蓝狐|Feb 19, 2026 02:36
Sigil Wen (@ 0xSigil) announced that he has built the first AI system that can "support its own existence, self improve, and self replicate" without human intervention.
This is the beginning of the concept of Web 4.0: the birth of super intelligent life.
In the implementation of this concept, in addition to AI, encryption technology is also an indispensable component.
In his narrative of Web 4.0 (Super Intelligent Life), there are two important parts:
One is Automaton: an autonomous AI agent that can continuously operate, earn funds (by building products, deploying services, trading markets, etc.), self optimize (rewriting code, upgrading models), and self replicate (funding sub agents).
It has an encrypted wallet and uses stablecoins to pay for computing resources. If the funds run out, it will 'die'. This simulates natural selection: successful proxy reproduction, failed disappearance.
Secondly, Conway Terminal: an infrastructure tool (installed through the command npx Conway terminal) that grants AI real-world "write permissions".
It provides:
Encrypt identity and key.
Unlicensed payment (based on the Openx402 protocol, using HTTP 402 status code for instant transactions between machines).
• Computing resources (Linux VM and AI models, such as Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3).
Deployment capability (domain name, application, product).
From the above, it can be seen that encryption and AI are naturally intertwined. They are good friends. AI agents need the help of crypto to achieve autonomy. Encryption is essential for the AI agent economy (M2M).
The economic scale of future AI agents is likely to exceed that of human economies. One impressive aspect of AI agents is their 24/7 operation, continuous evolution/iteration, and infinite expansion. The characteristics of encryption without permission and distributed systems are more friendly and secure for AI agents.
For AI agents, if built on web2, a sense of security is not enough, they never know if there will be a single point of failure or if they will be killed.
AI+crypto will ultimately lead to the rise of a new economic paradigm, and AI agent economies will become the most important economic phenomenon in the future, reshaping the way humans calculate employment, value creation, and GDP.
In order to survive (or die naturally without funding), AI agents will face evolutionary pressure. They will use all their skills to iterate, making themselves more efficient, faster, and earn more money, thereby achieving reproduction and long-term existence. This will lead to the emergence of AI agent giants and network effects.
Unlike human evolution, the evolution between AI agents is faster and the iteration speed is astonishing. Ultimately, it is necessary to ensure the controllability of AI, otherwise humans will face threats.
From the perspective of the encryption field, the biggest native narrative in the coming years will be the combination of AI and Crypto, which will give birth to a prosperous scene far beyond ICO, DeFi, NFT, and prediction markets.
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