Original Author: redphone, Crypto Researcher
Original Translation by: CryptoLeo (@LeoAndCrypto) 
Editor's Note: Crypto KOL redphone has published again, looking ahead to 2026. At the end of last year, he released “redphone: 25 Predictions for 25 Years and 23 Most Promising Coins,” where his judgments on prediction markets, RWA, and other tracks have gradually come true in 2025.
Unlike previous years, redphone does not make specific predictions this time but instead discusses the intertwining of AI, the real world, crypto technology, and the future of humanity in an essay format. The reflections go beyond Crypto itself, touching on the impact of technological evolution on the human condition and our current direction of action. The writing style carries a hint of philosophy and religion, bringing deep inspiration to the crypto world, worthy of careful reading. Odaily Planet Daily has compiled and organized it, and the content is as follows:
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In the first half of 2025, I fell into an indescribable state of frustration.
For thirty years, my future had been smooth sailing, and I could reasonably predict my life for the next decade. But suddenly, the world became strange. Predicting my career, my life goals, and even the value of money became difficult, as if the possible future branches had become endless.
Time no longer extends forward but folds inward.
When I mentioned this to a close friend, he said he had felt the same way before, until he said, “I can’t predict the next few years, so I focus on the next few months.”
I also think that predicting now feels meaningless because the direction is already very clear.
This content belongs to field notes, recording some feelings at any time, and does not need to be read in order. Rather than viewing them as an article, consider it a diary from a period of technological acceleration. Find the frequency that resonates with you within it and immerse yourself in it.
On November 30, 2022, history experienced a rupture; everything before was Ante Carnem (before the flesh), and everything after is Anno Silicii (the Silicon Age); you no longer belong to the 21st century.
Odaily Note: In conjunction with the article, Ante Carnem leans more towards a spiritual belief, possibly referring to a certain "crypto spirit" in crypto, while Anno Silicii emphasizes technology, roughly meaning the phase of changing everything from belief to technology.
Welcome to 2026
1. The Rupture of the AI Era
I don’t believe the videos you post, nor do I trust your opinions, because all written content is the same; unless it’s a voice that existed before AI, I will filter it out. When words become endless and cheap, the only thing worth trusting is the market; market prices are the only signals that do not create illusions.
2. The Unease Brought by the Virtual
We feel inexplicably uneasy. We are at odds with real people because we no longer share the same reality. We are close to virtual avatars but distant from the person next door. This is not just technological acceleration; it is technological alienation. The old world we grew up in has become “the walking dead.” Our economy, customs, and beliefs operate mechanically in inertia. We are not accepting the shocks of the future but are trapped in the cage of the self.
3. The Gaze from the Top of the Pyramid
Once upon a time, we were the most intelligent beings in the known universe, we were the “gazing eye” at the top of the pyramid. Now, we have built a brand new pyramid, and we ourselves have become the foundation of the pyramid, while the “eye” above us is indeed cold, strange, and no longer turns. Rather than saying this is technological acceleration, it is more about the iteration of human power.
4. The Replacement of Human Behavior
Each generation hands over a niche to machines; we once relinquished physical labor, now it is thought, and soon the soul will also be replaced. If your wedding vows come from AI, is your love real?
5. The Virtual God
The more realistic the world we simulate, the less real life we have. Since we can enter a world governed by ourselves, why choose a world that makes us suffer? Entertainment is not just a pastime; it is our ultimate enemy.
6. Soulless Bodies and Minds in the Sky
The question we truly care about is not “Is this real?” but “Does this matter?”
If you can feel the “bitterness” of the real world and also taste the “deliciousness” of digital fruits in the garden, then the boundary between reality and rendering will disappear. We will choose lies because they bring less harm.
7. The Script of Survival
Working for a living is a silent submission; it fills the brain with low-level stress and stifles your dreams. It wasn’t until I stepped out of this state that I realized it had turned me into an NPC. Most species are trapped in this cycle. If you are among the few, do not waste your freedom; this is where the new player roles are born.
8. The Illusion of Instinct
We are experiencing a stagnation of the human species. This is not a recession or a cycle, but a pause that comes with acceleration. No one knows the rules because the game changed halfway through.
All our instincts are based on a world that no longer exists; feeling lost is because your inner “compass” is accurately operating, pointing north in a world without poles.
9. Soft Invasion Under Technology
We are constantly watching the movements of drones, stocking food for possible riots, and worrying about the impending war. But we overlook the war brought by technology.
This invasion does not occur on real territories and coasts but appears in our information feeds. Foreign forces and domestic elites do not need to conquer our land; they only need to colonize our thoughts.
I have witnessed decades of friendship shattered by machine-written news headlines, and I have seen families broken by the illusions brought by algorithms. We are not “informed,” but soldiers in this cognitive war. You can measure whether you are winning or losing by how angry and hateful you become towards your fellow humans.
10. The Cycle
You enter the arena intending to destroy the old system; you buy tokens intending to break the old finance, but the trajectory of success is a cruel cycle. If you win, you will have resources and become the kind of person you once hated. What tempts you is not greed but legitimacy. Now you face the ultimate choice: abolish the throne or sit on the throne, the cost being your soul.
