BREAKING DOWN THE CRYPTO AI SPACE

We already know say Crypto AI na major narrative for 2025. …but wetin be ‘Crypto AI’ sef?

Dem get plenty tins wey dem dey build – but we go focus on the three key pieces of the space wey we think you go hear plenty about for 2025.

1. INFRASTRUCTURE

AI infrastructure na the tins wey dem need to run AIs onchain. For example:

• Near Protocol dey build the world's largest open-source AI model
• Render na decentralized network of GPUs wey users fit access and use to run AI models
• Bittensor dey build infrastructure wey go allow folks deploy machine learning models onchain

2. AI AGENTS AS ENTITIES

‘AI agent’ na blanket term for AI model wey fit interact online, in real-time. the AI models wey you sabi, like ChatGPT, dey closed off from the real-time internet. Dem no fit surf the web, buy tins, respond to tweets.

Agents (or ‘agential AI’) no get dis problem – and one of the more popular applications of agential AI na creating online ‘entities’ – like those on the Virtuals Protocol.

3. AI AGENTS AS ASSISTANTS

Dis ones na the ones we dey excited about! Imagine ChatGPT-style interface, like dat of Griffain, where the AI on the other end get free reign to interact online, in real-time.

THE FUTURE OF WEB3 SOCIAL LIFE

Ideas for web3 social apps:

• Group chat where every trade someone make dey autopost to the chat
• Social feed, where you fit subscribe to someone's trading behavior (1 click and you copy all of their trades automatically)
• Fully anonymous posting service, where you need certain amount of the service token to post

Farcaster, the web3 social protocol, don already realize all dese ideas. Farcaster let anyone build decentralized social apps on its protocol – any users of those social apps get to take their followers and content (text, images, videos, audio) with dem between any app on the protocol.

So if you blow up for one Farcaster app, you blow up for all of dem! (You no go find dat kind of functionality for Instagram or Twitter - dem want own dia user data outright). …maybe dat's why dia daily user base explode last year? 👇