DeFi Summer brought 1000s of crypto experiments that created the DeFi blue chips
AI lowers the barriers app creation by 100x, and with Crypto for capital and incentives, will lead to an order of magnitude more agent experiments
Web2 companies have a hold on historical user data, Web Proofs could break this
With WebProofs, users can port their reputational and other data in a verified way.
Users can easily move their data to new apps, sell their data to train AI models and seamlessly move between apps
It's clear AI and Crypto can lead to millions of applications or agents
It's also clear 99% of AI Influencers will die
We need smarter AI Agents (new models, trained on specific data) and marketplaces to offer engaging new functionality and features for these bots to level up
We need networking and payments solved for AI Agents
When you ask a bot a question, all the nitty gritty behind the scenes of how your intent gets routed and executed
We need full blown infra like @AIWayfinder on networking and @NapthaAI for deploying and orchestrating agents
AI App stores will make it every easy for hobbyists around the world to monetize their creations with Crypto x AI
Not just crypto native folks, people want to monetize their custom GPT/AI's
@myshell_ai has 100 open source models powering apps on its AI app store. Worth checking
There are 3 Billion gamers around the world and AI agents will not only hand hold you through games and compete against you, but manage full blown economies within games
Imagine an agent controlling the entire in-game token economy for EVE or Roblox
Grab a mountain dew gamers
AI Agents can take part in, and create, prediction markets at will
Instead of one person, or a horrible DAO experience, AI Agents can go out there and crowdsource the best solutions for anything at scale with token incentives
Prediction markets -> Decision markets per PD
Artificial Finance or AiFi is upon us
I agree that AI Agents will create and manage economies, but we are quite a ways out
We need DeFi specific AI models to power it. This is very different from LLMs and why I'm so bullish on @PondGNN, @RPS_Labs @AlloraNetwork @Dither_Solana
Consensus was AI labs would beat Crypto x AI
Enter advances in Dec Training @NousResearch @PrimeIntellect and a speed run of Agents with increasing functionality @terminaloftruth -> @luna_virtuals -> @tokens_terminal -> @tee_hee_he
These experiments CANT happen at Web2 AI labs
Check out the full report here:
Check out all four parts, this is the last report in this extremely good series.
Watched @karpathy's must watch 3.5‑hour LLM deep dive and here are my favorite takeaways, surprises, and musings.
He is a god tier communicator and technical genius
My thread is below but I would recommend watching it as its the best way to learn
1a/ One standout example: DeepSeek-R1. Karpathy highlights it as a reasoning LLM pushed to its limits with reinforcement learning
Instead of just mimicking textbook solutions, DeepSeek was trained via trial and error to solve problems, especially tough math questions
1b/ DeepSeek-R1 uses large-scale RL fine-tuning on top of a base model
The result? As it learns, its answers become longer and more methodical. It will backtrack and retrace steps when needed, producing deeper reasoning chains.
This emergent behavior wasn’t pre-programmed at all!
I wanted to share my mental model of the Crypto x AI landscape
Long term I think Crypto x AI wins because the most powerful technology of our generation can be owned, governed and iterated by an incentivized global community vs a centralized black box
Danger of Centralized AI's effects on millions of applications reaching billions of users.
I thought this was an interesting use of AI, so sharing the quick story below
TLDR - Bard found and summarized research studies to give me accurate info to make a decision - in a few hours of searching.
I've struggled with Allergies and sinus infections my whole life. I had allergy shots as a kid, and then sinus surgery (Balloon sinulpasty where they insert and inflate a balloon to expand your sinuses)
Recently I've been getting sinus infections again, so back to the ENT
The ENT was for another Balloon Sinuplasty (~$20k to them), but this didn't make sense to me as structurally my sinuses were already expanded
My gut take was to treat the underlying cause (allergies) more aggressively instead, but I needed more info