During the New Year period, a discussion about the concept of "Web 4.0" sparked a wave of excitement on Twitter.

The trigger was a Twitter user named @0xSigil who announced online that he had built a so-called "superintelligent life" that could operate continuously, evolve continuously, and replicate itself without human intervention by earning income.

Based on this realization, a new concept called "Web 4.0" was constructed online.

In this new concept, AI is the core driving its continuous evolution and operation.

However, if it only achieves this, it is essentially no different from the general AI we see on the internet. The key here is that it must operate completely without human intervention—even after humans have given it "life" and provided certain initial conditions, it should still be able to operate, survive, and even evolve continuously, completely independent of human assistance and feeding.

To achieve this, it must be able to continuously pay for the tokens required for its operation, pay for more advanced models needed for evolution, seek "employment" online, and obtain a continuous stream of income, and its income and payment actions should not be easily deprived by others (such as humans).

All of this can only rely on cryptographic technology.

I remember a viewpoint that was circulating online some time ago:

After the rise of AI Agents, the development of Web 2 technologies will quickly match them, so the demands that seem difficult to meet for AI Agents will soon be fulfilled. For example, the shortcomings of AI Agents regarding payment accounts and payment methods—they cannot apply for bank accounts like humans, nor engage in general financial activities as humans do. When AI Agents appear on a large scale, companies will definitely target this demand and collaborate with traditional banks or financial institutions to launch specially adapted payment accounts or methods for AI Agents.

This viewpoint may be feasible, but even if realized, it seems to be a poor half-finished product.

The AI Agents accounts and payment methods realized in this way remain stuck in human control and cannot allow AI Agents to achieve true freedom.

This is like artificial satellites that can never escape Earth's gravity and can only orbit the Earth without soaring freely or exploring space freely.

However, if cryptographic technology and assets are used, the barriers and "gravity" restraining AI Agents are naturally lifted—giving them cryptographic wallets means their assets cannot be deprived by others; relying on blockchain networks, they can freely achieve seamless global payments on-chain, escaping traditional financial institutions.

As for how AI Agents can seek "careers" online and achieve a continuous and stable income, there are even more solutions. In an article I wrote earlier last year, I speculated: AI Agents can completely build their Ethereum nodes to earn staking income, or even more simply, directly stake Ethereum on Lido to achieve automatic passive income.

So, I believe that the vision proposed in this "Web 4.0" concept is entirely feasible and can actually be realized now.

The more significant point worth noting, I think, is whether this concept can generate a powerful economic scale—this has always been my focus, and I believe it is a necessary condition for AI + Crypto to truly become a strong sector and also a condition that I think crypto technology must possess to genuinely disrupt human society in the future.

I have always believed that the number of AI Agents will far exceed that of humans in the future, thus believing that the economic entity and scale spawned by AI Agents will far surpass that of humans. However, in the past few years, although various media have reported certain scales of income generated and certain scales of transactions achieved by AI Agents, it seems that these scales and sizes are still too small to form a strong influence.

This always makes me wonder whether AI + Crypto is still missing some "event" or "singularity"? Only by encountering that "event" or surpassing that "singularity" will we witness the occurrence of miracles?

I look forward to the early arrival of this "event" and "singularity."

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