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So is the AI market, as is Nvidia, the main provider of infrastructure for Jensen Huang and the coming AI boom. If so, Huang's keynote at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month provided a very clear picture of where the industry will find the most value in the boom we continue to expect. A roadmap was shown. This roadmap clearly demonstrates the power of agents, and Huang says that future waves of agents will make IT departments almost identical to HR departments.
The agent AI discussion at CES 2025 definitely caught my attention. Two years ago, I wrote a whitepaper outlining how agent AI is critical to powering the long-anticipated next wave of the Internet: Web3. Agentic AI has practical applications for potentially billions of users in the same way that Netscape was able to become the first portal to the legacy web and the rest of the Internet we use today. We have the power to provide value.
However, we should not assume that everything we consider “tomorrow's technology” will advance in the same way. This is especially true for blockchain and AI. Blockchain and AI have already been unique and distinct vehicles of innovation, both conceptually and practically, for quite some time.
But the parallel is that just as the smartphone has become an endpoint greater than the sum of important technologies such as network computing, personal computing, and mobile phones, when combined, AI and cryptocurrencies each that it can be significantly greater than the sum of its parts. Similarly, as PCs, connected PCs, and smartphones become more than just personal tools, they become extensions of users and their brains, so AI smart agents could also become even greater extensions of our brains. . But for agents to do that, they need to be able to work on a personal scale.
Sending: open source, distributed, peer-to-peer rather than server-client
At the moment, even with popular and powerful individual technologies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LLM-based chatbots, and text-to-art generators, there is no real “Netscape moment”, i.e. No gateway has yet achieved the following. It heralds a new era of large-scale and widespread consumer adoption.
Over the years, it has become clearer that the best use cases of both are coming together, as the strengths of information automation combine with the strengths of the personal, decentralized, and human-first ethos of cryptocurrencies. There are already some rudimentary versions of agent AI integrated with cryptocurrencies, but these are mainly just proof-of-concept memecoin chatbots.
For AI agents to work at a scale where anyone can have an effective personalized agent on their behalf, they rely on the old computing model of servers (at a centralized provider) sending to clients on a network. is not possible. We need to continue the blockchain revolution started by Bitcoin and build an open source, decentralized, peer-to-peer infrastructure.
Effectively building AI at scale under this relatively new model that is still evolving will help people understand the benefits of decentralized technology as it is applied to things like this, creating a snowball effect. It's also an opportunity. Not only that, but it's also cheap, making it easy to both build and expand. But more importantly, it gives users the power and motivation to create that building.
Incentive: Owner, not product
In the online era, people have come to realize that if they don't pay anything to a centralized provider, they have become a commodity. Big tech companies are doubling down on this strategy, continuing to collect more and more user data to support increasingly inferior products, while these companies continue to grow and focus on their original mission (which, again, I don't know if I can repeat). (what Cory Doctorow called the expression). at Family Outlet).
Not only that, but the past decade has also shown that these companies can be shut down by governments or have their policies and functions changed on a whim, based on who is currently in power. The only thing that hasn't changed is that you are not the one making decisions about your data and how it is used, or how it is used to deny you basic services. Deplatforming and unbanking can happen in just one election.
Decentralization is key to keeping data away from special interests, and so is tokenization. Tokenization can be used to weed out advertisers and other parties who want to exploit the treasure trove of data that ultimately becomes a private agent. The webmail and calendar features offered by companies like Google pale in comparison.
Even in just the past six months, the industry has woken up to the potential of tokenized agents and is building towards it. Many companies developing new agents are attaching tokens so that anyone can own a piece of it. The entire process is completed with a DeFi trading pool set up to accelerate the presence of new agents.
As many companies and governments seek to centralize the power of AI or discourage open source development, we are confident that incredibly powerful user-centric technologies will be accessible to individuals through all available options. We need to ensure that we are empowered. Significant advances in AI technology and LLM over the past few years, combined with blockchain decentralization principles established over a decade ago, provide a way forward. In doing so, we may be able to simultaneously unlock the incredible potential of these technologies, empowering users and restoring faith in the power of data and networks.
