According to BlockBeats, on August 27th, Binance founder CZ stated at the Bitcoin Asia 2026 conference:

"I think (AI and crypto integration) will probably start with stablecoins. Once you can accept stablecoins, adding Bitcoin will be very easy. Then hopefully it will be just as easy to add BNB, Ethereum, Solana, and other blockchains. And some large AI companies may also want to issue their own tokens, so they will likely integrate these in."

I've discussed issuing tokens with several top AI companies, and there are many different ideas. You're all in the early stages right now. For example, building data centers requires a huge amount of capital; one gigawatt of computing power costs roughly $30 to $50 billion. Many AI companies, despite their high valuations, don't have enough funding; many don't have enough money to build that scale of computing power. Some AI companies I've spoken to want to build hundreds of gigawatts of computing power in the next few years, which will cost trillions of dollars, right? So we've been discussing how it might be possible to issue a data center token, allowing token holders to earn rewards for using the data center in the future.

If you're going to issue a token, you want to maximize its utility, so naturally you'd want to allow subscription payments to be made with the token, and then you'd want to tie it to different language models and different services. So there are many different models that can be combined. Therefore, it's not inconceivable for AI companies to issue their own utility tokens and promote them. I think we've already seen some companies very closely associated with OpenAI issue tokens, like Worldcoin. While it may not have much utility today, those people are very close to AI companies.

So I think encryption will play a role. When AI processes payments for us, it will use cryptocurrencies. But today, I think AI payments will likely come after AI transactions. For example, using AI agents to book hotels, pay bills, and so on. Based on my conversations with some top AI companies, payments aren't their priority today. They're trying to make agents smarter, helping you find the best deals, but they don't see payments as a major problem AI needs to solve today. Once AI helps people find the best hotels, most people can simply swipe their credit cards to book them themselves.

However, AI might be more suitable in the trading field because you need to gather massive amounts of information very quickly, react rapidly to news, and analyze charts. No matter how you trade, AI can likely increase efficiency tenfold to facilitate this process. To achieve this, you don't want AI to simply analyze for you while you press the button to trade. For efficiency or timing reasons, you'd want AI to place orders directly for you. Therefore, AI might trade for you first, and then process the payment later.

According to Beating AI, Tibo Sottiaux, core product lead at OpenAI, was recently interviewed by Matthew Berman. After the interview aired, netizens noticed a significant difference between him and his usual appearance; his hair was longer, and he looked considerably more tired.

Soon, the meme "OpenAI makes people age" went viral on X. Someone posted two photos side by side and asked, "What did OpenAI do to you?" Tibo replied, "Your hair grows, and you can cut it." He then started a poll asking himself whether he should cut his hair.

Today, Tibo even changed his X profile picture to the "tired" version from the interview, continuing to play along with netizens' jokes. He quipped that working at OpenAI for a few weeks yielded the workload of several years at other companies, "aging this much in just a few days, it's insane." Not long after, he added that he felt like he hadn't pressed the reset button in 20 years and was going to find it tomorrow and dust it off.

This is practically a reminder to Codex users: "Get on board now!"

According to BlockBeats, on August 27th, Binance founder CZ stated at the Bitcoin Asia 2026 conference:

"(The crypto hotspots for the next bull market) Right now, RWA and AI are both very strong, stablecoins will continue to grow, centralized exchanges will continue to grow, DEXs will continue to grow, meme coins will continue to grow, NFTs may make a comeback in some form, and DeFi will continue to grow. So I think many things will continue to grow."

I don't know what the next big thing will be; it's hard to predict. You know, at the beginning of 2017, I couldn't predict ICOs, but six months later we were doing them; six months before the NFT craze, I couldn't predict it either. So predicting the next thing is extremely difficult. I think it depends on entrepreneurs, like those of you here and outsiders—you're the ones who create the next big thing. That's about all I have to say.