Jeremy Allaire predicts that just as businesses moved online, they will now transition to being 'on-chain.' This means core corporate functions like contracts, governance, and financials will be executed by smart contracts and AI, fundamentally changing how corporations operate.

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AI's biggest enterprise impact isn't just automation but a complete replatforming of software. It enables a central "context engine" that understands all company data and processes, then generates dynamic user interfaces on demand. This architecture will eventually make many layers of the traditional enterprise software stack obsolete.

The internet was designed for human interaction, actively discouraging bots. The next evolution will reverse this, with AI agents becoming the primary users. This requires re-architecting everything from user interfaces to business models, with crypto likely serving as the native payment rail for these autonomous agents.

A complete shift of financial assets to blockchain is imminent. This won't happen on transparent chains like Ethereum, but on purpose-built networks like Canton. The key enabler is configurable privacy, a feature that allows financial institutions to transact without broadcasting their proprietary positions to the entire world.

The focus on AI automating existing human labor misses the larger opportunity. The most significant value will come from creating entirely new types of companies that are fully autonomous and operate in ways we can't currently conceive, moving beyond simple replacement of today's jobs.

AI and crypto are not competing but are parallel, complementary forces reshaping business. While AI revolutionizes company creation and internal operations, Internet Capital Markets (powered by crypto) are fundamentally rewriting the external functions of capital formation, trading, settlement, and ownership for this new generation of AI-native companies.

The true economic revolution from AI won't come from legacy companies using it as an "add-on." Instead, it will emerge over the next 20 years from new startups whose entire organizational structure and business model are built from the ground up around AI.

The last decade of crypto focused on moving assets like Bitcoin on-chain. The next, more significant mega-trend will be the migration of entire companies and their real-world revenue streams onto blockchains, involving both crypto-native firms and traditional giants like BlackRock and Stripe.

The next phase of AI will involve autonomous agents communicating and transacting with each other online. This requires a strategic shift in marketing, sales, and e-commerce away from purely human-centric interaction models toward agent-to-agent commerce.

The common analogy of AI being "like a website" that every company must adopt may be misleading. The real transformative power of AI could be in enabling entirely new, AI-native businesses that leapfrog incumbents, rather than simply being a feature tacked onto existing products.

The future of AI is not just humans talking to AI, but a world where personal agents communicate directly with business agents (e.g., your agent negotiating a loan with a bank's agent). This will necessitate new communication protocols and guardrails, creating a societal transformation comparable to the early internet.