AI Agent: Crypto's non-gambling narrative

Whenever I write articles about AI+Crypto, there are always voices saying, Does AI need Crypto? What else does Crypto besides Gambling? It is hard for you to imagine what hearing such seemingly correct and unnutritional words mean to someone who firmly believes in "technical narrative + long-termism"?

1. I don’t want to retort, because if I based on the logic of “only money theory”, not only AI, too many narratives such as DeFi, NFT, Gamfi, Metaverse that appeared in the previous cycle have not achieved the expected results, and the basic hype is far greater than the actual application value. So you said that AI doesn't 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 for human Internet technology. It completely changed the linkage between users and the Internet, and the demand for active prediction from keyboard input to natural language understanding and greatly expanded the upper limit of human productivity. Therefore, AI is a historical opportunity that takes all industries such as web2+web3+ traditional tracks. Why are everyone trying to use AI, but Crypto alone can’t do it? Moreover, Crypto's combination and reorganization in production relations such as computing power, algorithms, and data can indeed meet and supplement the natural shortcomings in the AI ​​web2 environment.

It can only be said that AI is still in the period of innovation and exploration, and the application of AI Agent has not yet become a necessity in the general public's life. Therefore, the "dispensable" innovation has begun, and the optimization of production relations contributed by Crypto is too advanced, giving people a feeling of being useless. But this is not the case. AI Agent applications involving privacy in some vertical fields are still driven by Crypto;

3. I keep calling for, AI Agent is a collective redemption of all the old narratives in Crypto history, Why? The fundamental core is that AI Agent directly points to applications, just like many online to offline models conceived in the era of Internet portals, which are only when mobile Internet mobile phones are popularized.

In my opinion, AI Agent is the moment when Crypto's "mobile Internet application" bursts. Only when AI Agent is fully popularized can the various distributed data contributions, distributed computing power aggregation, distributed traceability incentives, distributed DePIN edge computing and other visions outlined by Crypto will be truly realized. At that time, many old narratives such as ZK, modularity, chain abstraction, BTCFi, layer2, etc. will truly be useful.

Because if the chain infra block rent-seeking party is an AI agent fine-tuned by everyone, the consensus architecture of chain decentralization, transparent and secure can truly play the value of the interoperability of AI agents, which is a height that cannot be achieved by AI technology innovation at the web2 level. Just like even though some people still criticize the meaninglessness of decentralization, Crypto's little penetration of institutions and national power in DeFi, RWA and other tracks can be seen by everyone, and there is no need to discuss anything anymore.

I fully agree and understand that the diversity of the Crypto world, whether it is short-termism or long-termism, are just different pursuits of you and me. Of course, the ways to get rewards and punishments are also different. Although, in the short term, long-termists are very hurt, even a market with absurd and chaotic high PVP requires the existence of a group of Ah Q who are well versed in the method of spiritual victory.

Because the market always needs the existence of idealists.