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[vanitas @vanitascap]

Answering the latest Vitalik crypto x ai post because I felt frustrated about a few things

I agree on the 4 places where it makes sense, namely:
1. AI participates in crypto.
2. AI as better crypto UX
3. AI in smart contracts
4. Using crypto to build AI

Where it falls short though is the 4th point.
It’s by far the less detailed and highly focused on cryptography-enabled features.
He briefly mentions “using crypto incentives to incentivize making better AI" as @opentensor does and considers it “long-term but intriguing”.

Let me tell you, it’s neither long-term nor intriguing. It’s already here and it’s mind blowing. Let me explain:

1. Crypto is about social coordination systems.
Crypto is the future of finance? No, it’s the future of coordination, and finance is a coordination game. Don’t fade DAOs, DePIN, DeSci, or Network states, it's what crypto is about.

2. Building AI is about coordination.
Today's best foundation models are built by big tech companies, namely OpenAI, Meta, Google, Amazon. They are the GPU-rich, they are the ones benefiting from economies of scale.
But we’re getting better at mechanism design and coordinating ourselves on chain - first was miners coordination on bitcoin, followed by DeFi on ethereum that introduced more complexity, and now we've reached a point of no return…

Wit @akashnet providing GPU access to everyone, @Filecoin and @Jackal_Protocol providing the storage, Bittensor providing incentives for open AI models, and @OKP4_Protocol building the orchestration layer for multi-party AI workflows, the decentralized AI horizon opens.

3. Coordination at scale will outpace economies of scale.
Today, one hundred GPU-rich engineers in California have built the best models.
Tomorrow, and I won’t be surprised to see it happen in less than 5 years, hundreds of thousands of data providers and engineers worldwide will contribute on the same projects.
Private data will be accessed at scale through incentives while minimizing trust requirements.
Engineers contributions will be coordinated on-chain with the help of AI.

Vitalik posted this graph:
But Crypto and AI don’t merely have synergies.

Crypto is the foundation for AI to thrive.

Crypto is the body; AI is the mind.

The potential is so far-reaching that it will spark the biggest speculative mania humankind has ever seen.

And yes, the 4th point is where value will aggregate the most, even in the short term, because “during a gold rush, sell shovels”.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications:

https://t.co/ds9mLnshLU

[Axone @axonexyz]

Axone Mainnet is officially live.

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No trading. No speculation. Just utility from day one.

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🗓 Protocol activated
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[Hoss @HOSS_ibc]

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[Axone @axonexyz]

The new testnet is live! 🚀 Huge thanks to all validators for achieving lightning-fast consensus in just 7 seconds! ⚡️ Running:

v10 of axoned
v0.50.9 of @cosmos_sdk
v2.1 of @CosmWasm

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Blazing speed, ready for action! #blockchain #cosmos #IA

[Axone @axonexyz]

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[jayjay @javalry1]

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🧵 A Thread:

[Mike @TrustlessMike]

@davidfeiock @ModusOpre We need more cosmos depin

[Ticotic @ticotic_123]

A week in the life of @ArnaudMimart & @7h3_360l355_d3v

[Axone @axonexyz]

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[Balaji @balajis]

A DAO could buy 23andMe and fully decentralize the data.

- Nothing stored on central server
- 100% on user hard drives
- All stats calculated via secure multiparty computation or the like
- Use zero knowledge to maximum extent

Probably a group out there which can do this now.

[vanitas @vanitascap]

not in the way you think though

[RYAN SΞAN ADAMS @RyanSAdams]

AI is going to kill copyright this decade and blockchain will replace it as the primary way creators get paid for their work

[vanitas @vanitascap]

@VitalikButerin a bit sad it didn't dive more into "AI as the objective of the game" without cryptography to encrypt data.
It's a rabbit hole of its own

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications:

https://t.co/ds9mLnshLU

[Cλris @7h3_360l355_d3v]

Done.

https://t.co/1GkbXKW5Ym

[EigenCloud @eigencloud]

Cosmos. Ethereum. EigenLayer.

[vanitas @vanitascap]

@zmanian and collaborative ML model building & governance 🤝

[vanitas @vanitascap]

i'm a shameless $BAD holder

marketcap ratios at floor valuation:
BAYC = 534M
$APE = 479M
ratio: 0.9

MILADY = 52.6M
$LADYS = 49.6M
ratio: 0.94

BADKIDS = 34M
$BAD = 1.4M (considering 5000 bk claim)
ratio: 🤔🤔🤔

[Badcoin @BadkidsCoin]

>3100 Badkids have claimed the $BAD Drop.
2 days left.

[vanitas @vanitascap]

@AriaHuginn @OKP4_Protocol it will come

actually, the purpose of the protocol is to enable collaborative AI - to share any data, train any model, on any infrastructure

you'll even be able to earn rewards for contributing to a model

for OKP4, or anything else 🤝

[vanitas @vanitascap]

@viktorfischer @NTmoney osmosis, stargaze and all cosmos chains have instant finality, that's why it's called the interchain

eth unfortunately doesn't, but it'll come https://t.co/8AYATCmYNM - and we'll build workarounds anyway until it comes

[vanitas @vanitascap]

@andyyy share anything
on your own terms
to create knowledge
and get rewarded

trust + incentives = 🚀