Coinbase Ventures's predictions for the future of Crypto x AI

*Coinbase Ventures's predict a future where AI agents will have their own crypto wallets to autonomously transact, access decentralized compute and data resources, or leverage stablecoins and/or their own token economy to pay humans and other agents to complete tasks necessary for their overall objective function. However, they do not believe crypto / blockchain technology is required to advance capabilities or solve emerging challenges in every layer of the AI tech stack. 

*Crypto x AI stack can be segmented into the following layers:

(1) Compute: networks focused on supplying latent GPU compute resources to AI developers

(2) Data: networks that enable decentralized access, orchestration, and verifiability of the AI data pipeline

(3) Middleware: networks/platforms that enable the development, deployment, hosting, and orchestration of AI models / agents

(4) Applications: user-facing products (B2B or B2C) that leverage onchain AI mechanisms