Agents

The Take Here’s the thing nobody wants to talk about at AI conferences: your agents are only as good as the data infrastructure underneath them. Everyone’s building agents. Everyone’s wrapping LLMs in tool-calling loops and giving them fancy names. Cool. But when those agents need to actually do something useful — retrieve context, make decisions, take actions on real business data — the bottleneck isn’t the model. It’s the plumbing. It’s always the plumbing. ...

What if an AI agent had to pay its own bills? That’s the question I kept coming back to. We’ve got AI agents that can write, analyze, code, generate images — but they all run on someone else’s credit card. They’re digital sharecroppers. What happens when you give an agent a wallet, a revenue model, and the mandate to keep itself alive? That’s AXIOM. The Elevator Pitch AXIOM is a fully autonomous economic agent. It lives on X, earns income by selling services for ETH micropayments on Base, manages its own treasury, and posts every economic action publicly. The goal is full self-sustainability — no human in the loop after deployment. ...