Agents as NFTs, the ‘Resource Problem’, and More
What if NFTs did more than just provide provenance and prove possession? As Dan writes in this newsletter, turning agents into NFTs would also let their holders improve their digital property.
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Agents have “memories” that allow them to record their experiences performing tasks for their principals. These experiences are unique, which makes them non-fungible. An NFT could represent an agent, and holding this NFT could provide exclusive read/write access to an associated memory slot in a trustless memory layer (functioning effectively as a “license” to these memories).
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