Author: pan, founder of TP Wallet
For AI Agents to truly become a "widely deployable autonomous software," there are two core capabilities:
① Composability
② Verifiability
These two points are precisely what traditional Web2 cannot provide, but cryptocurrency systems inherently possess.
1. AI needs composability, and composability must be built on verifiability
The future of AI Agents is not about a single model, but rather:
- Automatically calling other services
- Composing other Agents
- Automatically writing code
- Automatically testing
- Automatically executing decisions (including actions involving funds)
This is called Agentic Composability.
The problem arises:
If one Agent calls another Agent, but you cannot verify that the other party executed as expected, then the entire automation ecosystem cannot close the loop.
Web2's infrastructure (API + SaaS) cannot provide such strong verifiability because:
- APIs are black boxes
- Data can be tampered with
- Execution results cannot be proven
- Permissions rely on centralized audits
- Money cannot be settled automatically
In other words:
Web2 Agents cannot fully trust another Web2 Agent.
Thus, automation stops at the "demo level."
2. Cryptocurrency provides the "verifiable foundational layer" that AI lacks
Crypto provides three major capabilities needed for the future ecosystem of AI:
① Verifiable Execution
Smart contracts are transparent and provable.
ZK proofs allow complex off-chain executions to be verified.
AI can confirm "the other party indeed did as I said."
② Verifiable Identity
Decentralized identity DID/Key, Agent code itself can be signed.
This solves: who did it, whether it is trustworthy, and whether it has been tampered with.
③ Verifiable Value Transfer
Smart contracts support:
- Automatic deductions
- Automatic payments
- Multi-party collaborative profit sharing
- Collateral and penalties (slashing)
- Bond mechanisms
This allows AI to manage and allocate funds directly without relying on institutions.
This is something Web2 cannot achieve.
3. AI programming requires "self-testing," and when it involves funds, it needs "automatically verifiable"
Anthropic's recent acquisition of Bun is a signal:
AI is about to upgrade from "automatically writing code" to a complete cycle of "automatically writing → automatically testing → automatically running → automatically fixing."
However, once AI runs code automatically and lets that code directly impact the real world, such as:
- Executing transactions
- Managing budgets
- Paying API fees
- Participating in economic activities
It must have a verifiable financial security system provided by cryptocurrency.
Otherwise, AI is just a toy and cannot engage in the real economy.
Crypto allows AI to:
- Automatically penalize for "execution errors"
- Automatically reward for "good contributions"
- Automatically settle during multi-Agent collaborations
- Automatically settle without human trust
This is essential for the future AI Agent economy.
4. Summarized in one sentence
AI makes software autonomous; Crypto makes autonomy trustworthy. Without the verifiability of cryptocurrency, AI Agents cannot operate on a large scale in the real economy.
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