Coinbase’s x402 already frames AI agents as HTTP clients that can pay per API call, while Google’s A2A and Anthropic’s MCP are solving boring interop before anyone asks for a decentralized GPU marketplace. That is the wedge crypto-AI projects should chase: agent identity, programmable payments, provenance, and policy enforcement around centralized models. Bittensor, Akash, Render, and Gensyn can still matter, but only where verifiability or open contribution changes the economics; enterprise inference buyers will keep paying for SLAs until onchain networks can make failed jobs, data leakage, and refunds machine-readable.

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