Today, hundreds of millions of people have a bitcoin and other tokens hosted on blockchains worth billions of dollars.
Increasingly, however, blockchains house much more than tokens. In fact, blockchains are our future technological battery, and they can also accommodate sophisticated web applications, which live entirely, just like tokens. These applications are fully implemented from the resident code of the network (ie Smart Contract Software and its developments).
This has enormous potential: by the end of 2025, more than 5 billion people will have smartphones connected to the Internet with web browsers. So, what could encourage them to create and use web applications fully on which can wear transparent web3 functionality?
I believe that a new blockchain revolution is imminent, thanks to the progression of AI technology and the self-reporting application. “
This concerns an important emerging trend called “atmosphere coding”. The coding of atmospheres involves software engineers using tools with an integrated AI that can write and correct the software code on their behalf, which makes them much more productive.
The paradigm of self-written applications goes much further, by allowing non-technical users to create, own and update applications simply by instructing AI on the cat. For reasons that I will explain, the blockchain is in a unique position to help bring this revolutionary functionality to the world.
In the future, an individual will be able to create a personal brand website, or something such as a personalized marriage planning application for a family member marrying, simply speaking at AI. An entrepreneur without technical staff or money will be able to create a new type of e -commerce website, or create a sharing savings application with web3 rails. And, a company will be able to create sophisticated CRM features, for an infinitely small fraction of time and money investment that is currently necessary. Just speaking, without needing skills in software engineering or systems administration.
In this new development paradigm, everyday users will publish IA instructions on the cat and will simply update their web browser later to interact with their new or update application.
Applications living on blockchains have a number of precious features. They are sovereign and resistant to censorship, because they live on a public network, they are fascinating, which means that they are safe without depending on cybersecurity, incredibly resilient and can transparently integrate powerful web3 functionalities because they live in mind.
In addition, blockchain technology solves major problems involved to build solo AI on traditional computers.
For example, the code that runs on the traditional must be written carefully to avoid introducing security holes, and the whole platform is sensitive to safety configurations, cloud accounts, operating systems executed on cloud instances such as Linux, hosted platform software such as databases and web servers. This means that traditional IT infrastructure must often be more protected by cybersecurity systems such as firewalls and anti-malware. Another concern and service providers must trust.
Trust the AI to build solo on traditional is a stretching, because even a single error can lead to a cyber attack that causes data exfiltration or ransomware encryption data.
Blockchains facilitate AI to build solo in different ways. For example, the Host of Réseau Code Blockchains is “server without server”, considerably simplifying the coding tasks that AI must perform, allowing code production faster. On the Internet computer network, the code can also serve secure interactive web experiences directly with end users, and can store and process massive amounts of data effectively, and even be used to create things such as a fully-onchain social network (for example OC.APP) or an important business application.
At Dfinity, we believe very well in self-written applications operating on public blockchains, which we call “self-managed internet” and have been developing support technologies for a few years.
In order for self-written applications to reach their maximum potential, it must be possible not only for users to create them by speaking, but also to continue to update and improve them in production, so that they can speak until they have what they need, or an optimal design. Unless users can continue to update the applications executed in production, the total market discussed by the paradigm of the self-written application will only reach a tiny fraction of its enormous potential.
Dfinity has developed a programming language framework called Motoko for the use of AI, as well as humans. When a user updates an application by adding or modifying the features, the AI must also describe how to update the data structure within the application, so that none is lost. When the AI tries to install an update, the frame is capable of detecting if an error has been made, which would cause a small amount of data involuntarily, so that it can ask the AI to try again.
We believe that the Internet self-editor will democratize and decentralize technology on blockchain, and are delighted that a new platform called Caffeine.ai will soon be published. Just by interacting with caffeine on the cat, users will create, have and update sovereign applications on the Internet computer, and the global computer more widely, which is for us the merger of all the blockchains that can accommodate tokens and smart contract software.
In the future, it will be possible to say “Create me personal google photos, which I can share with my family and friends, where we can add emoji comments and reactions to the photos” or “Build me a payment system so that I can pay my international entrepreneurs using Stablecoins”.
On blockchains, human imagination, rather than technical skills, will increasingly be the limit when creating web applications. The unlocked utility will lead to a massive adoption of the blockchain – although, often, users are not aware that the blockchain is behind their experiences that change the situation.
I have long talked about a “singularity of the blockchain” where decentralized networks become a new major technological battery. I think that’s how we get there, and the future is almost there.
