A few weeks ago (at that time, I had not yet seen the article "Underground Argentina: Jewish Money Houses, Chinese Supermarkets, Laid-back Youths, and the Middle Class Falling Back into Poverty"), an old classmate I hadn't seen in a long time called me. During our conversation, he asked:

Are you still following digital currencies?

This old classmate and I have a deep connection to the crypto ecosystem. When I was still naive and attended my first offline lecture on Bitcoin, I had talked to him about my mindset at the time: I didn't understand what Bitcoin was, but I was curious and wanted to listen.

Since then, he has been one of the very few people in my real life who knows about this part of my experience.

The difference is that since then, I have fully immersed myself in the crypto ecosystem, while he continues to fight and struggle in the business world.

Nevertheless, over the years, every time we chat, we discuss the crypto ecosystem and crypto assets.

This time, we naturally talked about this topic, and his biggest sentiment was:

Back then, we both saw Bitcoin, but he never imagined that Bitcoin could rise to this price level today.

At the same time, he also asked me:

After all these years, how have crypto assets or crypto technology really impacted our lives? Besides being an investment/speculative product, what practical value do they have?

I talked to him about DeFi and NFTs as usual, and then we extensively imagined the sparks that might fly from the combination of AI and crypto assets in the future.

But he couldn't get around one question:

Artificial intelligence applications have become indispensable in his daily work; when will crypto assets or crypto applications become as essential in daily life as artificial intelligence?

At that time, I simply said that this day would take time and waiting, but I believe it will come.

The reason I recalled this experience is that the article "Underground Argentina" inspired me.

It can be said that at least in Argentina, crypto assets and crypto technology have become indispensable tools for a significant portion of the population in their daily lives. To some extent, in that country, the role that crypto assets play for a considerable number of people may currently be more important and valuable than artificial intelligence—while people there might experience a slight decrease in work efficiency without artificial intelligence, their lives could face obstacles without crypto assets.

Once crypto assets and crypto technology break free from pure narratives and imagination and begin to materialize as highly valuable tools and applications, they embark on a transformative journey.

At this point, technology will no longer be stagnant; it will develop and unfold around solving real problems. Meanwhile, the platforms that lock in technology and crypto assets will find deep roots and solid foundations in terms of value.

Looking back at this cycle, I often envision the new scenarios and applications that might arise from the combination of AI and Crypto.

But frankly, although I see promising projects and potential development directions in this field, from the perspective of actual effects and implementation, at least up to now, this path is still in the "crossing the river by feeling the stones" stage.

On the contrary, the use of crypto assets by the Argentine people in their daily lives and the future potential of RWA asset investments becoming their necessities are accelerating to become a reality and rapidly developing in another corner of the world that we previously could not see.

Perhaps the path that the Argentine people have forged through suffering and hardship will precede AI + Crypto, becoming the first new scenarios and applications to explode in the crypto ecosystem in the coming years?

If that is the case, then Ethereum, as the largest issuance platform for stablecoins and the largest platform for the RWA ecosystem, will undoubtedly be the most benefited platform moving forward.

This time, this benefit will no longer be based on imagination and narrative, but on its ability to solve real problems and become a necessity for a certain group. Compared to the former, the value built on the latter is more solid and more resilient to the impacts of time and the market.

From this perspective, the future Ethereum will have more potential and growth space than Bitcoin.

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