#AIAndGameFiBoom Artificial Intelligence has been reshaping our world at breakneck speed, with ChatGPT hitting 100 million users in just two months and Nvidia hitting revenue of $32.8 billion solely in the third quarter of 2024. AI is no longer a sci-fi concept but a business necessity and an integral part of our economy. Yet despite this explosive growth, participating in the economic layer of AI remains challenging for many. Here's where AI Finance stands a chance to change the rules of the game. AiFi is a new financial framework bridging the AI economy with decentralized finance, that democratizes access to AI-related assets such as GPUs or data, creating new value streams. At the same time, it’s powering DeFi with agents and AI-enhanced applications.

Over the years, the decentralized finance community has built the foundations that made it possible for AiFi to emerge. The way DeFi and its primitives - like onchain lending - evolved enabled the industry to have an adaptable infrastructure for all kinds of assets, both crypto-native and not. Tokenization, as a process of bringing off-chain assets onto the blockchain, paved a way for non-crypto assets to boom back in 2023. Tokenized real-world assets, especially money market funds, exemplify how the integration of non-crypto assets has found a product market fit in an onchain economy. The biggest asset manager in the world, BlackRock, has dominated the crypto market at a 22% market share with its tokenized money market fund, BUIDL token, marking yet another milestone for RWA adoption within TradFi. Using DeFi infrastructure for tokenized assets has already made waves, passing over 10 billion TVL. But it’s only the beginning.