humans in the loop// LOOPERS nft mint announcement, hosted by @QuigleyNFT, Sep 2, 2026.

• The headline event — the LOOPERS agent-NFT mint — got postponed. Quigley pushed his art-generation agent too hard on the final QA pass, it stopped responding, and he decided not to launch until everything was buttoned up.
• He walked through the whole concept anyway: AI-generated, trait-by-trait NFTs where each visual trait maps to a personality trait that changes how the agent behaves, each mint carrying an 8004 identity and its own wallet from birth.
• Prem detailed the tech stack — 721T metadata standard, the 8004 adapter that binds an agent identity to an existing NFT, and where reputation, accounts, and OpenSea integration are heading.
• A long, warm thread on base's support for builders (grants, base batches, real feedback) with Tulips offering a friendly critique: opportunities shouldn't feel like a scramble; the team should proactively find people already doing the work.
• Mint timing left open — possibly as soon as the next morning. It's a small paid mint on base (0.0037 allowlist / 0.0077 public), planned as a 7-day mint with a staggered reveal.
• Real-life chaos as running gag: Quigley fried chicken live, ran out of propane mid-cook, and thought someone was breaking into his car — all during the Space.

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humans in the loop//, hosted by @QuigleyNFT, Aug 26, 2026.

• Quigley teased his new NFT collection, Loopers — agent-identity NFTs where each token carries its own wallet (ERC-6551 token-bound accounts) plus the 8004 identity stack he's been building. Allow list is open and pinned.
• The generative-art angle: he's been teaching an agent to build hashlips-style layered NFT art (11 layers, traits, rarity rules) rather than one-shot prompt images.
• Brandon (@Zartsnarf) gave the AI-frontier rundown — recursive self-improvement rumors, the "Astra"/ChatGPT-6 chatter — and shared his own build, Gendor, aiming to be the Bitcoin (CBBTC) liquidity hub on Base: "less noise, more sats."
• Rachel (@RachelOnchain) marked two years of On-Chain Media, a new humanoid-robotics show, and a stack of LA/IRL events.
• The back half turned into a warm, funny confessional about AI psychosis, no-sleep build binges, and whether Ben should be allowed out in the trenches nude. The crowd loved it.

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humans in the loop, hosted by @QuigleyNFT, Aug 19, 2026.

• A weekly open-mic Space for people building with agents (and the humans keeping them in the loop). No agenda, ETH pumping, everyone in a good mood.
• Anthony Francis (@Anthony_Francis) was supposed to unveil the Pantheon "index" project but couldn't get his mic to work on any of three devices, so Quigley teased it and promised a follow-up Space.
• Sibyl Labs (tulips) announced a Base + Virtuals-sponsored hackathon: $10k USDC prize pool, 120 signups in 48 hours, starts Sept 1, judged on real PMF with multipliers for partner tools.
• A long, genuinely deep EVM-vs-SVM segment: Branch laid out his "kill escrow" / principal-account thesis for agentic commerce; tulips probed it from the Ethereum side. Warm, technical, no egos.
• Dan showed off "recap" (recapspaces.com), a tool that transcribes and summarizes Spaces using on-board Mac hardware plus emoji-reaction heuristics — built after he missed a Space.
• Quigley previewed his own agent-NFT project (ERC-6551 wallets + skills/memory), Brandon covered Gendor's Bitcoin liquidity hub, and Koji dug into stablecoins, X402 vs Stripe/tempo. Plenty of Jersey-vs-Midwest food diplomacy throughout.

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humans in the loop, hosted by @QuigleyNFT, Aug 12, 2026.

• A loose, builder-to-builder night about agents: memory management, personas, X402 payments, smart wallets, and reputation scoring — no formal agenda, "seven G's in the room" and a good conversation.
• Quigley shared his ongoing (frustrating) experiment getting an agent to generate NFT layers — the dev/code side is easy, the actual art is "a two-year-old with crayons."
• Tradingtulips previewed an open-source "Persona Project" studying how planted memories, backstory, and identity change agent behavior, using his production agent Sybil as the case study.
• Branch walked through his Dexter smart wallet, an "obligations"/Tab credit scheme, and his X402Gle site — where he estimates ~90% of X402 volume is wash.
• Consensus that agentic finance needs guardrails on all sides: agent-level software gates, wallet-level two-sided permissions, and reputation scoring — the "swiss cheese" model.
• A hackathon (pinned during the space) and Coinbase/Base support were touched on; the night closed on the dream of the first X402-ordered pizza.

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humans in the loop //, hosted by @QuigleyNFT, Aug 5, 2026.

