{"id":962,"date":"2026-04-16T21:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/?p=962"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:14:27","slug":"ai-has-gotten-so-dominant-latelythat-even-tech-people-are-starting-to-overlook-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"AI has gotten so dominant latelythat even tech people are starting to overlook crypto."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AI has gotten so dominant lately<br>that even tech people are starting to overlook crypto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let\u2019s be clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crypto is not dead. Not even close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anything, it\u2019s just not visible right now \u2014<br>because it\u2019s moving underneath everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at what Elon Musk is actually building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not a product.<br>Not even a platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A stack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI.<br>Payments.<br>Identity.<br>Communication.<br>Infrastructure.<br>Energy.<br>Hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All being connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X is becoming a financial + communication layer.<br>xAI is building the intelligence layer on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And behind the scenes, there\u2019s a clear push toward controlling compute itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not just relying on NVIDIA \u2014<br>but moving toward owning the stack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because whoever controls compute<br>controls intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now zoom out even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Space infrastructure.<br>Energy beyond Earth.<br>Global connectivity.<br>Autonomous systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that point, this isn\u2019t about apps anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s about a new economic system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that leads to the real question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What becomes the layer of value in that system?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just fiat?<br>Fully centralized?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the more global and distributed this gets,<br>the more it naturally opens the door for something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something non-centralized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s where things get interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because when you look at CAW through that lens,<br>it stops looking like just another meme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks like something that might make sense after the structure is complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not now.<br>Not for hype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But later \u2014 when everything connects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t a claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s also not random speculation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s being built right now is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI<br>Communication<br>Identity<br>Payments<br>Energy<br>Hardware<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All merging into one system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And eventually, one question decides everything:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does value run on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still think CAW is somewhere in that answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI has gotten so dominant latelythat even tech people are starting to overlook crypto. But let\u2019s be clear: Cry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,37,3,138,29,169,27,48],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-hunters-dream","tag-btc2-0","tag-caw","tag-elon-musk","tag-layerzero","tag-nvidia","tag-x","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cawdecoded.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}