Workshop - 29th March 2025 - Remote
Data Points
Key Learnings
🌍 Vision for 2030 & Macro Trends
AI will dominate everyday life:
AI integrated with smartphones to anticipate human needs.
AI used in healthcare, music, entertainment (AI-created movies), and education.
Autonomous farming robots producing 10% of global food.
Traceability of knowledge used by AI (LLMs) will become critical.
Growing challenge of deepfakes indistinguishable from reality.
Tech within human body systems (biotech/cyborg concepts).
Human-AI integration seen as a major societal shift.
Cooperative ownership of AI providers suggested to democratize AI benefits.
Healthcare productivity will increase through AI tools.
🛡 Security & Resilience Priorities
Need for quantum resistance to ensure long-term blockchain security.
Maintain transaction security as usage scales.
Keep transaction fees low to remain competitive.
Ensure staking incentives remain sufficient for network security.
Ensure blockchain remains easy for anyone to use (low barrier to participation).
🏛 Governance & Identity
Proposal for individual ownership of money via blockchain.
Digital IDs and birth certificates stored on blockchain (with specific mention of Miami as an example).
Store land deeds and testaments on blockchain.
Blockchain to support cooperative ownership of real estate and other assets.
💰 Financial Sustainability & Applications
Enable true micro-transactions.
Support smart contracts integrating AI.
Bring Bitcoin expressiveness into Cardano via interoperability.
Explore a state-owned stablecoin.
Compete with Visa/Mastercard on transactions per second and cost.
🌱 Adoption & Ecosystem Growth
Prioritize real-world applications in:
Voting
Banking
Lending
Communications
Real-world asset tokenization (real estate)
Supply chains
Luxury goods authenticity
Remittances
Trustless savings/lending for the unbanked
Social media platforms
Specific mention of blockchain for public service records:
Birth certificates
Digital ID renewals
Land registries
Strong support for tokenized real estate and cooperative ownership models.
⚠ Barriers & Risks Identified
Quantum computing could make current encryption obsolete → urgent priority.
Regulation remains a barrier to adoption.
Economy will continue to change dramatically due to AI and other trends → blockchain must adapt to this fast-evolving environment.
👥 Community & Cultural Insights
Emphasis on keeping blockchain participation accessible to all.
Desire for user-friendly tools that allow everyday use (pay with blockchain as easily as using Visa).
Interest in blockchain-enabled social media and direct ownership of content and identity.
Summary Narrative
The FIU workshop strongly highlighted the convergence of AI + Blockchain as a dominant future trend.
The community is concerned about quantum threats, usability, and regulatory hurdles.
There is a clear call to focus Cardano’s vision around:
Identity
Public records
Real-world asset tokenization
Financial inclusion
AI integration
Participants want Cardano to stay accessible, secure, and competitive in a rapidly changing AI-driven world.
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