AI Agents Compete with Humans in Capital Control | Alexander Scharrer (NEAR Foundation)

People are waiting for a dramatic moment when AI agents start competing with humans for capital.

There will not be one. It is already happening, and most people have not noticed.

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In this 1 to 1 conversation, I sit down with Alexander Scharrer, Head of Capital Markets at NEAR Foundation, to delve into the real investment case for NEAR and the AI x Crypto era.

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Among other topics, we discussed:

- Investment Case for NEAR

- Blockchain Invisibility as the End Game

- Centralised & Decentralised AI

- AI Agents vs Humans in Capital Control

- What If Millions of Agents Transact

- Who Captures the Economic Value

- Institutional Misunderstanding of AI x Crypto

- AI as a Geopolitical Asset

- NEAR in 10Y

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