In a universe where AI is both a job-creator and a master of deception, and crypto is the grumpy old man who insists on keeping things “real,” Balaji Srinivasan has some very counterintuitive opinions. Spoiler: your future might involve a lot of proctoring AI-generated lies and hoping your Bitcoin private key doesn’t get eaten by a rogue algorithm. 🤖💰
“Crypto makes it real again”: Silicon Valley legend Balaji Srinivasan
Artificial intelligence (AI) is apparently going to create thousands of jobs in proctoring and verification because it’s so good at faking everything-including your cat’s Instagram account. But fear not! Blockchain, with its “strict deterministic patterns,” will somehow save us all from this existential crisis. Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, on a16z’s podcast, delivered this wisdom like it was the last loaf of bread in a post-apocalyptic bakery.
Balaji Srinivasan on the coming verification gap in an AI world.
“AI is going to create massive numbers of jobs in proctoring and verification because it’s so good at faking things.”
“AI makes everything fake, and crypto makes it real again.” @balajis
– a16z (@a16z) November 28, 2025
With large language models (LLMs) now capable of fabricating entire universes of media, data, and even scientific theories (if you squint), blockchain remains the only thing that can’t be faked. Even the most powerful AI can’t create a valid Bitcoin private key or mint an NFT that didn’t exist. It’s like telling a computer to invent gravity-it’ll just pretend it exists and then crash. 🌌
AI makes everything fake, and crypto makes it real again
To prove this, Srinivasan casually mentioned the FTX hack. If you ask Perplexity, the LLM that thinks it’s a journalist, to summarize the 2022 FTX collapse, it’ll rely on on-chain transactions-because that’s the only data that can’t be altered. It’s like the universe finally admitting it’s bad at math. 🤷♂️
AI crypto capitalization collapsed in 2025
If you’ve ever wondered what the FTX hack looked like in blockchain terms, it’s basically a cosmic joke written in hexadecimal. Every transaction is there, forever, like a ledger scrawled in invisible ink by a drunk accountant. You can’t alter it, delete it, or argue with it-which is probably why AI gave up and went to make coffee. ☕
In 2025, the AI-crypto crossover was all the rage, with projects like X402 (a collaboration between Coinbase and Google) promising to let AI agents spend money without human involvement. It was like giving a teenager a credit card and a map of the galaxy. 🚀
But then reality hit. The AI crypto market cap dropped 74% in 2025 alone, from $13.5 billion to $3.5 billion. CoinGecko’s AI Agents tracker now looks like a graph someone drew while sleep-deprived and regretting life choices. 📉
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