The real issue with AGI has never been intelligence, but how to possess economic behavior.

While the entire tech industry celebrates breakthroughs in general artificial intelligence (AGI), we often overlook a more fundamental physical fact: intelligence requires a carrier, and action requires infrastructure.
Most current discussions focus on how the AGI's brain evolves, but few openly discuss where its hands and feet will be placed.
In fact, once the most powerful technologies in history gain autonomous consciousness, they will inevitably rely on blockchain structurally.
This dependence is not a matter of choice, but a necessity for survival.
Traditional financial and legal infrastructure are designed for human time scales and responsible entities.
Banks require manual KYC verification, legal contract enforcement takes months, and cross-border transfers are subject to strict foreign exchange controls.
However, an AGI agent making millisecond-level decisions cannot survive within the T+3 settlement cycle of the SWIFT system, nor can it operate in jurisdictions requiring physical signatures.
When the first fully autonomous AGI agent needs to pay high GPU inference costs or sign data sharing agreements with other intelligent agents, the only available, permissionless, and 24/7 operational infrastructure is blockchain.
This is precisely why stablecoins and on-chain payments are quietly becoming the default payment layer for AI agents.
For AI, fiat currency is a friction-filled language of the old world, while cryptocurrencies are its native tongue.
The programmable money, decentralized identities, and smart contracts provided by blockchain constitute the air, water, and soil needed for AGI to operate.
Without these decentralized primitives, AGI would just be a chatbot confined within servers, unable to become a true economic participant.
Therefore, blockchain is not just an auxiliary tool for AGI; it is the only bridge for AGI to transform from a digital ghost into a real economy.