Since the launch of Ethereum, countless project teams have attempted to create the "WeChat," "Baidu," "Google," and "YouTube" of the crypto ecosystem on the blockchain…

This attempt began during the ICO boom in 2017 and has continued to this day. Just looking at the current applications similar to the Lens protocol, there are quite a few.

However, unfortunately, none of these applications have truly managed to break out.

This has been a question that has troubled me for a long time.

Is it really true that decentralized, permissionless applications are not that attractive?

Are people really willing to sacrifice their phones, their identities, and even expose their faces through videos and photos to register for these applications?

The reason I could think of later is:

WeChat has accumulated too many of our social relationships, making it difficult for us to break away from these connections just to pursue "privacy" and "freedom" by trying a new application.

YouTube has accumulated too much valuable information, making it hard for us to leave this source of information just to pursue "privacy" and "freedom" to create a competing information repository.

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It is precisely because of these long-accumulated information resources that we find it hard to escape our current information circles and networks of relationships, and we have to continue to sell our identities and sacrifice our privacy.

But do these decentralized, permissionless applications really have to decline and languish? Will they remain lukewarm forever?

I have always felt that something is not quite right, but I couldn't find a strong explanation.

However, when I read the article from the day before yesterday (link at the end), I came across the following passage:

"If we want AI Agents to be able to 'autonomously execute tasks,' then they must have an 'autonomous identity' and exist as independent entities. So the question arises, if they are independent entities, where is the ID of this AI Agent registered? How does it manage its finances?"

"In Web2, this is a headache: independently registering an ID is likely impossible in the coming years; without an ID, you can't open a bank account. If the ID and bank account are still under the 'owner's' name, this AI Agent cannot truly be said to have an 'independent identity.'"

"From the above example, it can be seen that AI Agents must be independent entities with independent financial accounts, capable of 'autonomously executing tasks' to have greater room for development. Otherwise, they remain at the bot stage."

"It is almost impossible for the Web2 world to register an ID and open a bank account for AI Agents in a short time, but fortunately, we have the Crypto on-chain world. In the Crypto world, registering an on-chain identity and an on-chain wallet for AI Agents is a very natural thing."

After reading this passage, I thought of the potential application scenarios for those decentralized, permissionless applications—their true and largest users are not humans, but AI agents.

I previously shared in earlier articles that I believe crypto assets are more like preparations for AI agents. Because AI agents need to achieve online payments, they cannot open bank accounts like humans using ID cards, nor can they verify their social identities like humans, so decentralized, permissionless crypto assets are just right for them.

But at that time, I did not extend this idea to a broader range of decentralized applications, especially the decentralized, permissionless content applications I mentioned above.

Now, revisiting this idea, many questions become clear.

In the future, AI agents will not only be able to make payments and transfers among themselves using crypto assets but will also be able to interact, publish, and share information through these decentralized content applications (such as "decentralized WeChat," "decentralized YouTube," etc.).

Of course, will the forms of those applications necessarily resemble what we see today as so-called "decentralized YouTube" and "decentralized WeChat"?

It is possible, but not necessarily.

Because currently, these applications are designed according to our human habits. We still do not know how AI agents will communicate more efficiently and smoothly with each other.

Regardless of what the forms of those applications may be, I believe that the applications for information sharing and communication among AI agents in the future will definitely be based on blockchain and permissionless.

Therefore, when AI agents explode, the next wave of many sectors will certainly be a wide range of applications based on public blockchains: they will be decentralized, censorship-resistant, and permissionless.

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