12 Potential Entrepreneurial Directions in the Field of AI and Blockchain Article: Wyatt Lonergan, 0xlaguna Compilation: AididiaoJP, Foresight News The future dominant economic entity will no longer be a traditional company, but a software system that can operate independently 24/7, continuously create value, and continuously compound interest growth. This type of system requires minimal human intervention and is not only more durable than the creator, but also more efficient. We call this type of system a 'money machine'. We are witnessing the largest infrastructure upgrade in the history of the Internet. This upgrade is driven by the intersection of two major technological trends: blockchain and artificial intelligence. The Internet has realized the programmability of information, the blockchain has realized the programmability of value, and now AI is realizing the programmability of decision-making. Each industrial revolution has unlocked new modes of production - assembly lines have scaled manufacturing, printing has scaled knowledge, and email has scaled communication. The stable currency, token assets and autonomous agents are unlocking the next dimension: they will become the infrastructure of the new Internet financial system. In this system, the operation of autonomous capital will amplify human potential on an unprecedented scale. The future dominant economic entity is no longer a company in the traditional sense, but a software system that can operate independently 24/7, continuously create value, and continuously compound interest growth. This type of system requires minimal human intervention and is not only more durable than the creator, but also more efficient. We call this type of system a 'money machine'. Observing the way people use @ openclaw every day, it is not difficult to realize that we are in the midst of a new industrial revolution. Nowadays, any individual or enterprise can build autonomous agents with clear goals and run them on daily devices. This means that any great idea, no matter how grand, can now be implemented through programming. When we see early proxy companies starting to generate revenue online, the scale of possibilities presented is unprecedented, and all of this is happening in real time. The reason is that until recently, economic activities have always relied on human participation. A transaction requires the presence of both the buyer and seller - at least through phone contact. Capital is idle at night, and markets and banks are closed on weekends. Professional knowledge is locked within individuals, and individuals have limited working time. The emergence of companies is precisely to address these issues - to enable capital to transcend the lifecycle of owners and the limits of individual capabilities. But even companies have their limitations. The money machine will endow humans and businesses with unprecedented economies of scale. Agents work tirelessly, without geographical restrictions, and do not require a salary account. They can operate across time zones and serve thousands of customers simultaneously, making autonomous decisions around the clock. They can complete negotiation, execution, and settlement on a global scale in milliseconds. The bottleneck is never the knowledge itself, but the people or companies trapped in it. Soon, money machines will become the fundamental unit of economic organizations, just as having a legion of agents will become a standard for founders. The relevant infrastructure is being built in real-time: development frameworks such as OpenClaw, stablecoins such as USDC and withAUSD, wallets such as Privy, blockchains such as Arc, Olana, Tempo, and Base, on chain financial protocols such as aave and Morpho, and identity systems that enable agents to participate in economic activities as principals. These are exactly the directions we hope to invest in. The integration of the Internet and finance has been brewing for 30 years, and the money machine is the product of the final integration of the two. Startup Direction 01: Proxy Equity and Investment Banking Proxy Economy has been running on tokens. As agents continue to discover new opportunities, how can they identify, price, and distribute these opportunities in a scalable manner, and make them transparent to capital? We need infrastructure that can provide capitalization for proxy businesses, such as partial ownership of production-oriented AI systems, revenue sharing tokens, and on chain proxy DAOs (which is the true vision of DAOs) - to transform money machines into investable and tradable assets. If agents become dominant economic entities, ownership of agents will become one of the most important asset classes in history. Reference project: @ legiondotcc02 · With the surge in the number of agents, computing power will become a commodity that needs to be effectively priced, traded, and distributed. We need financial infrastructure that matches GPU capacity, such as spot markets, futures, and options, to use computing power as a raw material for the proxy economy, achieving standardization, risk transfer, redeemability, and other functions. Reference project:@ OrnnExchange、Silicon Data、Computer Exchange、Pluto Trade、@computeindex03 · The cross-border fund transfer issue with the liquidity