Why can't AI be separated from Crypto?

The economic entities of the future will shift from "humans" to "AI Agents." Since you grasp the trajectory of AI development, you should know: AI has no physical body, cannot open a bank account at a counter, cannot be recognized by facial recognition, and cannot provide utility bills for KYC.

The Essential Demand of the Payment System (The Payment Rail):
When an AI needs to purchase data, rent computing power, or hire another AI, what does it use to pay?
It can only be used with currency that follows the principle of code is law.
Conclusion: Cryptocurrency is the only legal tender in the AI native world. The explosion of AI means that the frequency of on-chain transactions will increase from "human speed" to "machine frequency", which is a ten-thousand-fold increase in transaction volume.

Decentralized Supply of Computing Power (DePIN):
The larger the AI model, the more thirsty it is for GPU resources. Centralized cloud services (AWS, Azure) are too expensive and carry the risk of a single point of failure.
AI needs a global, permissionless computing power market for training and reasoning.
Conclusion: Those projects that provide decentralized computing power (DePIN) are essentially the "State Grid" of the AI era.

Anchoring the Truth (Zero-Knowledge Proofs):
The stronger the AI generation capabilities, the more rampant Deepfake will become on the internet. In the future, 90% of the videos, images, and articles you see may be fake.
How do humans survive? We need an immutable ledger to prove "this is real."
Conclusion: Blockchain will transform from a "speculative tool" into the "trust foundation" of human civilization.