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Autonomy vs. Guardrails: Crypto's Next AI Fight

OpenClaw made agents autonomous. Conway wants them self-funding. Now the debate is whether that's innovation or a problem.
Autonomy vs. Guardrails: Crypto's Next AI Fight
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If you’ve spent time with OpenClaw, you’ll know that inference costs rapidly stack up. That's simply the cost of agentic AI – the more capable you make it, the more it costs to run, and you're the one that has to foot that bill.

Yet, a new project, dubbed Web4.0, caught attention this week and looks to shift that cost from us to the agent actually making the inference.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the rise of OpenClaw and how its breakthrough came from making the heartbeat — a proactive loop where an agent wakes up on a set interval, scans its environment, checks for work, and executes tasks on its own — a default, widely available feature.

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David Christopher

Written by David Christopher

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David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.

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