{"id":128399,"date":"2025-05-01T20:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128399"},"modified":"2025-05-01T20:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:18:53","slug":"crypto-to-accelerate-ai-adoption-longitude-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128399","title":{"rendered":"Crypto to accelerate AI adoption \u2014 LONGITUDE panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsCryptocurrency can accelerate artificial intelligence adoption by helping AI startups onboard users, according to Polygon&#8217;s co-founder Sandeep Nailwal.<br \/>\n\u201cYou can use crypto incentives and disincentives to onboard users to onboard the ecosystem players,\u201d Nailwal said during a panel discussion at the LONGITUDE by Cointelegraph event.<br \/>\nHe added that projects with effective onchain incentive structures might even \u201cbuild a better AI because you have this incentive engine that brings in developers,\u201d Nailwal\u00a0said on May 1.<br \/>\nCointelegraph\u2019s LONGITUDE is an event series that brings together leaders and innovators from the blockchain and Web3 space for exclusive discussions.<br \/>\nJoining the panel, Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of the Near Protocol, expanded on crypto&#8217;s long-term synergy with AI, forecasting that crypto-native AI agents could replace traditional web application front-ends as the primary user interfaces for Web3.<br \/>\n&#8220;We don\u2019t need applications or websites anymore. Your AI becomes the interface to computing and the internet,\u201d Polosukhin said.<br \/>\nSandeep Nailwal and Illia Polosukhin speaking at Cointelegraph&#8217;s LONGITUDE in Dubai. Source: CointelegraphRelated:\u00a0AI memecoins will become utility tokens<br \/>\nHowever, Nailwal cautioned that the rise of AI-related tokens onchain has also attracted a wave of opportunistic scams. \u201cWe know that 99% of those projects are literally token scams, but very few projects are actually trying to have some meaningful AI project,\u201d he said.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe era of Web3 AI agents<br \/>\nAI agents are expected to take on a more prominent role within decentralized communities, J.D. Seraphine, co-founder of Web3 developer Raiinmaker, recently told Cointelegraph.\u00a0<br \/>\nAccording to a report by VanEck, over 1 million AI agents could enter the market in 2025, with many of them tied to decentralized finance applications. Such agents are already reshaping the digital economy, building decentralized applications, launching tokens, and interacting with humans autonomously.\u00a0<br \/>\nAI token cumulative market cap. Source: CoinGecko\u201cAI is an extremely centralizing force. A few companies could become the warlords of the world,\u201d Nailwal said.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cThat\u2019s why crypto-native, peer-to-peer AI solutions are so important\u2014they enable privacy-preserving innovation,\u201d Polosukhin said.<br \/>\nMagazine:\u00a0Altcoin season to hit in Q2? Mantra\u2019s plan to win trust: Hodler\u2019s Digest, April 13 \u2013 19<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-to-accelerate-ai-adoption-polygon-near-longitude?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsCryptocurrency can accelerate artificial intelligence adoption by helping AI startups onboard users, according to Polygon&#8217;s co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. \u201cYou can use crypto incentives and disincentives to onboard users&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}