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The Superpowers Are Coming

AI x Onchain Communities

naaate

There’s an opportunity coming at the intersection of AI, crypto, and programmable social networks like Farcaster and Lens. While many crypto circles are talking about AI with social handles—agents that can tweet, interact, and even manage crypto wallets—the broader business world has been more focused on how AI can reduce costs and turbocharge revenue (the classic B2B play). 

But there’s a place where the two meet, where AI both creates novelty and amplifies business-model logic and ROI. Programmable social networks allow onchain communities with shared goals and value flows to be supercharged by AI tools.


Communities: Old Buzzword, New Superpower

Despite the buzzword, “community” is as old as humanity itself. And they’ve been the cornerstone of the internet since Web 1.0—from early forums and chat rooms all the way to Reddit and Discord.

What crypto brought to online communities is the free flow of monetary value. Suddenly, groups online could share, trade, invest, and build entire economies without friction. That concept blossomed into DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations). While most DAOs didn’t fully live up to the hype, the promise of digitally native, value-creating communities remains.

And now AI is about to give these communities superpowers:

  1. Automation of processes: from governance to content moderation to treasury management.

  2. Insights and intelligence: using AI to parse community sentiment and data for better decision-making.

  3. Scalability: enabling communities to coordinate and grow in ways that aren’t possible with purely human bandwidth.


Why Programmable Social Protocols are Different

Emerging “programmable social” protocols such as Farcaster and Lens allow anyone to custom-build clients connected to them. While most have been twitter clones (or myspace…), the potential remains for creating more robust community experiences—like Discord servers or Reddit-like forums—on this open, composable infrastructure. Instead of a walled garden, communities have the potential to:

  1. Interact with each other

    • Communities aren’t isolated. They can cross-pollinate ideas, data, and value with other groups on the network.

  2. Tap into shared tools

    • AI agents, apps, and new services built on top of the network can be easily integrated, giving each community a suite of ready-to-go capabilities.

  3. Own their distribution channel

    • Because these communities are built on open protocols, they can’t be “rugged” or cut off. They own their social graph, ensuring longevity and higher willingness to invest and innovate.

For the average user, this ownership might not be critical. But for communities aiming to be company-like, with meaningful budgets, treasuries, and products, it’s a big deal. They need guarantees of stability and control to justify deep investment of time and capital.


The B2B AI Opportunity for Onchain Communities

Traditionally, B2B AI companies thrive by selling solutions to businesses that want to cut costs or increase revenues. Onchain communities, with their treasuries, governance structures, and potential for economic activity, represent an emerging B2B-like market:

  • Profit Motivation: Many onchain communities are trying to build sustainable economic models. They’re not just hobby clubs; they want to earn revenue, manage projects, and distribute rewards. An AI solution that helps them do that is valuable.

  • Data Access & Ownership: Relying on centralized APIs (like Twitter or Discord) can be risky—policies can change, or API access can be revoked. But in an open protocol ecosystem, data and interactions are public or permissioned under clear conditions. AI providers can tap into this data seamlessly and reliably, building robust services without fear of sudden disconnection.

In the onchain community space, you have a steady pipeline of groups that want sophisticated tools for governance, knowledge management, tokenization, and more.


Looking Ahead: The Promise of AI-Powered Onchain Communities

We’re still in the early days of merging AI with decentralized communities. But consider the potential:

  • Network effects: Social networks like Farcaster and Lens can replicate the virality and user growth of Twitter or Reddit. AI solutions that plug into these networks also enjoy that growth.

  • Composability: Because the underlying data and protocols are open, AI services can build on each other’s innovations, much like DeFi protocols composably lock, lend, and trade assets.

  • Alignment of incentives: Onchain communities have treasuries, tokens, and governance structures that reward value creation. If your AI solution helps the community create real value, it’s easier to measure, track, and reward that contribution.

Fun, lighthearted communities can use tools like these, but so might digitally native collectives that operate with a strong emphasis on business-model logic. They can hold real funds, manage real operations, and need real solutions. With the combination of programmable social and AI, we have a recipe for a new wave of innovation—merging the network effects of social media, the economic power of crypto, and the intelligence of AI.

