On November 25, in an interview with Tencent's "Qianwang", Ethereum co-founder Vitalik expressed his views on the intersection of Crypto and AI industries. He stated:
"Crypto can be a game, where smart contracts can execute game rules more securely, and AI can participate in this game. If only humans participate, the efficiency is sometimes not high enough. For example, the prediction market, I've played a lot on Polymarket this year. I found that the quality of their results was not very high 4 years ago, but much higher this year than 4 years ago. Why? One reason is that there is more liquidity. Last year it might have been $1 million or $10 million, this year it might be $100 million or $200 million. But I also found that even in areas with small liquidity, the answers are also quite good. So it's very likely that there is AI participating now. The reaction speed of AI is very fast. A person needs to be in front of the computer 24 hours a day, looking at every news every minute and second. But an LLM, you let it run, and it can do it by itself. I think there will be more examples in the future, possibly in the social domain, possibly in other domains. Crypto is a secure underlying layer, and through Crypto, a game can be built, ensuring the fairness of the game rules. The role of AI is to participate."
In addition, he mentioned: "If you want to see how Crypto can save the world? It's not possible with Crypto alone, but Crypto + some other things. What is Crypto + ? The first possibility is Crypto + Decentralized AI; the second possibility is Crypto + a technology that can replace AI."
Finally, he believes: "If the only thing we do is issue coins and create exchanges, this industry will fail. Before this year, the transaction fees were too high, some important technologies were not mature, account security issues were not solved, privacy issues were not solved, and many problems were not solved. So before this year, our industry did not have enough technology to create applications that ordinary people can participate in. The only successful application is DeFi, because DeFi can make more money. This year, we finally started to solve these problems. This year is the best time to create meaningful applications."