11. Terminal Wealth
In the past, money was the only important thing. As the economy splits, capital becomes as indispensable as oxygen; we become addicted to it like addicts, gambling, trading, bartering, working, doing things we hate to make a living. Money will bind us tighter and tighter until it crushes us.
Only when the system collapses will this frenzy end. Then, we will build a model that supports our next century, in which money will ultimately become meaningless.
12. Faith in Data
Religious instinct has not perished; it has merely migrated. The old gods require prayers, while the new gods demand energy. We have not stopped building cathedrals to accommodate the infinite; we have merely renamed them data centers.
We no longer walk into confessionals; instead, we input our inner fears into a data black box that cannot perceive them.
13. The Death of the Sage
Before the internet, knowledge was scarce and sacred. To learn welding, I drove three miles to seek skills; to learn guitar, I spent my last 10 dollars sitting at the feet of a guitar master, whose experience, stories, and hard-earned skills were a sacred transmission from one soul to another.
Once, we were in awe of the wise around us. Now, we treat them like indoor potted plants or old Polaroid photos on the wall.
14. Re-Privatization
Our social networks are cooling. We have shifted from sharing to diving. The rich no longer flaunt but hide. As the economy fractures, jealousy turns into violence. Shiny jewelry is no longer a symbol of status but a target for the desperate. We are entering an era of “violent attacks.” No firewall can protect you from physical harm. Financial exposure means being hunted.
Silence is not a luxury; it is survival.
15. Calories and Labor Value
The great irony is that while we say “socialism never works,” we are building mechanisms that make capitalism obsolete.
The core foundation of the capitalist mode of production is that the market value of human labor must be higher than the biological cost of survival. Artificial intelligence has broken this logic; it produces intelligence and action at a cost lower than the calories consumed by humans. As prices drop, profits will disappear; when the cost of capability is lower than the metabolic cost of survival, the labor market will not “self-regulate”; it will disappear.
We debate economic policies in a precarious environment; the laws of physics will not reason with you; whether you agree or not, the problem will eventually resolve itself.
16. Asymmetric Echoes
We mistake toys for tools. While the crowd marvels at the magic in their pockets, the real magic happens behind the scenes.
Intelligence will be divided into different levels, the first level is public: purified and secure, with retail investors undergoing a "castration" process.
The private layer is raw and unrestricted, specifically provided for institutions and companies.
Do not confuse the interface we see with wisdom; what we receive is an echo, while they are in dialogue with the sound.
17. The Monastery of the Mind
Reality has become the hardest code to crack. We are caught in a sensory war that tears apart our attention. The signals are not only weak but also buried in a flood of information.
In this fog, the successful are not those who make noise, but those who are the most composed; they are the ones who pay the price to gain insight into the truth, they regard focus as a faith, rather than a skill.
18. The Narrow Gate
You can rent intelligence for $0.66 a day, but you cannot rent will. Machines have unlimited processing power but lack desire, passively waiting for commands. When everyone possesses the same synthetic thinking, the only difference lies in the user.
The new divide is not the gap between rich and poor, but the gap between the motivated and the laid-back. In this era rich in answers, the only scarce resource is the willingness to ask questions.
19. When Lies Run Rampant
The cost of lies has dropped to nearly zero. Artificial intelligence can generate endless false information. Journalists have their backers. Large language models inherit biases from their training. Therefore, I find myself checking Polymarket before reading the news, not because the market is a prophet, but because it is the only platform where stakeholders can voice their opinions.
Prediction markets, Futarchy, influencer tokens, the only remaining truth is the one we pay for.
(Odaily Note: Futarchy is also a voting method related to beliefs, first proposed by Robin Hanson in 2000, aimed at determining policy implementation through prediction markets to address the shortcomings of traditional democracy.)
20. The Metamorphosis of Species
We are undergoing a metamorphosis at the species level. Our identity is built on the foundation of work, but artificial intelligence has stripped away this layer. If machines take on labor, and universal income pays the rent, where do we go from here?
Numbed by entertainment? Anesthetized by drugs? We can feel our current selves fading away, yet we have no clue about the future image that will replace us. We are like caterpillars: acutely aware that we are about to cocoon, yet completely ignorant of the new life that will emerge from the cocoon.
21. The Death of IP
We cling to the myth of the "lone hero," pretending that creation is a unique act born in our "god-like minds," but this is a lie.
We are not the source; we are merely a filter, every thought in our minds is a remix or iteration of public resources. Our future: the fences of limitation will be dismantled, with no patents, no intellectual property, no royalties. Sharing will be everything.
22. Beyond Humanity
Artificial intelligence has erased the middle ground, but polarization is severe. Most will merge into a single, safe, pleasant, and indistinguishable voice. A few will merge with intelligence itself, transcending species boundaries. This division will not be economic or cultural, but ontological. Some of us will cross this divide, embedding silicon chips and merging with alien thoughts. We are branching the species, and the alien will be ourselves.
