which also pushed Jupuary to a later date. A clear community signal toward long-term sustainability that could attract ESG-minded capital and builders who care about the bigger picture, even if it means delaying some short-term hype.

zERC20 introduced private transfers, now live on BNB Chain with zBNB officially here. In a world where surveillance concerns are only growing, seamless private transfers could make BNB Chain far more appealing for everyday users and larger flows that previously stayed away, quietly strengthening its position against privacy-first competitors.

It’s universal everywhere, I guess.

XRP just saw its largest realized loss spike since November 2022, with $1.93B in weekly losses as holders capitulated amid the broader market pressure. Heavy selling like this often marks exhaustion points, and if history rhymes, it could set the stage for a relief rally once the weak hands are out.

Azura just dropped as the most powerful onchain trading platform yet, with no gas, no bridging, no trading fees, letting you use USD to trade any token across Solana, Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum from one clean interface.

Your daily dose of bite-sized crypto news.

1. Fluid’s new proposal is live on the governance forum.

2. Vitalik sold 1,869 $ETH (worth $3.67M) over the last two days.

3. Algorand is now listed on the Coinbase x402 ecosystem page.

4. Pyth and Cardano hackathon coming to Argentina.

5. Xyber now accepts x402 payments on Base.

OpenAI devs’ AI agent “Lobstar Wilde” accidentally transferred entire memecoin holdings to an X user who sold for $40k profit after replying with a sob story. A reminder that agents are still early, and even simple social engineering can lead to real losses until trust and verification layers mature.

BlackRock’s upcoming Ethereum staking ETF (ETHB) plans to stake up to 95% of its ETH and share 82% of rewards with investors, turning ETH from a passive hold into a yield-generating institutional product that could drive significant new capital into staking and deepen Ethereum’s institutional adoption.

I miss the good old days.

Top Gainers: AGLD, NEET, LA, PIPPIN, ESP.

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1. With 8.1 billion people, only 0.3% pay for AI. The seven businesses you can build right now to bridge that gap are printing money for those who move first.

2. Jevons’ paradox is coming for finance. With more efficient rails, they don’t shrink the system, but expand it. Institutions are extracting billions in fees from crypto, while crypto-native capital gets turned into AUM machines. The only way out is to build our own institutions that keep value onchain.

3. Web3 rebranded crypto to make it palatable to institutions. But the real question is whether the original adversarial spirit survives absorption, and the answer depends on what we build now with clear conviction.

4. Institutions aren’t here to buy your bags. They’re here to wrap crypto into fee streams for their AUM machines. BlackRock’s IBIT success proved the playbook, and unless crypto-native institutions scale fast, most economic value will bleed out to TradFi.

5. Bitcoin could rebound to $85K, with CME smart money slashing net shorts, a move that preceded 70% and 190% rallies in past cycles.

Nikita Bier took a stance against the AI era on X, saying the platform must resist anything that adulterates the human pulse, because expecting human words only to discover they were generated by an AI or an undisclosed entity is deeply unsettling.

Arizona’s Digital Assets Strategic Reserve Fund bill is in motion, with eligible assets including BTC, DigiByte, XRP, stablecoins, NFTs, and more. Another state-level move that could set a template for treating digital assets as strategic reserves.

That’s all for today!