While crypto traders scramble to find the perfect AI agent crypto token to strike it rich, Base creator Jesse Pollak suggests a more straightforward approach: “Go and build something.”
“There are all of these tool kits that let you start experimenting with building your own AI agent out of the box,” Pollak tells Hall of Flame.
He says Virtuals on Base is “really cool,” but there’s another platform called Me.fun where you don’t have to launch a token with your AI agent. It lets you customize an agent, tweak its guidance, and plug in different data sources.
Pollak explains that if you make an AI agent that starts generating content on Zora and others begin minting the non-fungible token (NFTs), then “boom, now you’re making money.”
“One of the cool things about being onchain is you can get paid for your creativity.”
Pollak believes that pretty much anything you do onchain has value. If you create something that catches attention and people find it cool, he says there is always a way for value to flow back to you.
“The technology is finally ready on the AI side and the onchain side, and we are finally seeing the intersection between those two things,” explains the computer science dropout turned crypto industry cult hero with over 200,000 X followers.
To the Fudders claiming “AI on crypto is dead,” Pollak fires back, “We’re just getting started.”
The top AI and data tokens have a market cap of about $47.46 billion — which is around a third of the total DeFi market cap of $153.53 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.
“There is no better way to be part of it than to learn by building,” says the tech whiz with a strong passion for soccer, who has always had an entrepreneurial spirit.
Even with Pollak’s hectic schedule running Base and traveling the world, he still makes time for a restaurant in his hometown, Oakland, called “daytrip” that…
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