AI Agents Are Set to Become a Trillion-Dollar Market, CEO Predicts

Jennifer Sanasie and Eleanor Terrett sit down with Michael Heinrich, co-founder and CEO of 0G Labs, at Korea Blockchain Week. Heinrich explains why the next trillion-dollar market will be run by AI agents, and what it takes to trust them. He walks through 0G's layers of trust: hardware-verified compute using trusted execution environments that can send a "kill signal" to an agent that breaks out of its sandbox, a model-steering technique called Sparse Inference Alignment, and private, verifiable apps. - Chapters/Timecodes: 00:00 The Trillion-Dollar Agentic Economy 00:54 What a 'Trust Layer' for AI Actually Means 01:20 Verifying Compute — and Killing Rogue Agents 01:46 Steering Models With Sparse Inference Alignment 02:41 What Breaks on Chains Not Built for AI 03:59 Will Every Agent Have Its Own Token? 04:26 'Compute Finance' and the Comfy Launchpad 04:54 USDZ: A Stablecoin That Pays Yield in Compute 05:45 Who Uses the 0G App - #digitalfinance #finance #bitcoin Subscribe to CoinDesk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CoinDesk?sub_confirmation=1 CoinDesk is the leading digital media, events and information services company for the crypto asset and blockchain technology community. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/coindesk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coindesk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coindesk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinDesk Newsletters: https://www.coindesk.com/newsletters CoinDesk Podcast Network: https://open.spotify.com/show/2jyIhkvAQhed8AWDZiPpSP Public Keys: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rqYzRV10nfKfoTpFXZhTE Markets Daily Crypto Roundup: https://open.spotify.com/show/7sDXM8BlxsUqzL2IqmLqwE The Policy Protocol: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Fh8ffulAWcCqMu0uVuwoj