Author: Haotian
Whenever I write an article about AI+Crypto, there are always voices saying, does AI need Crypto? What else does Crypto have besides Gambling? It is hard for you to imagine what it means to a person who firmly believes in "technical narrative + long-termism" to hear such seemingly correct but meaningless words?
1) I don't want to fight back, because if based on the logic of "only making money", not only AI, but also too many narratives such as DeFi, NFT, Gamfi, Metaverse, etc. that appeared in previous cycles have not achieved the expected results, and the basic hype is far greater than the actual application value. So you said that AI does not need Crypto at all, and even said that all narratives are for Gambling, I really can't refute it.
2) AI is a historical leap forward in human Internet technology. It has completely changed the way users and the Internet interact, from keyboard input to the need for active prediction of natural language understanding, which has greatly expanded the upper limit of human productivity. Therefore, AI is a historical opportunity for all industries such as web2+web3+ traditional tracks. Why are everyone trying to get involved in AI, but not Crypto? Moreover, Crypto's combination and reorganization of production relations such as computing power, algorithms, and data can indeed meet and supplement the natural deficiencies in the AI web2 environment.
It can only be said that AI is still in the innovation and exploration stage, and AI Agent applications have not yet become a necessity in the lives of the general public. Therefore, the "optional" innovation has just begun, and the optimization of production relations contributed by Crypto is too advanced, which gives people a tasteless feeling. But this is not the case. Some AI Agent applications involving privacy in vertical fields must be driven by Crypto;
3) I have always called for AI Agent to be the collective redemption of all the old narratives in Crypto history. Why? The fundamental core is that AI Agent is directly directed to applications, just like many online to offline modes conceived in the era of Internet portals, which really released their potential after the popularization of mobile Internet phones.
In my opinion, AI Agent is the bursting moment of Crypto's "mobile Internet application end". Only when AI Agent is fully popularized, Crypto's vision of various distributed data contributions, distributed computing power aggregation, distributed traceability incentives, distributed DePIN edge computing, etc. will be truly realized. At that time, many old narratives such as ZK, modularization, chain abstraction, BTCFi, layer2, etc. will really be useful.
Because if the rent-seekers in the chain infra block are AI Agents fine-tuned by everyone, the chain's decentralized, transparent, and secure consensus architecture can truly bring into play the value of AI Agents' interoperability, which is a height that cannot be achieved by AI technology innovation at the web2 level alone. Just like even if some people still criticize that decentralized consensus is meaningless, everyone can see the little penetration of Crypto into institutional and national power in tracks such as DeFi and RWA, and there is no need to discuss anything anymore.
I fully agree and understand that the diversity of the Crypto world, whether short-termism or long-termism, is just a different pursuit between you and me. Of course, the ways of getting rewards and punishments are also different. Although, in the short term, long-termists are hurt, even a ridiculous, chaotic, and highly PVP market needs a group of Ah Qs who are well versed in the method of spiritual victory.
Because the market always needs the existence of idealists.
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