Silicon Valley 101 x RootData Annual Summit Roundtable Discussion: AI + Crypto will drive the next generation of the digital economy, and the key to success lies in addressing specific pain points.

ChainCatcher news, Kite AI product head Yusuke Muraoka, PIN AI co-founder Ben Wu, Virtuals Protocol growth and community head Christoper Johnson, and Momentum BD Wesley attended the Silicon Valley 101 x RootData annual summit held in Silicon Valley on October 5. They engaged in an in-depth discussion during a roundtable titled “AI+Crypto: Building the Future of the Digital Economy,” covering hot topics such as the value of AI+Crypto integration, the future of decentralized AI, and killer applications. Virtuals Protocol rise and community leader Christoper Johnson believes that the successful integration of AI and Crypto lies in simple applications that solve specific pain points. He is optimistic about the collaborative business model of autonomous agents and believes that decentralization is key to resisting monopoly by giants. PIN AI co-founder Ben Wu advocates that the future should be fully controlled by users over their personal AI, breaking the data silos of centralized platforms by constructing data wallets, allowing personal AI to become the “coordinator” that schedules various specialized AIs. Yusuke Muraoka, the head of Kite AI products, believes that the next generation economy will be driven by AI agents. The urgent task is to establish a secure and controllable payment infrastructure to enable trustworthy micropayments between agents through verifiable authorization proofs. Momentum BD Wesley stated that the core of the next wave of digital assets lies in bringing trillion-level traditional assets (such as stocks) on-chain, and the current main obstacle is the mismatch between slow regulation and rapid technological innovation.