Recap · August 31, 2025 · 27:34
Foobar: Why Memecoins Will Fail, AI Crypto Wallets, Circle and More | TG Podcast
The Signal
Foobar, an AI-and-crypto builder, introduces Circuit: a self-custodial platform where users can run trading agents against their existing wallets. He argues that agent finance can move ordinary users beyond manual clicking, but only if platforms make delegation safe, explainable and verifiable; the broader opportunity, in his view, lies beyond memecoins' zero-sum ceiling.
Key Takeaways
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AGENTS ON EXISTING WALLETS
Circuit lets users deploy agents for strategies from momentum and mean reversion to Polymarket or Solana trading. Foobar says the agent executes the user's thesis rather than replacing it.
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TRUST IS THE GATE
The product is in closed beta and is focused on sandboxing, signing and self-custody. Users should be able to inspect what an agent is doing and its onchain history before allocating more capital.
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THE MIDDLE IS BOXED OUT
Foobar estimates most onchain activity is already automated, but says it is split between manual retail and sophisticated MEV bots. Circuit is aimed at people who cannot code bots full-time.
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MEMECOINS HAVE A CEILING
He calls memecoins fundamentally zero-sum because somebody eventually sells to someone else. Agents can make that game more efficient, but he sees more durable opportunity in early access to assets with real product adoption.
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A PLATFORM, NOT ONLY FIRST-PARTY TOOLS
Circuit intends to allow third parties to build agents, with usage, compute and potentially performance fees shared between the agent creator and the platform.
On the Record
“Circuit lets you run any agent on your existing wallet.”
“The vast majority of people kind of this middle class who doesn't really want to code bots full-time but also doesn't have the time to go super deep on Axiom or whatever they just don't have a good way to use crypto right now.”
“For zero sum games like certain meme coins where someone's trying to dump on someone else like the metagame does get solved but for fundamental investing the more people that are doing the same thing the more profitable it becomes.”
“You can go in and verify every action an agent has done since the beginning of time.”
The Breakdown
From early language models to crypto
Foobar introduces himself as an AI and crypto builder whose earlier work at Amazon included training a very large BERT model. He describes that model as an early precursor that could perform simple completion tasks, rather than anything like today's assistants. After leaving big tech, he spent roughly five years across smart-contract development, audits, protocols and crypto communities before bringing those threads together in Circuit.
A wallet that can delegate
Circuit's premise is that wallets make onchain activity unnecessarily laborious. Instead of researching tokens and approving each transaction manually, a user could deploy an agent against an existing wallet and specify a goal. Foobar says his own agents run momentum, narrative and mean-reversion strategies, monitoring onchain and Twitter activity and executing according to instructions while he is away.
Automation needs a trust layer
He says the term agent has been diluted by lightweight experiments, while financial delegation needs institutional-grade safeguards. Circuit's team includes the former head of AI at Bridgewater and Kraken's co-founder, according to Foobar, and is building self-custodial infrastructure so agents can act autonomously. The target user is neither a full-time bot operator nor a purely manual trader, but the large middle group currently squeezed between them.
From a small allocation to routine use
Foobar expects users to begin by assigning agents a small portion of a portfolio, then increase usage after months of reliable operation. In his forecast, agents could handle 95% or more of activity within a year or two. The transition resembles moving from many web searches to asking an assistant, he says: the appeal is not just higher returns, but avoiding the repeated work of navigating exchanges and signing transactions.
Memecoins are not the whole market
Threadguy worries that universally available agents would erase the remaining edge in memecoin trading. Foobar agrees that the meta-game becomes solved in a zero-sum market, where a token eventually needs a new buyer. But he argues that agents can expand participation into majors, midcaps and emerging protocols: early, automated access to a product with genuine adoption is different from merely outpacing another trader.
Transparency before blind delegation
A mental barrier is inevitable, Foobar says. Circuit's answer is to show a user what an agent is thinking, what it has done and how it performed for others over weeks or months. Onchain execution means its history can be checked directly. He argues that equal performance could be enough to win users if it removes hours of tracking Twitter, Discord, Telegram and several wallet interfaces.
An open marketplace and beta launch
Foobar says Circuit is not limited to agents made by his team: outside builders will be able to publish agents, earning alongside the platform when users adopt them. The company was in closed beta, concentrating on secure sandboxing, signing and agent quality, with a larger open beta planned before a late-summer or early-fall public launch. Pricing was still undecided, though he expects usage and possibly performance fees to support the model.
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