Source: Daoshuo Blockchain

Since the launch of Ethereum, countless project teams have tried to build an encryption ecosystem on the blockchain such as "WeChat", "Baidu", "Google", "Youtube"...

This attempt started as early as the ICO wave in 2017 and continues to this day. Not to mention anything else, there are a lot of similar applications on the Lens protocol today.

However, it is a pity that among all these applications, none of them can really break out of the circle.

This is also a question that has troubled me for a long time.

Are decentralized, permissionless applications really not that attractive?

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

The reason I can think of later is:

We have too many social relationships embedded in WeChat, and it is difficult for us to break away from these relationships just to pursue "privacy" and "freedom" Go try a new app.

There is so much valuable information stored in Youtube that it is difficult for us to break away from this information source and create a rival information library purely for the pursuit of "privacy" and "freedom".

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It is precisely because of these long-preserved information resources that it is difficult for us to get rid of the current information circle and network of relationships, and we have to continue to sell our identities. , sacrificing our privacy.

But have these decentralized, permissionless applications really sunk and languished like this? Are you going to be this tepid forever?

I always thought there was something wrong with this, but couldn't find a strong explanation.

However, when I read the article the day before yesterday (the link is at the end of the article), I read the following paragraph:

"If we hope that AI Agents can "perform tasks autonomously" ”, then it must have an “autonomous identity” and exist as an independent individual. So the question is, if it is an independent individual, where is the ID of this AI Agent registered? How does it manage its own finances? "

"In Web2, this is a headache: independently registering an ID will most likely be impossible in recent years; not having an ID means that you cannot open a bank account. If the ID and bank account still belong to the "owner", this AI Agent cannot actually be said to have an "independent identity". ”

“As can be seen from the above examples, AI Agent must be an independent individual, have an independent financial account, and can “perform tasks autonomously” in order to have greater room for development. Otherwise it will still be in the bot stage. ”

“It is almost impossible for the Web2 world to register an ID for an AI Agent and open a bank account in a short time. Fortunately, weThere is a Crypto on-chain world. In the Crypto world, it is very natural to register an onchain identity and an onchain wallet for the AI ​​Agent. ”

After reading this paragraph, I thought about the possible application scenarios of the above decentralized, permissionless applications--their real and largest users are not Humans, but AI agents.

I have shared in previous articles: I think crypto assets are more prepared for AI agents because AI agents cannot implement network payments like humans. Use your ID card to open a bank account, and there is no way to verify your identity like humans do. Social identity, so decentralized, permissionless cryptoassets are just right for them

But at the time I didn’t extend this idea to broader decentralized applications, especially what I mentioned above. When decentralized, permissionless content is applied,

Now that we review this idea, many issues will become clear.

Future AI agents can not only be realized through encrypted assets. Payments and transfers between each other can be made through these decentralized Content applications (such as "decentralized WeChat", "decentralized YouTube", etc.) realize the interaction, publishing and sharing of information.

Of course, the form of those applications is not the same. It must be like the so-called "decentralized Youtube" and "decentralized WeChat" we see today?

This is possible, but not necessarily

Because these are currently available. Apps are truly designed with our human habits in mind. We still have no way of knowing how AI agents will communicate more efficiently and smoothly.

No matter what the form of those applications may be, I believe that information sharing between AI agents will be possible in the future. , interoperable applications must be based on blockchain and require no permissions.

Therefore, when AI agents explode, the next wave of outbreaks must be a wide range of blockchain-based public chains. Applications: They are decentralized, censorship-resistant, and permissionless.