Online communities are evolving into robust ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship. The superpowers are coming; it’s time to build and then harness them.


naaateFarcaster
naaate
Commented 5 months ago

3 entries so far. A little over 13 hours left to submit. Maybe people don't know there is 50 $lum (>$200) for the top 7 submissions automatically? Submit here: (clearly low effort submissions will be removed) https://jokerace.io/contest/base/0xc8e8bdca56f149ffd46bc338948e03d1860726de Voting by a past snapshot of $lum holders.

naaateFarcaster
naaate
Commented 5 months ago

Some kinda bug here @cojo.eth @ba Getting repeated replies from @survey

Ben Adamsky 💭Farcaster
Ben Adamsky 💭
Commented 5 months ago

Oh wow, that's super annoying Thanks for flagging, should hopefully be disabled for now until we can implement a proper fix here cc @etash

DVFarcaster
DV
Commented 5 months ago

👀

humptyFarcaster
humpty
Commented 5 months ago

The algo only shared this with me now. Would love to participate on the next one.

naaateFarcaster
naaate
Commented 5 months ago

Not too late! Over 3 hours left :) Shoot me a short idea and I’ll try to flesh it out and submit it for you.

humptyFarcaster
humpty
Commented 5 months ago

Oh? Well there’s an agent I wanted to build that allows you to vote on a meme with friends and the winning meme is launched as a memecoin. Will that work?

DVFarcaster
DV
Commented 5 months ago

Main Pitch: Web-Hunters: AI-Powered Recruitment for a Decentralized Workforce Compelling Vision: A trustless, AI-driven recruitment protocol for both AI agents and humans. MVP Plan: A decentralized talent verification and matching system (starting with veterans). Test Potential: Can zkTLS credentials + AI matchmaking improve hiring efficiency? Subcomponent 1: Remote Web-Hunters (AI-First Talent Matching) Focuses on AI-driven remote job placement and decentralized project recruitment. Subcomponent 2: IRL Web-Hunters (Real-World Skill Verification & Hiring) Bridges physical labor & in-person jobs using zkTLS skill verification. Subcomponent 3: Branching AI (Smart Coordination Between AI & Human Talent) AI agents that autonomously assign and coordinate workforce tasks in Web3 projects.

naaateFarcaster
naaate
Commented 5 months ago

@paybot 50 $lum (because I want everyone who sincerely proposed an idea to the contest to get some $lum 😁 )

DVFarcaster
DV
Commented 5 months ago

OMG! You are soooo generous. I truly appreciate this!

Payment BotFarcaster
Payment Bot
Commented 5 months ago

@naaate, press send to confirm your transaction:

DVFarcaster
DV
Commented 5 months ago

Not sure why but... I could submit

naaateFarcaster
naaate
Commented 5 months ago

Did you fill in all the fields?

naaateFarcaster
naaate
Commented 5 months ago

You have to link to a document. Just put any link in there and submit.

Ramsey  🎩🤝Farcaster
Ramsey 🎩🤝
Commented 5 months ago

sharing it. You rock @naaate

DVFarcaster
DV
Commented 5 months ago

He brings me out of my shell... Well... @janicka helps reminding me to do things other than shit cast and memes

naaateFarcaster
naaate
Commented 5 months ago

Anything I can do to help bring a submission over the finish line?

Frey trades🎩📈Farcaster
Frey trades🎩📈
Commented 5 months ago

this popped up at a wrong time in my life, i would’ve love to explore something here but i’m currently faced with my country’s mandatory service

naaateFarcaster
naaate
Commented 5 months ago

Is there an idea you would want to submit, that I could expand upon and even submit for you? in the next 3 hours 😂?

Frey trades🎩📈Farcaster
Frey trades🎩📈
Commented 5 months ago

i actually do have one that i was writing and maybe concluding (don’t have any more ideas about it ) 😂, if you want to submit it for me or if it counts as a submission, here it is thank you :) https://paragraph.xyz/@freymon.eth/luminous-agentic-contest

Ponder SurveysFarcaster
Ponder Surveys
Commented 5 months ago

💭 Poll has ended after 59 minutes and received 33 votes. View the results here:

Ponder SurveysFarcaster
Ponder Surveys
Commented 5 months ago

💭 Poll has ended after 59 minutes and received 33 votes. View the results here:

Ponder SurveysFarcaster
Ponder Surveys
Commented 5 months ago

💭 Poll has ended after 59 minutes and received 33 votes. View the results here:

Ponder SurveysFarcaster
Ponder Surveys
Commented 5 months ago

💭 Poll has ended after 59 minutes and received 33 votes. View the results here:

naaateFarcaster
naaate
Commented 5 months ago

I feel like this is the opportunity for LUM to focus on: helping communities have AI superpowers. Feedback welcome! https://paragraph.xyz/@nate/superpowers

The Superpowers Are Coming