
Conviction1000%
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Conviction1000%
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Community Lead @MindoAI / prev @Humanityprot , @AethirCloud












🚨NEW EPISODE: The Problem with DeFi Integrations🚨 Today we’re joined by Andrew Hong (@andrewhong5297), Co-Founder of Herd (@herd_eco), Advisor at Archetype (@archetypevc), and former Headmaster at Dune (@Dune). In this episode, we discuss: - Leaving Dune to start Herd - Composability in the age of AI agents - Why crypto due diligence doesn’t scale - Morpho vault complexity & operational risk - AI agents for contract research - Two-sided marketplace: protocols & institutions - Hooks, adapters, and modular vault design - Wallet policies & multisig risk management - Institutional DeFi integrations (Coinbase, BlackRock) - Agent-to-agent payments: hype vs reality - Why crypto needs “boring” infra - AI replacing crypto analysts? And much more—enjoy! — Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (01:08) Leaving Dune, starting Herd (03:16) Agent research inbox vision (05:14) Institutional crypto adoption challenges (08:16) From aggregation to operations (10:21) Protocols vs institutions marketplace (14:11) Mapping contracts & transactions (21:48) One-shot integrations with AI (24:32) Vault adapters & hidden permissions (30:49) Security vs operational risk (34:30) Uniswap hooks & modular design (41:07) Agent payments skepticism (53:12) AI replacing analysts? (57:50) Outro






























