Contrarian Viewpoint: AI agents don't need Blockchains, but Blockchains can't do without AI Agents

In this era, AI Agents will seamlessly solve the long-standing user experience (UX) challenges that have hindered Blockchain from going mainstream. However, before reaching this stage, the entire industry will go through a period of chaos. The article is based on tweets by Mark, compiled and translated by Depth. (Background: Depth》 Seven Research and Applications of AI Agents) Unpopular view: AI Agents do not need Blockchain, but Blockchain cannot do without AI Agents. Now, Agents have emerged, and in my opinion, we may only need a few months to enter a 'decomplexification era' in the encryption field. In this era, AI Agents will seamlessly solve the long-standing user experience (UX) challenges that have hindered Blockchain from going mainstream. However, before reaching this stage, the entire industry will go through a period of chaos. Teaching AI Agents to identify 'good trades' is difficult. No pain, no gain - to make intelligent agents truly practical in the encryption field, the entire industry may experience a 'self-collapse' before that. Just as the democratization of meme coins (such as pump.fun) once triggered a meme coin supercycle, significantly changing market Liquidity distribution and leading to months of market consolidation. The same phenomenon will also occur in the field of intelligent agents. With the cost of developing intelligent agents getting lower and lower, there will be tens of thousands of intelligent agents coming online one after another. Initially, these intelligent agents will mainly connect to social media, becoming tools for one-way transmission of Tokens, for sharing, promoting, inducing, or mocking. However, this model will soon become boring. Subsequently, intelligent agents will start executing simple transactions on-chain. Although it sounds like a good thing, in reality, teaching intelligent agents how to identify a 'good trade' is very difficult (you can ask for anand iyer's opinion on this). We are entering a chaotic stage. Therefore, we are entering a 'chaotic stage'. In this stage, low-value or low-complexity intelligent agents will frequently trade low-value assets on low-cost Block spaces. These intelligent agents will manipulate some surface indicators, interfering with our ability to distinguish on-chain real data. Crypto Twitter will be filled with content generated by intelligent agents, and cheap Block space will also be heavily occupied. The entire industry may fall into chaos. Many people will start to fear, doubt, and be uncertain about intelligent agents, but this is not a bad thing because developing truly excellent intelligent agents takes time. Twelve months ago, developers of intelligent agents in the encryption field had difficulty even getting venture capital attention - I understand this deeply because I supported many teams at that time. Back then, everyone's interest was focused on infrastructure (such as AethirCloud was one of the beneficiaries), and the potential of intelligent agents was not widely recognized. The potential of AI Agents. Now, we are in the midst of a new technology hype, a technology that is transformative for the entire industry. So what will happen next? If low-cost Block space is occupied by a large number of intelligent agents, what does that mean for old-school Blockchains like ETH? Will 'luxury Block space' become a trend again? Will intelligent agents be distinguished by the Blockchains they use? How will the user interface (UI) in the encryption field evolve when intelligent agents can aggregate information and serve as tools to transfer assets from point A to point B? Where is the difference between paid intelligent agents and free intelligent agents? How can we expand the reasoning capabilities of intelligent agents cost-effectively? From the perspective of intelligent agent applications, how can we design appropriate business models to cover these costs? Unexpected surprises. For me, the most interesting part of these new trends is the unexpected surprises. Who would have thought that a platform used for crowdfunding DAOs - Daos.fun (daos.fun, baoskee) would become a catalyst for the development of asset management intelligent agents. Looking back, this seems obvious, albeit somewhat ahead of its time, but it has indeed injected much-needed momentum into this trend (ai16z.ai and Shaw have also contributed to this). So, what do intelligent agents need next? Nevertheless, I firmly support 'building things that people will actually use,' rather than continuing to stack more infrastructure. This is also why I like the trend of intelligent agents - it is user-centric. We are all excited about this technology because it can manage our assets more efficiently than we can ourselves. Finally, please support the developers of intelligent agents - although they may face fear, uncertainty, and doubt, it's okay because this is the beginning of a brand new Web3. In this Web3, user experience (UX) is no longer an obstacle to creating excellent things. Do Your Own Research (DYOR), but stay optimistic - the future will be very exciting. Related reports: Interpreting Crypto+AI Agents: The real breakthrough for the next billion users? What is Virtual Protocol? How to capture market attention with 'AI Agents,' an inventory of ecological Tokens Seven popular AI+MEME projects: AI Agents are the focus of speculation, with a market capitalization mostly in the k-thousand range. 'Contrary view: AI agents do not need Blockchain, but Blockchain cannot do without AI Agents' This article was first published in Dynamic BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain news media.