Axel Mittbauer
20 Mar 2026Pokémon GO, AI Dog Cancer, Banksy, Open AI Side Quests
1:17:4230 min
Axel Mittbauer: Base, Stablecoins & the Agentic Economy
Axel Mittbauer, Base's West Europe lead, introduces Base as Coinbase's Ethereum L2 aiming to onboard the next billion users and a million builders, covering Base Batches, stablecoin volumes of ~$12.5T a year, regulatory clarity, and Coinbase's X402 machine-to-machine payment protocol. He walks through his piece 'Your Agent Lacks Dopamine' on making agentic UX engaging, predicts AR as a future interface layer, and afterwards the hosts chat about Anthropic's new interactive graphs.