@Octop3s The annoying part is that most team will keep falling into the same traps instead of just locking funding to stables and running targeted short campaigns that stick
I think Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO was right to frame the transformation of AI not simply as a question of what AI can do, but of how quickly society reorganizes itself around what AI makes possible.
The logical part is that adoption and transformation are not necessarily the same thing.
People tend to adopt technology before they fully understand how much it can change the systems around them. We use the technology first, and only later begin to redesign the structures that were built before it existed.
That is why the point about intelligence initially being bottlenecked by other factors is important.
AI may become extremely capable while still operating inside institutions, regulations, habits, infrastructure, and political systems that were designed for a world where intelligence was much scarcer.
But those constraints do not necessarily remain permanent.
Perhaps intelligence becomes cheaper, more accessible, and increasingly capable, it can begin to work around some of the limitations that previously depended on scarce human expertise.
This is where I think the transformation becomes much more interesting.
The question may no longer be whether people will adopt AI. People will adopt useful technology, especially when the decision is largely individual.
The harder question is what happens after adoption.
What happens when millions of people are using systems that can perform tasks, solve problems, generate ideas, analyze information, and accelerate decisions at a level that previous systems were never designed to accommodate?
At that point, simply adding AI to existing structures may not be enough.
Some structures may have to change because the assumptions they were built upon have changed.
And this is where I agree with Dario's broader point about society reorganizing itself over time.
We should not expect the transformation to happen all at once.
Technology can arrive quickly while institutions move slowly.
Individuals can change their behavior faster than governments can change policy. Companies can change their workflows faster than entire industries can change their structures. Consumers can adopt a technology long before society has figured out the larger consequences of its adoption.
That gap matters.
It means that the early stage of AI may look less revolutionary than it actually is.
We may simply see people using AI to write, code, research, design, analyze, and automate tasks.
But underneath that adoption, the economics of intelligence could be changing.
And once intelligence itself becomes less constrained, the effects can begin to spread into other areas that were previously limited by the availability, cost, or speed of human expertise.
That is why I think the question is not only whether AI will transform the world.
It is how fast it happens, what gets transformed first, and how quickly society recognizes that the old structures are now operating under completely different conditions.
The upside is enormous.
But so is the possibility that we underestimate the transition simply because adoption looks ordinary at the beginning.
Obviously the most transformative technologies will not initially look like revolutions They may look like tools that people gradually adopt--until the world around those tools has to change.
A founder once told me
We had over $300k on stablecoin
…but I still couldn’t sleep.
Crypto was supposed to remove the friction of financial anxiety, instead I discover most founders accidentally created a new kind of financial anxiety
A few months ago, I spoke with a founder running a fully remote team across Netherland, Argentina, Vietnam, Portugal and Dubai.
Most of their revenue entirely in stablecoin, and from the outside everything looks successful, obviously complete operational chaos behind the scene.
Observing different solution request I have gotten from different founders, I noticed their treasury is split across binance, MetaMask, with one cold wallet, one cold founders phone, and random exchange account
The payroll is handled in spreadsheet, all the approvals happens in telegram chat, we know when one mistake of a wrong address and all funds disappear forever.
Honestly Zengo business start making a lot more sense, not as “another wallet.”
But as infrastructure for crypto native companies trying to operate like real businesses.
Let talk about how most team operate,one person approves wallet,approves transaction, manages payroll, stores recovery phrases and moves all treasury funds which is less scalable.
At zengo, instead of relying on fragile seed phrases, they utilize MPC security, which implies that there is no single seed phrase sitting on someone’s laptop waiting to become a disaster.
And for teams managing serious treasury size, that matters a lot…
The more interesting part is the operational layer Because this is where most crypto tools completely fail businesses.
Zengo Business introduced a ; • multi-user treasury access • approval workflows • role based permissions • transaction visibility • controlled access systems
So finance operations stop depending on one exhausted founder.
I went deep into thread and several founder discussions recently and the same fear keeps repeating
•How do teams securely manage crypto together?
•What happens if one person loses access?”
•How do we approve transactions safely?”
•Why does crypto treasury still feel disorganized?”
•Why are we running finance ops like a Discord community?
Most business only focus hard on the survival system and pay less attention to the treasury system, and that exactly what zengo focus on.
Basically…
they’re trying to remove the fear layer from crypto operations. And that fear layer is VERY real, Especially after hearing stories of
• lost seed phrases • insider mistakes • approval confusion • inaccessible treasury funds • messy payroll operations
Zengo fixes all of this…
Most businesses don’t leave crypto because of market conditions and I believe the project that will dominate the higher phase of crypto
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upon investigation, Plasma figured out that my BRL transfer is still stuck with @minipay.
MiniPay customer support is honestly one of the worst experiences i’ve seen. Plasma, even though they aren’t at fault, has continued responding as quickly as possible.
the chat button provided by their banking partner, Noah, is pretty much dead. when they ask you to submit your email, there’s not even a confirmation that your message was received.
this is why i think projects should spend less time focusing on the next reward campaign or cashback offer and more time improving customer support.
i even reached out to MiniPay on Twitter five days ago and still haven’t received a response, while my money remains stuck.
small inconveniences are what make you lose customers.
even though i’m not using these payment rails for my own daily needs, i’m running these tests on behalf of people who may want to use them in the future.
i’m acting as an intermediary to understand how everything works so i can make recommendations based on actual experience.
and with poor customer support, i honestly can’t recommend a product.
because if i run into a problem and can’t get help from anyone, i’d rather not use the product in the first place.
hope the team sees this and does the needful.
i also noticed that BRL payments are no longer showing on Plasma. maybe there’s an explanation for that?
later today i’ll be publishing an article comparing the different virtual accounts i’ve tested, what they offer, the fees involved, and which one i’d personally use.
either way, gm 🤝