About the Author
John Patten is the co-founder of Treasure, where he focuses on building infrastructure and AI projects for gaming and community engagement. He entered the crypto space in 2017 and has since contributed to various projects (including Osmosis) before co-founding Treasure in 2021 as an NFT ($0.00) initiative that has grown into a decentralized game console. John is passionate about fostering community involvement and believes in the transformative power of decentralized gaming.
The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily represent those of Decrypt.
We’ve always thought of the economy as a human construct—something we build, regulate, and optimize. But what happens if this is no longer the case?
Artificial intelligence has advanced at a rapid clip since the first consumer-facing LLMs achieved rapid widespread popularity. At this point, this technology isn’t just being used to generate content or field queries; it’s beginning to transact independently and determine its own workflows. In other words, today’s most sophisticated AI agents don’t just follow commands,they make decisions based on their own learned behaviors, incentives, and self-interest.
The emerging result is a fundamentally new kind of economic reality in which AI is not just a tool, but an active, integral participant. And the key to accelerating this trend is to build more environments where AI and humans can co-create entirely new models of value exchange and collective governance....
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