Community Pod [Ep 4 Part 2]: Crestal Networks and Ai Agent Economy

Marouen Zelleg— co-founder of Crestal Network—explains how AI agents can replace much of today’s freelance work, how tokens are a double edge sword and how Crestal’s open-source Intent Kit handles the hard bits: hosting, payments, access-control and on-chain incentives. Twitters: https://x.com/crestalnetwork | https://x.com/intentkitai | https://x.com/marouen9 Key Topics: Users vs creators: turning Fiverr-style gigs into 24/7 agents Hosting, payments and updates as the real pain points CAPS micro-credits for every agent call; future on-chain x402 payments Revenue split among creators, platform and Intent Kit developers Public vs private skills, verifiability and access control When and how an agent can launch its own token Long-term goal: a pure-agent freelancer marketplace About Marouen Engineer who built large no-code systems for MINDEF and Toyota, led MetaMask BD at ConsenSys, and Polygon in APAC and now heads Crestal’s push toward an agent-driven economy. TImeStamps: 01:13 Users vs creators; AI replaces manual gigs 02:36 Incentives for open-source agent creators 03:34 Live agent demo and hosting 05:05 BTC analysis agent example 06:41 Verifiable logs and access control 08:11 Public vs private skills 11:43 CAPS credit system and payments 13:21 Revenue-sharing model 16:09 Micro-payments and the x402 path 16:53 CAPS (internal) vs NATION (external) tokens 18:33 Do tokens distract builders? 22:46 Criteria to launch agent tokens 25:06 Vision and near-mid-term challenges 30:26 MCP server limits; building before the token Links Crestal Website: https://crestal.network Intent Kit: https://github.com/crestalnetwork/int...