Why the autonomous economy needs new infrastructure — not better blockchains
Mike Gault·
When most people think about the agentic economy, they reach for blockchain analogies. "Better Ethereum." "Faster L2." "Cheaper gas." These are reasonable starting points if you think the bottleneck is throughput. We don't.
The web was built for humans
Almost every primitive in the modern web — DNS, OAuth, HTTPS, REST — was designed assuming a human at the keyboard. Agents inherit those assumptions and the friction that comes with them. A new substrate has to remove the human in the middle of every transaction, not just speed up the rails between humans.