AI Chatbots Revolutionizing Web3 Communication: Unveiling the Power of Relay!

13 Jun 2023 · 33 min
PoolTogether Community Podcast

13 Jun 2023 · 33 min

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In this episode of the PoolTogether Community Podcast, host Millie Yearley interviews Sean W. Brenn, founder of Relay, about the evolution of Web3‑enabled AI chatbots. Sean recounts his personal journey from early Bitcoin experiments, through MakerDAO, Infura, and a series of airdrop‑driven governance roles, to the realization that Web3 identities lacked a native, encrypted communication layer. This insight led to the creation of Relay, initially a DAO‑focused control panel, which later pivoted to building on top of XMTP’s end‑to‑end encrypted messaging protocol and ENS‑based identities. The conversation dives into how Relay embeds project documentation into GPT‑4 via vector embeddings, enabling AI‑driven developer relations and customer‑support bots that can answer technical questions, retrieve white‑papers, and even guide users through on‑chain actions such as Uniswap trades or ENS registrations. Sean explains the concept of bidirectional token flows, where bots can both receive and send crypto (e.g., POAPs, referral rewards) based on user interactions, and discusses privacy, regulatory, and hallucination mitigation challenges. He outlines a broader vision of an “agent economy” where autonomous AI agents operate 24/7 on Ethereum and XMTP, each powered by custom data, prompts, and communication layers, ultimately acting as personal financial assistants, onboarding guides, and decentralized service bots. The episode wraps with a preview of upcoming product releases—a make‑your‑own bot widget for startups, two undisclosed enterprise partnerships, and a summer launch of a Relay chatbot suite for DevRel and user onboarding. Sean also shares resources (Relay’s Mirror blog, AI‑Web3 landscape surveys) for listeners interested in building at the intersection of AI and crypto.

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