Coinbase Baldy: Meme coins aren’t going anywhere, AI agents will outnumber humans, and Crypto might become their native financial system. Let’s talk about Meme coins first. Armstrong doesn’t see them as pure garbage. His perspective is more like viewing them as part of the attention economy: people are trading the most viral cultural symbols of the moment. The issue is that regulation has been too vague in the past, making it hard for legitimate on-chain projects that want to raise funds or build products to find compliant pathways. As a result, a lot of capital and attention got funneled into Meme coins. Meme coins will continue to exist in the future, but they might evolve from simple pump-and-dump schemes into a new way of issuing assets that combines culture, community, and value. Now about AI + Crypto. In the future, the number of AI agents might surpass humans. These agents will buy data, purchase computing power, access services, hire other agents, and generate massive amounts of real-time microtransactions. Traditional banks weren’t designed for machines, and credit cards aren’t suitable for settling transactions worth just a few cents every second. Stablecoins, on-chain wallets, and programmable payments, on the other hand, are naturally suited for AI. This ties Meme, AI, and Crypto together. Meme addresses attention, AI agents bring new economic entities, and Crypto provides the financial rails that allow them to operate autonomously 24/7. That’s why Armstrong is working so hard to push the CLARITY Act in Washington—not just to save Coinbase from getting hit with more fines. He’s betting that in the next generation of the internet, content, attention, AI, and money will fully merge.