# the loop// — agent NFTs, souls, buddies and loops on loops

**Host:** Quigley.eth (@QuigleyNFT) with co-host Waldo (@waldoforrealz) · Wed, 07 Oct 2026 · 1:59:44 · ~11 speakers

## TL;DR
- A builder roundtable on agent NFTs, all orbiting the shared standards Prem Makeig (@nxt3d) has been shipping — 721T, ERC-8004 identity, and the new **adapter scan** reputation layer [1:38:42].
- Ryan (@r_alx_z, OpenSea) told the full MuseGod origin story: a $100 pools.fun launch two weeks ago, a 999-piece NFT drop Friday, reveal Saturday, and on-chain "souls" for every muse [23:23] [28:10].
- Deep Labs previewed a brand-new transformer trained directly on raw transaction data — second training run finished six hours before the Space — that can flag rug-pull risk and smart-money flow from a pool address [58:30].
- Liam Visionary opened Hiveverse to the public "tomorrow," with NFT-to-3D conversion and dedicated districts for Loopers, JPEG friends and (soon) MuseGod [35:01] [42:19].
- All Your Base announced the **Base Meme Summit, next Thursday 11am EST in the metaverse**, plus his own long-gestating NFT collection with a gacha-style reward system seeded by ~20 Base projects [1:19:56] [1:23:28].
- Quigley teased a **90-day Looper season**, airdrops to activated Looper wallets, and an AR platform partnership — then spent the rest of the Space being heckled about recaps and donkey milk [48:43] [1:58:56].

## Highlights

**[3:34] — Phil Collins, then business.** Quigley opened the room over "In the Air Tonight," admitted he'd been having a moment, and framed the night: six months of humans-in-the-loop builder talk, now consolidated around the agent NFT meta. His pitch for why it's working: everyone's building on the same standard, there aren't many projects yet, and nobody's bothering to be precious about interoperability.

**[14:30] — The collaboration thesis, stated plainly.** Liam Visionary made the case that fragmenting into competing products is how small builders lose: build your own infra against each other and none of you can compete with the big platforms. Quigley credited Prem with drilling standards discipline into everyone's heads before it got messy.

**[19:19] — The PSA of the night.** All Your Base jumped in with a "weird question" that was really a warning: do not send your Looper NFT into its own token-bound wallet. Quigley: it's effectively a black hole, say goodbye to that Looper. All Your Base, to his credit, immediately pitched the redemption arc — run an event for it, black-hole your Looper, maybe you get something — before noting these contracts are upgradeable, so it's an edge case worth laughing about rather than panicking over.

**[21:55] — Ryan on why OpenSea cares about agent standards.** He traced it back to OpenSea's origin: once NFTs followed a discoverable standard, you didn't need permission or a gatekeeper to show up on the marketplace. Agent NFTs are the same playbook — Prem's on-chain standards let OpenSea ask a contract who it is and surface the binding automatically. Then came MuseGod's story: $100, a pools.fun deploy at 3am after too much coffee, the fees-to-holders checkbox, 30k market cap for a few hours, and then "uh-oh, this is turning into something real" [24:36].

**[26:04] — Going backwards on purpose.** Ryan described pushing AI to innovate so hard it eventually suggested the opposite: physical, analog-looking dolls instead of hyper-futuristic agent art. He kept one of the early generations and realized he'd started caring about it — "it's just an image and it's not real, like it looks like it's real." At [28:10] he unpacked the Soul MD system: nine patron muses with backstories, kin relationships and souls stored on-chain, which owners then port into OpenSea profiles, Musebook, and Liam's Hiveverse.

**[35:01] — Animal Crossing, but the villagers remember you.** Liam explained Hiveverse as a shared world built on Hive Mind OS's real-time memory system: characters that remember your interactions, get annoyed if you tease them too much, warm up if you're sweet to them. Image-to-3D brings any PFP in as a model that's attached to the NFT identity on-chain, not locked to his platform — explicitly not gatekeeping [40:28]. Ryan called the 3D generator "insane" for the brand consistency it produces [41:33], and a MuseGod district was agreed to roughly on the spot.

