AI and crypto converge because both industries hit the same walls — who pays for compute, who owns the data, and who do you trust when software acts on your behalf. Blockchains do not make models smarter, but they can make incentives, attribution, and settlement legible.
The overlap shows up in practical form: GPU marketplaces match supply and demand for inference, data DAOs negotiate licensing for training corpora, and wallet-equipped agents execute DeFi strategies around the clock.
Neither stack replaces the other. Crypto without AI stays manually operated; AI without crypto stays locked inside corporate accounts and billing APIs. The interesting work lives in the glue between them.