Sam Altman Named The Protocol's Most Influential for 2025 Amid AI and Crypto Integration
Sam Altman was named The Protocol's Most Influential for 2025, highlighting the growing integration of AI into daily life and the cryptocurrency sector.
AI has had a transformative impact on crypto by guiding trading decisions, assisting developers, and facilitating hacking activities. Moreover, the intersection of AI and crypto holds promise for addressing AI's challenges related to compute demands, privacy, and identity through the use of blockchain technology.
The rising demand for AI computing power has increased interest in globally distributed networks. Blockchains are proposed as a means to coordinate marketplaces for AI compute resources, ensuring fair pricing, security, and confidentiality.
Decentralized AI networks such as Bittensor function as open computation marketplaces, utilizing the TAO token to reward contributors and employing subnets to handle specialized tasks.
Cryptocurrency incentives are considered essential to coordinate thousands of independent machines, helping to counter concerns about centralized AI power and gatekeeping. The early governance model employed by OpenAI exemplifies such concentration.
To address privacy concerns, proposals for private or user-owned AI emphasize the need for decentralized computing architectures, private AI implementations, decentralized model training, and tamper-proof blockchain logs that comply with privacy regulations.
World Network's World ID exemplifies identity verification innovations, using an iris-based proof-of-humanity system with the Orb device to generate a unique cryptographic code for online verification without revealing personal data; iris images are deleted after use.
Additionally, Coinbase has initiated a universal basic income pilot leveraging blockchain infrastructure to explore crypto-driven economic models. Industry forecasts anticipate that 70% of current AI projects may fail while 30% are poised to be transformative.
