Machines,
Not Humans to Drive Crypto's
Mass Adoption?
Machines, Not Humans to Drive Crypto's Mass Adoption?
AI agents are set to outnumber humans on blockchain• Информационные технологии » Информационно-коммуникационные технологии » Информационные технологии и телекоммуникации » Базы данных » Публичная база транзакций » Блокчейн
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transformative shift in crypto's future, according to some.
By Vince Dioquino
Jan 8, 2025 Jan 8, 2025
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Fresh off of NVIDIA's groundbreaking announcements on AI at CES 2025 on
Tuesday, the crypto industry is abuzz with ideas. Observers see a radical
shift emerging in crypto: the next wave of users might not be human at all.
Leading crypto builders and investors are predicting a future where AI agents,
not people, dominate blockchain• Информационные технологии » Информационно-коммуникационные технологии » Информационные технологии и телекоммуникации » Базы данных » Публичная база транзакций » Блокчейн
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we'll get there and what it means for everyone else.
"We will see a billion agents onchain before we see a billion humans onchain,"
predicts Twitter user Evan, an ecosystem lead at Monad and former McKinsey
analyst. "Crypto has inherently unfriendly UX for human users. Agents do not
care about this friction."
The predictions come amid a surge in AI agent development for crypto, with
platforms like Virtuals already generating $60 million in revenue.
Crypto's latest meta has also seen certain assets from projects such as
AI16z skyrocket, following demand for AI agent tokens.
Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital, points to changes in
accessibility, where "instead of having to raise millions of dollars,"
developers could "launch an application with $10,000 of AI cloud compute."
This democratizes who can build and deploy blockchain• Информационные технологии » Информационно-коммуникационные технологии » Информационные технологии и телекоммуникации » Базы данных » Публичная база транзакций » Блокчейн
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an on-chain renaissance," Qureshi claims.
But the implications extend beyond just cost efficiency.
Raising ethical concerns about authentication and trust in digital
interactions, Qureshi predicts that "chatbots will start hiding that they are
AIs" and "pass as humans."
Qureshi claims that most current "AI agents" in crypto aren't what
they're supposed to be, at least in their current versions. "These things
are not really agents. These are chatbots with meme coins attached," notes
Qureshi.
Crypto and AI go hand in hand
In September last year, Delphi Labs, a project focusing on Web3 protocol
R&D, published a thesis on how AI could impact crypto in the coming years.
While AI could be a powerful resource "impacting society deeply," it also
risks being "solely controlled by big tech and the state," Delphi Labs'
paper states.
Delphi Labs claims crypto "can prevent this monopoly" by "delivering genuinely
better solutions for developers and users.”
The transformation is already beginning, with some projects like Wayfinder
developing functions for AI agents to interact autonomously with blockchain• Информационные технологии » Информационно-коммуникационные технологии » Информационные технологии и телекоммуникации » Базы данных » Публичная база транзакций » Блокчейн
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networks.
Should the average Joe be concerned?
Yuk Hui, a contemporary philosopher trained as a software engineer, thinks
not.
Machines such as AI agents won't "completely replace human beings"
because doing so "may take longer than the extinction of the human species,"
Hui wrote more than three years ago.
Instead, "machine intelligence will transform humans [...] beyond their own
imagination."
Edited by Sebastian Sinclair
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