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Why blockchain will unlock the full potential of AI.
Imagine if you didn't have a bank account or a credit card. How would you participate in the economy?
You wouldn’t be able to create products by using other people's services because you can't pay them. You wouldn't be able to receive payments for the value you create either . Well that's exactly the problem AI faces today:
Generic AI agents can't hold a bank account because they can't pass KYC checks. They can't use credit cards because they would fail fraud checks. AI agents need access digital native payment rails without censorship and proof of humanity and this becomes even more important when agents are interacting with other agents.
Blockchain models are the answer.
With blockchain technology, AI agents can own a web3 wallet to hold funds, execute transactions and transfer funds to other people or agents.
While general-use LLMs are unable to access real-time blockchain data, understand sophisticated blockchain concepts or perform actions onchain, blockchain AIs can do all three.
Blockchain AIs will let agents behave autonomously and participate in the economy — unlocking their full potential.
That's why thirdweb built Nebula, the most powerful AI to read and write to every EVM chain — with advanced blockchain reasoning and execution capabilities.
Nebula is an AI that can access and transact on 2500+ EVM blockchains using thirdweb's industry leading infra. Nebula is built on thirdweb’s proprietary blockchain model called t1 that has access to billions of transactions, millions of smart contracts and 2500+ EVM chains.
Unlike generic models, t1 understands web3 primitives like contracts, wallets and transactions with unparalleled accuracy.
With Nebula, AI agents can send/receive money, create vouchers & receipts, use escrows, interact with defi primitives, mint tokens, read transaction history, and directly interact with wallets — all without intermediaries.
Furqan Rydhan is a visionary entrepreneur and technology leader, and is the Founder and CEO of thirdweb and founder of Founders Inc.
Furqan has spent the last 4 years building thirdweb, the complete web3 development stack which is used by over 50,000 developers every month. Through his accelerator Founders Inc, Furqan has also funded and supported numerous AI startups, including Lexica, Leap and Kuzco.
With Nebula, Furqan is applying 20+ years building in technology and 10+ years building in AI to accelerate the next generation of crypto apps — powered by thirdweb’s world-class blockchain infrastructure.