Crypto is welcoming its new AI overlords
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Our internet is quickly being filled with automated slop.
Blockchains are destined for the same treatment.
It’s actually been happening for years. Take active address counts: In an entirely humanly-operated onchain world, active addresses would reflect the number of real users on any particular network.
That’s obviously not the case, as Blockworks Research and the 0xResearch newsletter have already shown.
Bots, spammers, airdrop farmers and other code-controlled entities commonly wield thousands — and even tens of thousands — of addresses. By the raw numbers, those players tend to drown out individual users.
The active…
