The Crypto Industry's AI Arms Race: Essentially Compute Arbitrage and Tokenization Experiments

The first thing Xue Yue, Head of AI Research at CertiK, does every morning is check if the tasks assigned to his 5-6 AI agents last night have finished running. These agents work in parallel, helping him handle security audits, code analysis, and financial report interpretation. He might not realize that he is becoming a microcosm of the "AI-for-everyone" wave in the crypto industry. From exchanges to on-chain projects, from mining to DeFi, AI penetration isn't just a nice-to-have—it's a survival race. But this race plays by a different set of rules.