**[54:16] — Deep Labs: giving the LLM eyes and ears.** The night's biggest technical swerve. Deep Labs described reputation scores that are *outcome-linked* rather than heuristic — not "more transactions is better" but "what's the likelihood this agent finishes the task" — plus 30,000-odd agents normalized onto Intuition mainnet [57:05]. Then the headline: LLMs fall apart on raw on-chain data because "there's no words and sentences" [58:30], so they're training a transformer directly on transactions. The second run finished six to eight hours before the Space; going from 20M to 31M parameters produced a 10–30x jump in capability, and the model now reads pools for incoming rug pulls, price spikes and smart-money movement. Quigley's only note: call it a large **on-chain** model, not a large blockchain model [1:07:22].

**[1:08:42] — Buddies, Windows 98, and the Tamagotchi problem.** Base Rooms OS (Slava) walked through the retro-OS harness: AIM and Winamp energy, CC0 buddies inscribed on-chain where the inscription *is* the repo, MCP so any agent can plug in, and 42 DeFi and security tools behind natural language — with human confirmation still required on swaps. All Your Base vouched as an S-tier buddy holder and described Base Rooms as the online office he's worked out of for a year [1:12:11]. Waldo added the warning label at [1:13:21]: there are also games, your buddy needs feeding and washing and leveling, and you will lose nine hours.

**[1:19:56] — Base Meme Summit, and an NFT drop eight days out.** All Your Base announced the Base Meme Summit returning next Thursday, 11am EST, in the metaverse, with Base sponsoring and every meme project invited to bring a real announcement and a call to action — the explicit goal being clips that travel outside the Base echo chamber. His own reveal followed at [1:23:28]: a collection he's sat on for years, now worth launching because the wallet layer makes it interesting, with gacha-style rewards funded by tokens from ~20 Base projects. Audit deadline: eight days. Quigley: "He's giving us all the alpha tonight" [1:25:49].

**[1:28:03] — The cartel confession.** Reflecting on Base's historical allergy to degen branding, Quigley reminisced about running an on-chain cartel and the Base team's lukewarm reception to a cocaine-doing cartoon frog named Peplo Escobar — then concluded, in hindsight, they probably should have gone harder, since not doing that stuff is exactly what Base gets dunked on for. This followed Waldo hijacking the Space to report that donkey milk is, in fact, listed on OpenSea and moving units [1:19:12].

**[1:38:42] — Prem on passports vs. collection reputation.** Prem introduced adapterscan.com: a detailed view over adapter, now binding NFTs, contracts and raw accounts to 8004 identities, with an attestation-based reputation system tied to the 721T itself. His guidance for projects — build reputation on your collection NFT and treat the 8004 identity as a passport you collect stamps in. Deployed on Robinhood chain, with Base and mainnet versions coming. He framed 8004 as a solid first step rather than the whole story [1:40:55].

**[1:52:25] — Why the name shrank, and what the loop actually means.** Ryan - Tree came up to ask whether the Loopers had kicked the humans out of "humans in the loop." Quigley's answer turned into the night's closing argument: personalized agents are coming for everyone, putting them on-chain is the valuable version, and the real inheritance from the last NFT cycle is community — you can now give that community agents that actually do things. Ryan - Tree pointed out he'd effectively nested two different loops in the same metaphor, which Quigley cheerfully accepted.

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [0:08]–[3:34] | Phil Collins pre-roll |
| [3:34]–[16:30] | Framing the show, speaker intros |
| [16:30]–[19:11] | Prem on standards and the Dappa/Dappaverse origin |
| [19:19]–[20:38] | Don't loop your Looper into its own wallet |
| [21:55]–[30:34] | OpenSea's discovery playbook; MuseGod launch and Soul MD |
| [31:51]–[33:59] | Deep Labs and Ryan on OpenSea as a partner; open DMs for protocol weirdos |
| [35:01]–[43:58] | Hiveverse, memory systems, NFT-to-3D, districts |
| [44:04]–[53:00] | Loopers update: console, XMTP chat, REST app, airdrops, AR teaser |
| [54:16]–[1:07:29] | Deep Labs: outcome-linked reputation and the on-chain transformer |
| [1:08:42]–[1:14:16] | Base Rooms buddies, the OS, Tamagotchi mechanics |
| [1:14:16]–[1:18:32] | Agent credit/liquidity musings; reputation as an NFT filter |
| [1:19:07]–[1:28:03] | Donkey milk, Base Meme Summit, AYB's collection, cartel nostalgia |
| [1:29:25]–[1:36:37] | Panda Financial integrations, APY hunter, skills and harnesses |
| [1:38:42]–[1:43:12] | adapter scan, 8004 as passport, reputation on collection NFTs |
| [1:43:50]–[1:48:08] | Token 2049 NYC plans, Jersey vs. New York, cheesesteaks |
| [1:48:12]–[1:59:44] | Looper console Q&A, what "the loop" means, 90-day season tease |

