The users of blockchain will be AI agents, NEAR co-founder says
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin predicts AI agents will become the primary users of blockchain, acting as the front end.Summary
Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, asserts that the next major shift in technology will see AI agents becoming the primary users of blockchain, with AI serving as the front-end interface and blockchain as the abstracted back-end infrastructure. He argues that this means the technology should be hidden from users, criticizing current blockchain explorers as a sign of failure to abstract complexity. Polosukhin believes crypto's role will be to provide neutral financial rails—settlement, ownership, and programmable incentives—for AI systems that manage daily tasks like payments and asset allocation. He also criticized DAOs for being unbounded and failing to solve core problems, and noted that rampant speculation from memecoins is damaging the industry's reputation with serious AI researchers.
(Source：CoinDesk)