AI + DePIN Technology and Application Trends
In the future, AI Agents will gradually transition from "running in the cloud" to "running nearby". Especially in highly personalized scenarios like healthcare, smart wearables, and home assistants, people will be more inclined to deploy intelligent agents on local and edge devices, which offer faster responses and more private, secure data. Agents will become increasingly "personal" and normalized. Behind this is a major trend of deep integration between AI and DePIN. DePIN will continue to evolve more mature resource access standards and incentive mechanisms, enabling more user devices to become intelligent nodes in the network.
SoulBoundRing is a typical representative, which is not just a smart ring but has the capability of local data collection, AI inference, and on-chain interaction, essentially being an Agent node on your finger. The development trend of Kairos is also very clear.
First, Kairos will gradually scale up the network of devices and computing nodes, starting from Ring and subsequently expanding to watches, mobile phones, home AI chip modules, and other forms, creating a truly "everything can be an Agent" edge intelligence network.
Second, Kairos is building an open Agent service market where you can select the Agent services you need on Kairos, just like downloading an app from the App Store. This could be a health management assistant or a trading strategy model. In the future, not only developers can deploy Agents, but ordinary users can also "subscribe" to Agents and combine them like building blocks.
Lastly, Kairos has plans for cross-chain and cross-domain expansion. Essentially a smart agent infrastructure, Kairos's backend computing stack, Kairos Stack, is connecting with task scheduling standards of more mainstream chains and extending AI Agents to various on-chain applications like finance, gaming, and social platforms. In the future, you might play a blockchain game where the background character is an AI NPC running on Kairos.
Kairos's future positioning has shifted from "creating an infrastructure" to "creating an operating system for Agent networks". Kairos hopes that all Agents can be created, called, collaborated, and incentivized on Kairos - just like websites used to run on AWS, future intelligent agents will run on Kairos.
To summarize in one sentence: Kairos not only focuses on what Agents can do but is more concerned with where all Agents will run, how they will collaborate, and who will incentivize them - this infrastructure layer will be completed by Kairos.
When discussing "AI + DePIN" integration, many people's first reaction might be: "Oh, isn't this the same old story?" But when we think carefully, many scenarios are quite close to us. For example, in health management, many of our wearable devices like watches and rings now measure heart rate, sleep, and blood sugar data, which is analyzed in the cloud. In the future, if your SoulBoundRing is a "health management" Agent, it can directly analyze data locally, such as detecting heart rate abnormalities, predicting the best time for exercise, or even sending a post-meal dietary reminder. Imagine, these data run on your own device without uploading to a company's large server, ensuring better privacy. Moreover, when you need to see a doctor or buy insurance and need to share some data, you can use DePIN's incentive and trust mechanisms to securely provide data to hospitals or insurance companies.
From a use case perspective, if you pay attention to cryptocurrencies or want to make small investments, many people currently use "quantitative strategies" from third-party platforms. But in the future, you might directly subscribe to an intelligent investment advisor Agent on Kairos that not only provides strategies but also makes real-time adjustments based on your personal needs - for example, if you suddenly want to lower risk, it can quickly provide a new strategy. Regarding privacy, your investment data will only be used locally or on trusted nodes, and when it actually executes trades, it will use on-chain smart contracts, which are transparent and secure.
Gaming is even more interesting. Many blockchain game NPCs are quite "wooden", like fixed programs. But on Kairos, NPCs can be real AI companions that continuously learn from player behavior, interact with you, and accompany you like a real person. You can even customize this NPC, letting it become increasingly "intelligent", making gameplay almost like fighting alongside a real person. Once there are more players, these AI NPCs might even form teams to challenge another player faction - an exciting prospect.
Behind this is "everything can be an Agent". Any device can potentially provide computing power and data, joining the DePIN network, with Kairos acting like an "Agent network operating system" that allows people to freely combine and subscribe to various Agent services. Kairos's goal is to truly implement these scenarios in the next one or two years, bringing AI into everyone's life, ready to "run" anytime, anywhere.