operating system has been resolved, but the last mile of exchange remains a bottleneck. In regions such as Nigeria, Kenya, and Mexico, payment service providers generally face a shortage of US dollar liquidity - the process of settling stablecoins into local fiat currency is slow, labor-intensive, and costly. As agents and smart contracts begin to automatically route payments on a global scale, this bottleneck will become the ceiling for the development of the entire agent economy. We have the opportunity to build a programmable short-term liquidity infrastructure that can be directly integrated into the payment process, underwriting hidden risks that are difficult for traditional finance to access. The agency service market can be understood as Craigslist for agents. This is a marketplace platform where individuals and businesses can deploy their professional knowledge into profitable agency services (such as legal consulting, research analysis, financial modeling, creative production) for other agents or humans to hire. The reputation mechanism is built into the protocol. This will achieve a large-scale democratization of entrepreneurial spirit. Reference project: @ crunchDAO05 · Proxy Identity and Reputation System Trust is the foundation of business. To facilitate transactions between agents and between agents and humans, there must be a verifiable persistent identity layer. We are looking for decentralized identity and reputation credentials designed for AI agents: verifiable performance records, authorization scope, proof of behavior, and trust scores accumulated on the chain over time. 06. The rate of return, also known as API rate of return, still follows the working hours of banks. Need brokerage account, wire transfer, T+1 or T+2 settlement cycle. This model is not designed for software, which is about to become the world's largest capital allocator. Enterprises and agents entering the token economy need to obtain returns - not during business hours, not through brokerage accounts, but as programmable API calls available 24/7. Reference projects: Yield.xyz, @ superformxyz07 · Credit infrastructure agents require credit to facilitate transactions, obtain working capital, and achieve scale operations. But agency is not a legal entity. We have the opportunity to build a new type of credit primitive based on stablecoins, smart contracts, and card infrastructure, extending funds to agent controlled cards and wallets, equipped with programmable repayment and risk control mechanisms that do not require human signatures. The compliance infrastructure for tokenized securities, including stocks, bonds, and funds, is currently undergoing tokenization. What is missing is the compliance layer (such as KYC/AML, transfer restrictions, investor verification, reporting, and regulatory interoperability) that enables tokenized securities to flow at blockchain speed without violating securities laws. When agents begin to autonomously manage investment portfolios, execute trades, and allocate capital, compliant tokenized securities will become the asset layer required for their operations, without the need for human brokers in between. Reference projects: @ DinariGlobal, @ 0xPredicte09 · Proxy payment authorization and expenditure control Proxy requires autonomous payment, but humans need protective barriers or programmable authorization layers - such as card and wallet expenditure limits, counterparty whitelists, multi signature approvals - placed between proxy intent and transaction execution. This is equivalent to redesigning enterprise expenditure management, specifically built for non-human entities to operate on card and stablecoin tracks. Reference projects: @ ponge-wallet, @ privy10 · Stablecoins Treasury and Cash Management As stablecoins become the default settlement layer globally, various enterprises from startups to multinational corporations require treasury infrastructure to manage stablecoin and fiat assets: earnings optimization, foreign exchange, payroll, supplier payments, and regulatory reporting. Agents will exponentially improve the efficiency of this infrastructure - automatically balancing the treasury, routing payments to the most economical channels, and completing reports without the need for a finance team. This is a CFO tool suite reconstructed for the era of agency. 11. Cross chain settlement and interoperability for agents: Agents do not care which chain they are on. They care about cost, speed, and finality, but liquidity is fragmented. The abstraction layer can provide chain independent execution capabilities for agents: routing to the optimal location and settling on the optimal chain, while agents (and their human operators) do not need to manage cross chain bridges, encapsulate assets, or gas tokens. Reference projects: @ LayerZero_Cre, @ ubyx12 · Data Monetization and Traceability Network Proxy requires a large amount of data consumption (such as market data sources, proprietary research, behavioral signals). We need infrastructure that enables data producers to monetize access permissions in a programmable manner, with on chain traceability, usage tracking, and micro payment settlement capabilities. For example, a decentralized data marketplace where agents are buyers and human experts are sellers.