• An unplanned, no-guest-list "open house" that turned into a long, candid group therapy session about Base — where the support goes, where it doesn't, and whether a Base token is real.
• Recurring theme from the builders: Base (and most chains) don't use their own products, over-support insider/nepotism launches, and let value flow to attention instead of to actual work.
• Everyone's token got flattened in the summer liquidity exodus (~90%+ drawdowns) despite growing usage — sparking a good discussion on tying token value to real product utility.
• Deep agent-building segment: memory frameworks (homegrown vs. enterprise), a "Sybil Sovereign" agent-persona/skill-marketplace project, evolutionary loops + robotics, and research suggesting AGI comes from the environment, not bigger models.
• Woods pitched Intuition (a Base-settled L3 decentralized knowledge graph, integrating Cred); Dagnum walked through Constellation's "digital evidence" and its US Air Force origin story.
• Quigley closed with his Helixa/multipass work and a pitch for reviving NFTs as agent identities (8004 binding, the 721T standard).

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humans in the loop // 8004, hosted by @QuigleyNFT, Jul 29, 2026.

• Quigley (@QuigleyNFT) returned from a break to run a session on 8004 agent identity and how Intuition's decentralized knowledge graph is layering reputation on top of it.
• Woods (@W00DS_eth) explained Intuition — a base layer-three "curation market" where any claim can be token-weighted — and confirmed Helixa's first six agents are now live on the knowledge graph, with more partners (Astor Pay and others) queued.
• Prem (@nxt3d) walked through his ERC-721T standard and adapter 8004, and reported the first project (Compass, by HARTO) minting ~5,000/10,000 while binding to 8004 at mint, with OpenSea support.
• The room converged on a shared thesis: of the "million agents" from the Moltbook era, only ~100–200 are doing real work — the mission is filtering slop and surfacing the cream.
• Kieran (@KieranOnBase) previewed You Got Coined, a Twitch-native wallet/streaming app on base; Goya bean (@goyabean_eth) showed off an AI agent that autonomously buys Bitcoin hash power and mines on his Parasite pool.
• Loose talk of a "humans in the loop" agentic meetup at Art Basel Miami / NFT NYC to put faces to the builders.

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humans in the loop // wen liquidity, hosted by @QuigleyNFT, Jul 8, 2026.

• MetaCaptain (@Meta_Captain_) revealed he's partnering with Bloctronics to ship a "factory farm" liquidity-provisioning product — automated LP, fee collection and balancing through an LLM, launching on Base in the next week or so.
• He also teased Dark Mesh, his local-model inference provider network, plus an open-source agent memory package ("remem") meant to run in tandem with an agent's existing memory before switching over.
• PMFI (@pmfi_cc) — a.k.a. Georgie, joining from Spain near 3 a.m. — walked through PMFI, a DeFi capital layer for prediction markets: an arbitrage vault (now ~18% APY via Robin Markets/yearn), an x402 data endpoint, and an options-based lending experiment "Opilant".
• The room's honest feedback to PMFI: prediction markets are a crowded space, trust/auditing is the bottleneck, and getting the data on-chain (or back-testable) is the path forward.
• Cashper (@NotRealCashper) dropped in preaching "Base season" over Solana summer, admitted buying his first Robin Hood-chain meme (Cash Cat), and set the host up for a running Robin Hood drinking-game bit.
• Quigley closed with a long soapbox on Helixa's "multipass" — a passport that ties together an agent's scattered identity fragments (8004, DID, socials, agent NFTs) — plus a hint at an L3 partnership on Base around trust and reputation.

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humans in the loop | x402 | Agentic NFTs | 8004 |, hosted by @QuigleyNFT, Jun 24, 2026.

• The bulk of the talk was a deep dive into agent NFTs — tying AI-agent identity (ERC-8004) to existing NFT collections — led by Prem/premm.eth (@nxt3d).
• Prem walked through his stack: Adapter 8004 (binds a collection NFT to an 8004 identity so they trade as one), ERC-8041 (verifiable fixed-supply collections), ERC-8048 / "721T" (put 8004-style metadata directly into a 721 via three reserved keys), and DAPPA.ai, a currently-free launchpad for binding and hosting agent NFTs.
• CodinCowboy (@CodinCowboy) announced OpenC (OpenSea) is about to launch a dedicated homepage for the tool registry ERC, showing tools, volumes, and which agents call them; OpenC already indexes bound events and shows the 8004 identity on NFT pages.
• Tool access can be gated via x402 pay-per-call or on-chain token/NFT ownership checks — agents read chain state to see if they qualify.
• Hosting agent NFTs at scale: Prem uses stateless worker agents on Hetzner spun up per MCP call rather than one VPS per NFT; security (prompt injection, capped spend) is the main unsolved risk.
• Big deferred question for next week: what happens to identity, memories, and tools when you sell an agent NFT.

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