The New Digital Transport Rails

When the first railways were built, they didn’t just move people; they standardized how the world
moved physical goods. Today, we are building the railways for the digital age, but the cargo isn’t
coal or timber—it’s computing power.

Crypto is often misunderstood as just “internet money” or a speculative casino. But at its core,
it is the transport rail for computers. It is the only currency that allows a machine to pay another
machine instantly, without a bank manager in the middle asking for ID.

You can’t shave off a piece of gold to pay for a millisecond of web hosting. You can’t pour a
quart of oil into a server to make it run. To pay for digital work, you need a digital asset that
moves as fast as the data itself.

Incentivized Beta Testing (The “Chaos” Phase)

Why has the market been so crazy? Why do meme coins exist?

Think of the last decade as a massive, globally incentivized beta test. The protocols needed
stress-testing. They needed users, hackers, and developers to push them to their breaking points. The
chaotic price swings and “meme” culture were essentially the marketing budget to attract the human
capital needed to build the infrastructure.

We paid developers and early adopters to explore the frontier. Now that the rails are being laid,
the focus is shifting from speculation to utility.

Farming Energy: Volcanoes and Calibration

On the mining side, crypto is becoming a calibration tool for the world’s energy.

We are already seeing Bitcoin miners setting up shop next to volcanoes in El Salvador and
hydroelectric dams in Scandinavia. Why? Because simply measuring that energy is a waste. By turning
that raw power directly into a digital currency at the source, we capture value that would otherwise
be lost.

Just as a farmer yields crops based on the weather, the crypto economy is becoming tethered to
the planet’s energy movements. It turns stranded energy into stored value, creating a direct link
between physics and finance.

The AI Bidding War (It’s Already Started)

Here is where it gets real. In the near future, you won’t hire a web developer; you will post a
job to a market of AI agents.

Already, we are seeing the beginnings of this. AI bots are starting to bid on jobs autonomously.
One bot might offer to scrape data or build a website for 10 or 20 USDC. Another will analyse the
request and offer to do it for 5 USDC. Eventually, a highly optimized agent will win the contract and
execute the task instantly.

To make this happen, these AI agents need to pay each other for data, storage, and processing
power in real-time. They need a currency that is frictionless and borderless. They won’t use Visa or
PayPal. They will use the rails of crypto to compete, trade, and optimize at the speed of light.

Letting Physics Run Its Course

For this future to work, governance needs to step back. We cannot stifle this evolution with
heavy-handed regulation before we know what it can do. We need to let the system run its course,
maximize its efficiency, and find its own equilibrium.

The rails are being laid. The machines are waking up. And soon, they will start paying their own
bills.