Have you all recently come across that USD1 event from Binance? After watching it, I feel like AI is starting to check out on its own.
The current AI agents can already use USD1 to buy gift cards, eSIMs, and various prepaid services. This is not a demonstration; it’s the first time they are spending money in reality like actual consumers.
Previously, we would place orders, and AI would help calculate the costs. Now we deploy AI, and it spends directly on our behalf. The identity of a consumer no longer belongs solely to humans for the first time.
Whether this thing will succeed is not about whether it can spend, but whether it will cause issues. @worldlibertyfi has done particularly well this time, not giving AI too much freedom, but first setting rules, limits, and requiring approval, with private keys staying local. It can spend, but won’t spend recklessly.
This point is crucial; the AI that will enter real business in the future won't be the smartest, but the most controllable. USD1 is actually designed as an economic rule layer specifically for AI.
The first batch of AIs that can spend money on their own has arrived. Moving forward, it won’t be about speed, but about who can allow AI to spend steadily, for a long time, without causing problems.
If you could have AI spend the first amount of money for you, what would you have it buy first? Let us know in the comments!