26th March 2025 Digital Bytes

What can DeFAI do for crypto and DeFi? - DeFAI, the fusion of decentralised finance (DeFi) and artificial intelligence (AI), is emerging as Web3’s next frontier. By leveraging AI’s predictive analytics and automation, DeFAI aims to solve inefficiencies in DeFi - i.e. fragmented data, opaque transactions and slow decision-making. The fusion of AI's analytical power and blockchain's trust less architecture pledges solutions to Web3's fragmentation and opacity, yet faces critical tensions such as centralised AI models, regulatory uncertainty and ethical dilemmas. As DeFAI navigates technical hurdles and governance challenges, its ultimate test will be balancing decentralisation against AI's inherent centralising tendencies. The stakes for trust and autonomy in finance have never been higher.

Green blockchains: the push for energy-efficient consensus mechanisms - blockchain is creative but energy-intensive consensus techniques such proof of work harm the environment. Alternative energy-eff…