Empowering AI, Paving the Way for Value: How Crypto positions itself in the infrastructure battle before 2027?

Therefore, the x402 protocol, AI Agent payments, and on-chain AI economy are all directions in Crypto's narrative of actively embracing AI. Although this process will be slow, when AI generates massive payment demands and automated transaction demands, it will be able to keep up with the scaled growth of the AI industry and thus enjoy the dividends of AI industry growth.

Author: Haotian

In fact, both Crypto and AI are doing something to "empower" humans, but the ways and depths of empowerment are completely different. Think about it carefully:

Crypto empowerment emphasizes so-called "decentralized financial sovereignty," allowing individuals to control their assets and exchange value without relying on traditional centralized institutions like banks. This empowerment approach is "defensive," meaning it's not essential but desirable. This implies that by adhering to decentralized empowerment, the crypto industry will never be disproven.

AI empowers the world through an "exponential amplification of productivity," enabling people to do things that were previously impossible. This explains the continuous expansionary capital investment from internet giants, driving the sustained growth of AI-related stocks. This empowerment approach is "offensive," meaning that the AI industry's growth has already followed a scaling law-like growth curve.

This law tells us that the growth of AI capabilities is predictable, sustainable, and exponential. We can see that the computing power arms race, the algorithm revolution, and the large-scale popularization of agent applications are all foreseeable future events.

But Crypto is different. The growth logic of Crypto has shifted from regulatory arbitrage by capital to orderly penetration under regulatory approval. Therefore, in terms of "wild" growth alone, Crypto's growth rate is indeed, as everyone perceives, slower than AI.

It's not that Crypto has no value, but rather that its value realization speed can't keep up with the speed at which AI is changing the world.

Therefore, Crypto must make a choice: either actively embrace AI and become the value layer infrastructure of the AI Economy, or gradually narrow its expectations and "casinoize" itself, becoming a niche speculative financial market and completely detached from "value".

Therefore, the x402 protocol, AI Agent payments, and on-chain AI economy are all directions in Crypto's narrative of actively embracing AI. Although this process will be slow, when AI generates massive payment demands and automated transaction demands, it will be able to keep up with the scaled growth of the AI industry and thus enjoy the dividends of AI industry growth.

The time window is also very clear. If 2027 is taken as the time node for the emergence of AGI, Crypto must complete a wave of positioning and layout of the protocol layer before that.

Stop obsessing over "Crypto for Human" and getting hopelessly entrenched in these pirate philosophies. Clinging desperately to the lifeline of AI industry growth, you'll be considered a success if you can get a share of the pie when the AI economy fully explodes.

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