$15 billion is enough to become a watershed moment in the crypto industry. This funding could pull Crypto out of its label as a speculative casino and truly push it into the stage of practical tools.

The key is that this is not to attract more retail investors into exchanges, but to build Crypto into the underlying infrastructure of the internet. Looking at the data for 2025 makes this clear—stablecoin trading volume has already surpassed $46 trillion. What does this indicate? It shows that stablecoins are evolving into the "native banks" of the internet. In the future, when you transfer money to foreign friends or purchase overseas services, the backend runs on stablecoins and blockchain technology, but what you see is still a regular app interface. Users are completely unaware of the underlying complexity.

But the real disruptive point is AI Agents. Imagine thousands of AI intelligences consuming tokens as "fuel" or "service costs" to complete tasks; in this scenario, the value of tokens is no longer driven by hype but supported by real usage demand. This is the ultimate form of token value.

Interestingly, what AI Agents need is not just simple ledgers but genuine computational power. This points directly to the next direction of blockchain technology—maintaining strong computing capabilities while decentralizing. Innovations like JAM (Join-Accumulate Machine) provide a "synchronous + asynchronous" hybrid computing model, making it more suitable than traditional smart contracts as the underlying infrastructure for AI.

Additionally, decentralized identity verification mechanisms are also crucial. Schemes like Proof of Personhood can serve as a "human firewall" in the AI era, without invasive biometric data, instead using cryptography and social verification to prove "you are a real person."

A deeper insight is that starting in 2026, the crypto industry will truly enter an era of products serving the general public. Those complex tools designed only for investors should give way. What we need are applications where users are unaware of blockchain existence but still benefit from decentralization.