Computing platform shifts tend to evolve in couplets or triplets, often featuring new hardware, applications, and distribution innovations that propel one another forward. For example: the PC, the internet, and the web. Mobile, social, and the cloud. We think a new and powerful couplet is emerging at the intersection of crypto(graphy) and AI.

Computing platform shifts tend to evolve in couplets or triplets, often featuring new hardware, applications, and distribution innovations that propel one another forward. For example: the PC, the internet, and the web. Mobile, social, and the cloud. We think a new and powerful couplet is emerging at the intersection of crypto(graphy) and AI.

What if NFTs did more than just provide provenance and prove possession? As Dan writes in this newsletter, turning agents into NFTs would also let their holders improve their digital property.

What if NFTs did more than just provide provenance and prove possession? As Dan writes in this newsletter, turning agents into NFTs would also let their holders improve their digital property.

Our seed investment in Pluralis Research is premised on using crypto ownership to solve the resource problem of foundation AI models.

Our seed investment in Pluralis Research is premised on using crypto ownership to solve the resource problem of foundation AI models.

Agents have “memories” that allow them to record their experiences performing tasks for their principals. These experiences are unique, which makes them non-fungible. An NFT could represent an agent, and holding this NFT could provide exclusive read/write access to an associated memory slot in a trustless memory layer (functioning effectively as a “license” to these memories).

Agents have “memories” that allow them to record their experiences performing tasks for their principals. These experiences are unique, which makes them non-fungible. An NFT could represent an agent, and holding this NFT could provide exclusive read/write access to an associated memory slot in a trustless memory layer (functioning effectively as a “license” to these memories).

Good crypto x AI projects leverage the features of crypto to overcome limitations faced by AI.

Good crypto x AI projects leverage the features of crypto to overcome limitations faced by AI.