
Imagine building an AI agent on Base that can keep track of all of your crypto transactions and automatically take enough profits so you can stay on top of your USD tax liabilities.
Or an agent that can automatically rebalance your crypto portfolio so that profits are automatically moved into quality coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana and you don’t end up with 90% shitcoins that you would’ve roundtripped back to zero at the end of the cycle.
Nemil Dalal, at Base’s AI Agent event in Bangkok. (Fenton)
Magazine did imagine these things and suggested them to Nemil Dalal, the senior director of the Coinbase Developer Platform, in the hope he could get someone to build them. Base is creating the AI tools necessary so that anyone with a bright idea can build it regardless of technical ability.
That platform is targeting one million devs building on Base, and that’s only going to happen with the assistance of AI coding.
“We’re just scratching the surface of how much productivity they can get, but in like, six or 12 months, I can see really fantastical apps being built in just a matter of a few types of prompts with your AI,” he says.
“I think we’re in a magical era of building. I think software engineering is going to change more in the next year than it has in the last 30 years.”
As it happens Dalal really loves the automatic portfolio rebalancing idea.
“I think it’s another really great example,” Dalal says across the table at a McDonalds in Bangkok, where we’ve been forced to retreat from Base’s noisy “Every AI Agent Needs a Wallet” event nearby.
“I think actually it’s such a good idea that we may put it out in our docs as an example of what people can build,” he says.
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