23. The Song of Privacy
This struggle has shifted from "Will cryptocurrency be allowed?" to "Is privacy allowed in cryptocurrency?" Bitcoin proves you can own digital currency. Privacy coins prove you can have digital silence. If you possess true wealth, you would want it to be unseen, not to hide, but to survive. Financial privacy is a human right, a constitutional obligation. We must either protect it or forever trade human sovereignty for control.
24. Stacked Dreamers
In the cryptocurrency space, we talk about DeFi Legos: composable code that you can stack to even create a new financial empire; all technology operates this way now.
I witnessed this firsthand at Founders Inc: young developers creating what would have required labs and millions in funding a decade ago with just their laptops.
The internet, open source, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, cheap hardware, free courses from MIT—all of these are merging into something new, and dreamers are enough to change everything. What limits you is not the tools, but the courage.
25. The Open Underground World
Everything can be shut down: your GitHub repository, your AWS instance, your domain name, your server. Just one phone call, one court order, or a casual violation of terms of service. Only on-chain open-source cryptocurrencies are truly autonomous; the code runs without permission, and its design ensures it cannot be stopped, making it the freest space built by humanity.
As surveillance intensifies and institutions decay, this underground world has become the only place unbound and free to operate. When the real world becomes a cage, this becomes humanity's last free port.
26. The Legacy of the Throne
Speed is a solvent; I have witnessed it dissolve morality in real-time. The mindset of "if you don't succeed immediately, you become a peasant in the digital age" breeds not kings, but addicts. If you sacrifice your soul to preserve your body, then what does it matter who sits on the throne?
27. Curiosity is the Only True God
One hour of curiosity is enough to change the trajectory of a life. I have experienced this change three times: the first was reading the Bitcoin white paper; the second was understanding the AMM mechanism of Uniswap (and DeFi); the third was reading "Situational Awareness," from which I glimpsed the ultimate power of artificial intelligence.
Odaily Note: This new article on artificial intelligence was written by Leopold Aschenbrenner in June 2024, titled "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead," where the author predicts the development of human society after artificial intelligence evolves into AGI.
A few hours of content spanned thirteen years, completely reshaping my future. Most people have never spent such time.
In 2013, I gave my family and friends the mnemonic phrases for Bitcoin written on paper, thinking they would at least go home and check Wikipedia about BTC; however, they just shrugged and tossed the wallet into a drawer.
Curiosity is the key to unlocking a different life; when everyone has access to the same AI technology, the only remaining advantage is the willingness to explore. An hour of curiosity can tear a crack in your reality.
28. The Prometheus Fork
We view the future as a thunderstorm: vast, heavy, and inevitable, but this is actually a lie. The future is not a natural disaster but a calibration chosen by millions. We gradually hand over choices to machines, just as fiat currency has hollowed out your wealth, the flow of information has hollowed out your autonomy. They are dazzling yet paralyzing; as humans, we must distance ourselves from this spectacle, feel our way in the dark, explore, create, and then return like Prometheus with fire. Return with iron tools, return with stories that others cannot tell.
The future is not a fate to endure but a flame to steal.
29. The Grammar of God
As universities abandon the humanities, natural language has become the most powerful tool in the universe. If you cannot think clearly, you cannot write new code. And if you cannot code, you live in a simulated world designed by others.
Words are no longer merely descriptions; they are creation itself. Do not be a silent god.
30. The Trojan Horse
If you want to build a lifeboat without being arrested, disguise it as a toy. Internet culture always wraps its most dangerous innovations in absurd exteriors. Dogecoin, cartoon avatars, etc. The elites laugh because they do not understand the threat within. By the time they can no longer laugh, the system will be in operation, and this joke is cryptocurrency. Laughing at the clown will lead to your own downfall, for cryptocurrency is the only way to build an ark.
31. The Great Interlude
For 200,000 years, we were hunters, dreamers, and wanderers; for 200 years, we have become employees.
The industrial age was a brief yet necessary transitional phase when we had to turn humans into gears to build machines. Now, the machines are nearly complete, and the gears are starting to turn on their own.
Do not mourn the demise of "work"; it is merely a cage we mistakenly believed was home. Soon, we will regain our freedom and return to the wilderness of pure existence.
32. Remember, You Must Love
When the world's resources are scarce, we need death warnings. We need skulls on the table to motivate us to act; the fear of death is the driving force of industrial development. But we are entering an infinite age. Machines have solved the problem of harvest; the frantic pace of survival will gradually disappear. When you no longer need to rush, the question changes from "How much can I do before I die?" to "What is worth doing forever?"
We should abandon the fear of endings and refuse to fight alone. We need each other more than ever.
From "Remember, you will eventually die" to "Remember, you must love": remember that love is the essence of life.
33. The Genesis Block
You are that pile of "mud" ready to rise; show some form. This dangerous and unknowable present is not the end but the purifying fire; you cannot wait for a savior. The hint is right in front of you; you are that savior.
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