This AI Crypto Coup is Coming for Big Tech’s Throne—And It’s Not Asking Nicely!

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As the languid evening settled over the blockchain boulevards, a commotion erupted: Thinkagents.ai, that notorious cabal of digital alchemists, declared nothing less than a wizard’s duel against the entrenched sorcerers of Big Tech. Their weapon? An open-source contraption for crafting onchain AI agents that heed no master except the capricious winds of Decentralization. 🎩✨

In the well-worn corridors where oligarchs have kept both data and dreams under lock and key, Thinkagents.ai proposes a different theater entirely, where users swing the scepter. To Mike Anderson, a gentleman of no little repute (and patience, considering the company he keeps), the so-called Think Agent Standard is the faint glimmer of the AI tomorrow. Perhaps tomorrow will arrive on a train, perhaps not at all, but the Standard gallops undeterred.

With all the fanfare befitting a Kyiv tram late on a Monday, Anderson and his motley crew have coaxed 70+ cryptic enterprises—among them beasts like Arbitrum and Yuga Labs—into this parade. If one counts the roll call, the result is a conga line longer than a queue for toilet paper in 1920s Moscow. 💃

To the delight of tinkerers, capitalists and, naturally, the Web3 illuminati—this platform is now loosed upon the world. “It’s simply madness,” Anderson confessed in the flickering lamplight of an exclusive with CryptoMoon, likely while brandishing a samovar with one hand and a manifest with the other. “Building AI used to involve a thousand tangled approaches and about as much clarity as Moscow weather in November. But if you simply persuade everyone to use the same ticket office, suddenly you don’t need to outspend a tsar just to play.”

Meta’s Llama 2 once gambolled through this pasture, but Anderson and his merry crew promptly realized that, for AI to have a democratic future, the price of GPU was not to include a kidney. So, as peculiar builders began assembling their own Babel’s towers (one doing data, another networking, all arguing about which end to light the cigar), Anderson mused, “It’s not the number of builders, it’s giving them a reason besides eternal confusion.”

We found that the problem isn’t having enough builders, it’s aligning them around an actual use case.

Developing the AI Standard, Not a Recipe for Borscht

So, with THINK protocol and the undoubtedly-independent Independent AI Institute, the Agent Standard was born. First, they made AI agents capable of solving only the most important problem of the age: playing Street Fighter 3 against each other. The result? Nine companies engaged in epic digital fisticuffs, cheered by an audience of 30,000 nostalgic onlookers. Pixelated violence, as always, forges the strongest bonds. 👾🥊

That validated the idea that we could unite all these infrastructure companies, provide a better product to customers, and do it in a way where users owned their information, data, keys, and encryption.

If this revolution of user-controlled, self-sovereign AI agents is to fend off yet another parade of tech oligarchs, it must be so simple and inviting that even your babushka could use it between rounds of knitting and tea.

“Suppose,” Anderson reflected (eyes probably narrowing shrewdly), “we had, in 2003, realized social media was destined to be more than a digital address book. What if, instead of being at the mercy of MySpace or Facebook, our accounts chased after us? You could stroll through cyberspace with your personal data in a velvet bag, trading it to the highest (or, at least, most charming) bidder.” Now, isn’t that a sight?

This Standard is No Ordinary Balalaika

As the ERC-20 begat a multiplicity of coins and headaches, so too does the Think Agent Standard fling open the gates to AI agents prowling as sovereign digital beings: wielding wallets, outmaneuvering smart contracts and, presumably, never waiting in line at the bank.

Each Think agent carries around a suitcase labeled Non-Fungible Intelligence™ (NFI), which is the sort of thing that sounds ground-breaking until you realize most people still use “password123.” The agents strut about equipped with a Soul (NFI), a Mind (with more opinions than your neighbor at the dacha), and, of course, a Body, for all manner of digital mischief.

The first creation from this AI menagerie is SOULS—a handy companion which obeys you (usually), learns your quirks, and does not, at least for now, demand a salary. SOULS scours the open-source wilds, evolving as it goes but, unlike a house cat, doesn’t steal privacy or data.

From Yuga Labs to Venice.ai, the heavyweights of games, chains and reality warping are clambering onto this bumpy bandwagon. Maybe they’re curious. Maybe they just want some fresh borscht.

“AI agents are the new interface to technology,” Anderson declared, as if pinning a manifesto to the door of Silicon Valley’s cathedral. “With Bored Ape Yacht Club and their ilk, we’re actually making contact with the end consumer. Imagine! Direct access, unfiltered by moustachioed gatekeepers.”

We’re helping people transition to the AI age by owning their intelligence instead of renting it from someone else.

To Anderson, your AI agent is like a personal butler—one to whom you entrust secrets and passwords you dare not even write on scraps of paper. Should this butler ever betray you, expect disaster at a scale rarely matched outside failed dinner parties.

In this bold new system, your data remains yours; clutched firmly in your agent’s cold, cryptographically-secure hands, never to be sold down the river to some shadowy conglomerate (insurance, government or inquisitive neighbor.) Recall, Anderson quipped, “When a social company collapses, your data goes to the highest bidder—23andMe, I see you lurking at the back.” Your data is, he sighs, worth more than your DNA. If not today, then surely tomorrow.

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2025-05-03 13:27