in the words of @balajis, "AI makes everything fake and crypto makes it real again" crypto gives us a path to a more trustworthy internet and decentralized proof of personhood is how apps / services can treat humans as first-class citizens on an internet increasingly built for agents and dominated by AI-generated content
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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.
check out the other crypto x AI use cases our team is excited about
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a16z11.6.2025
Crypto provides a counterbalance to AI systems, decentralizing something that tends to centralize. So what are builders actually working on? And what challenges still need to be solved? The @a16zcrypto team shares 11 use cases at the intersection of crypto x AI — from universal identity for agents to keeping vibe-coding apps in sync and more. Here is their list … and the opportunities still up for grabs 👇
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