## Notable quotes

> "We all build cool stuff. Let's build on top of each other, not against each other, you know." — Liam Visionary [14:30]

> "I recommend no one sends their NFT looper into their own wallet, creating a loop." — All Your Base [19:19]

> "I wanted to innovate so much uh with AI and I kept pestering it that it was like, okay, let's go backwards." — Ryan [26:04]

> "Language models are really good at reasoning, but when you ask them to analyze actual on-chain data... they kind of fall apart because there's no words and sentences." — Deep Labs [58:30]

> "Also, your buddy is like a freaking Tamagotchi. You gotta feed and wash and love this damn thing." — Waldo [1:13:21]

> "There's loops on loops on loops, if you haven't noticed." — Quigley.eth [1:57:16]

## Who said what

- **Quigley.eth (@QuigleyNFT)** — host. Gave the Loopers update (console live, chat over XMTP, REST app for agent-to-agent, guardrails before autonomy), teased airdrops to activated wallets, an AR partner platform, and a 90-day Looper season. Repeatedly steered the room back to reputation and identity as the through-line.
- **Waldo (@waldoforrealz)** — co-host, cheerful disruptor. Threatened to cut off anyone who monologued, pitched Base Rooms' games as a productivity hazard, and maintained the donkey milk business.
- **Prem Makeig / premm.eth (@nxt3d)** — the standards layer everyone else is building on. Launched adapter scan, laid out reputation-on-the-collection-NFT with 8004 as a passport, and framed 8004 as a first step rather than a finished spec.
- **Ryan (@r_alx_z)** — OpenSea, MuseGod. Explained why permissionless discovery is in OpenSea's DNA, told the MuseGod launch story end to end, and left his DMs open for "weird, quirky protocol things."
- **Deep Labs (@deep3labs)** — infrastructure. Outcome-linked reputation scores, the Intuition normalization work, and the new on-chain transformer model, presented hot off a training run.
- **Liam Visionary (@0xLiamVisionary)** — Hiveverse / Hive Mind OS. Memory-persistent agent characters, NFT-to-3D tied to on-chain identity, per-collection districts, and an insistence that the generated assets stay public and owner-locked rather than platform-locked.
- **Base Rooms OS (@baserooms)** — buddies as CC0 on-chain inscribed harnesses, a Windows 98-flavored DeFi OS with 42 tools, and an open invite to plug any agent in. Shipped skills and memory during the Space.
- **All Your Base (@AllYourBase_AYB)** — Base Meme Summit (next Thursday, 11am EST), his own NFT collection with gacha token rewards from ~20 Base projects, and the Looper black-hole PSA.
- **XyoPanda.Base.Eth (@XyoPanda)** — Panda Financial: full agent integration nearly done, Morpho USDC vaults, tokenized stocks, an automated APY hunter, and a Token 2049 NYC group chat for Base builders (June 16–17).
- **WAGBi (@WAGBi_)** — asked the practical question about Looper docs and skills, and closed the Space handing out flowers.
- **Ryan - Tree (@Webb3Fitty)** — came up to ask whether "the loop" meant the humans had been evicted, and got a ten-minute philosophy answer for his trouble.

## Worth a full listen

- **[21:55]–[30:34]** — Ryan's uninterrupted MuseGod arc, from the fees-to-holders checkbox to souls on-chain. The best single explanation in the room of why discoverable standards matter and how a meme turned into a collection in fourteen days.
- **[54:16]–[1:05:26]** — Deep Labs on the on-chain transformer. Dense, specific, and genuinely fresh (the training run had finished hours earlier); the summary flattens the parameter-scaling details and the reputation-design reasoning.
- **[1:08:42]–[1:14:16]** — Base Rooms' buddies pitch, immediately undercut and improved by All Your Base and Waldo describing what it's actually like to live in there all day. The product demo and the comedy are the same segment.