Crypto Risks Being Left Behind: AI’s Data Monopoly Threatens Decentralization

The cryptocurrency industry has long championed decentralization, yet a new paradigm is emerging in the form of massive data set monopolies held by AI companies. As AI generates over $300 billion in revenue by 2025, driven by its ability to train sophisticated models on vast amounts of scraped data from researchers and experts, the decentralized future of finance risks being undermined. While crypto proponents battled protocol dominance issues, such as blockchain scalability and MEV extraction, the real challenge lies offchain: AI companies are building moats that no amount of capital or talent can overcome.