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Anndy Lian said AI in 2024 is playing a pivotal role as a game maker in crypto and Web 3. It accelerates game development by automating coding, testing, and debugging processes, producing diverse game elements, and adapting difficulty and content based on player preferences.
In 2024, the improvement of formal verification in the crypto and Web 3 community will be driven by factors such as easier access, involving education and frameworks, automated verification using AI to streamline processes, and interactive verification leveraging Web 3 platforms like DAOs and DApps for collaboration.
Anndy Lian mentioned that brands like Nike and Oracle Red Bull Racing are utilizing NFTs as digital assets in 2024 to enhance brand differentiation, recognition, and loyalty. Examples include Nike's CryptoKicks platform for digital sneakers and Oracle Red Bull Racing's Velocity Series, showcasing a unique blend of art, technology, and racing excitement.
Anndy Lian commented that blockchain, AI, and Web3 technologies are not only transforming digital assets, games, and brands but also empowering users, creators, and brands to create, own, and monetize digital works in a decentralized, transparent, and incentivized manner. These technologies pose exciting yet challenging questions that need addressing within the crypto and Web 3 community. How does AI contribute to game development in the crypto and Web 3 space in 2024?
What factors will contribute to the improvement of formal verification in 2024, specifically in the crypto and Web 3 community?
How are brands using NFTs as digital assets in 2024, and what impact do they have on brand differentiation and recognition?
What overarching impact do blockchain, AI, and Web3 technologies have on the transformation of digital assets, games, and brands in 2024?
The trend that will shape the crypto and Web 3 space in 2024 is the role of AI as a game maker, which is the concept of using AI to generate, design, and develop games. It can provide various advantages for game-making, such as speed, scale, and diversity. In this second part of my predictions for crypto and Web 3 in 2024, I will delve into an in-depth analysis of crypto and Web 3.
AI Becomes a Game Maker
AI can also create games faster than human developers, as it can automate the processes of coding, testing, and debugging. This allows games at a larger scale than human developers, as it can produce infinite variations, combinations, and permutations of game elements, such as rules, mechanics, levels, or genres. Thus bringing in more diversity than human developers, as it can generate novel, original, and surprising game elements, such as themes, stories, characters, or aesthetics.
Just a few months back, I was exploring different AI game generators from G3D.ai, GPTGame.app to Scenario.com. Honest speaking, some of these work very well. Games can be created with more adaptability than human developers, as it can adjust the game difficulty, content, and feedback based on the player’s preferences, skills, and behaviors.
Therefore, in 2024, I predict that we will see a significant improvement in formal verification thanks to several factors:
- Easier access: The first factor that will improve the formal verification is easier access, which is the concept of making the formal verification more available and accessible for the crypto and Web3 community, by lowering the barriers of entry, such as skills, tools, and languages. Easier access involves various methods, such as education, documentation, and tutorials, that can teach and train the developers, users, and auditors on the basics, principles, and practices of formal verification.
Easier access also involves various solutions, such as frameworks, libraries, and templates, that can provide and support the developers, users, and auditors, with the necessary tools, languages, and resources, to perform formal verification. Easier access also involves various incentives, such as grants, bounties, and competitions, that can motivate and reward the developers, users, and auditors for participating and contributing to the formal verification.
- Automated verification: The second factor that will improve formal verification is the automated verification, which is the concept of using AI to automate and optimize the formal verification process by reducing the human intervention, effort, and error in the process. Automated verification involves various techniques, such as machine learning, natural language processing, or computer vision, that can enable the AI to learn, understand, and analyze the system, such as the software, hardware, or protocol, and its properties, such as the specification, model, or behavior, and generate, execute, and verify the proofs, such as the theorems, lemmas, or corollaries, that can demonstrate the correctness, security, and reliability of the system. Automated verification also involves various benefits, such as speed, scale, and diversity, that can enhance the performance, coverage, and quality of the formal verification process.
- Interactive verification: The third factor that will improve the formal verification is interactive verification, which is the concept of using Web 3 to enable and facilitate the collaboration and communication among the crypto and Web 3 community, in the formal verification process, by leveraging the decentralized, transparent, and incentivized nature of Web 3.
Interactive verification involves various platforms, such as DAOs, DApps, or NFTs, that can empower and connect the developers, users, and auditors to create, share, and verify the system, and its properties and proofs in a peer-to-peer, trustless, and permissionless way. Interactive verification also involves various mechanisms, such as tokens, governance, or reputation, that can align and reward the interests, actions, and outcomes, of the developers, users, and auditors, in the formal verification process.
NFTs Become Brand Assets
The other trend that will impact the crypto and Web3 space in 2024 is the NFTs, which are non-fungible tokens that can represent unique and scarce digital assets, such as art, music, games, or collectibles, and can be owned, traded, or monetized by the users, on blockchains. They are popular for users, as they can provide authenticity, provenance, and ownership, of their digital assets, as well as creativity, expression, and identity of their digital selves.
They are also popular for creators, as they can provide new ways of creating, distributing, and NFTs are also popular for creators, as they can provide new ways of creating, distributing, and monetizing their digital works, as well as connecting, engaging, and rewarding their fans and communities.
However, in 2024, I predict that we will see a new wave of NFTs that will become brand assets, which are digital assets that can represent the identity, value, and reputation of a brand, such as a company, organization, or influencer, and can be owned, traded, or monetized by the brand, on blockchains. Brand assets are important for brands, as they can provide differentiation, recognition, and loyalty of their brand, as well as innovation, expression, and impact, of their brand.
Some examples of NFTs as brand assets that will emerge or expand in 2024 are:
- Nike is a global sports brand that produces and sells footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessories for various sports and fitness activities. Nike is also a pioneer in using NFTs as brand assets, as it has launched its own NFT platform, called CryptoKicks, which allows users to buy, sell, and trade digital sneakers, that are NFTs that have different designs, features, and values. Users can also customize, personalize, and animate their CryptoKicks using the platform’s tools, such as NikeID, which allows users to design and create their own NFTs, or NikeAR, which allows users to view and interact with their NFTs, using augmented reality. I hope to see more developments in 2024.
- Oracle Red Bull Racing is another sports brand that I would mention. They have launched a series of NFTs called The Velocity Series with Bybit. They have involved leading artists: Rik Oostenbroek, Per Kristian Stoveland, Erick Snowfro and Jack Butcher. They have done extremely well in the bear market, where basically no one is talking about NFT. This series has been the most high-end and successful Web 3 digital art membership and artist drop in the last two years. The series has not only showcased artistic brilliance but also created a unique blend of art, technology, and racing excitement. Its global reach and innovative activations have made a lasting impact, setting new standards in the Web3 art community. With full disclosure, I am part of this drop, and I am delighted to see it from the start to the end. Although I will not be part of the team in 2024, I am still very excited to see what they will do in 2024.
In a Nutshell
Crypto and Web3 are not only technologies, but also movements, that are transforming the world of digital assets, games, and brands, in unprecedented ways.
By using blockchain, AI, and Web3 technologies, users, creators, and brands can create, own, and monetize their digital works, as well as connect, collaborate, and govern their digital communities, in a decentralized, transparent, and incentivized manner. These trends are not only exciting but also challenging, as they pose various technical, social, and ethical questions, that need to be addressed and resolved by the crypto and Web 3 community and beyond.
I believe that crypto and Web 3 have the potential to unleash the creativity, expression, and innovation, of the human spirit and to empower the individual, collective, and global well-being, of human society. I also believe that crypto and Web3 have the responsibility to uphold the values, principles, and standards of human dignity and to respect the rights, freedoms, and diversity, of the human culture.
Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.
Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.
An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.