As blockspace increases, the idea of the ledger of record is becoming more feasible. As AI progresses, the ledger of record is becoming more necessary. It means the only truly verifiable citations are links to onchain data via block explorers. Crypto is what AI can’t fake.
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a16z29.7.2025
.@balajis says AI is widening the verification gap. A massive number of jobs will be needed to close it. Prompting floods the world with fakes. Crypto brings back proof. “You're gonna need cryptographically hashed posts and crypto IDs ... to know the data wasn't tampered with.” In the AI era, trust has to be engineered.
A video from 2021 on the ledger of record, going into more detail. Note that it does anticipate the use of AI-based summarization of onchain data to create news.
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