As I think about trust-minimized data sources for @BaranosAI, DEXs and public blockchains have a massive structural advantage over CEXs – and we should create environments that highlight that. Intelligence sourcing data/signed messages from chains like Ethereum, et al can independently verify where that information came from, who signed it, and that the underlying record hasn’t been altered. Want to rely on an API from a CEX or data provider instead for your AI? Now you’re trusting a centralized entity to tell you what happened. The data may be accurate – but there’s no independent source of truth underneath it. They control the database, the API, and ultimately what gets served to you. That distinction becomes critical in an agentic future. If autonomous intelligence needs trusted data to make decisions, transact, and coordinate – blockchains offer something centralized databases fundamentally can’t – a shared source of truth that any agent can independently verify. So how then do we position blockchains to win? Make them the trust layer for intelligence. If agents increasingly rely on blockchains for trust-minimized sources of truth, centralized entities don’t just lose market share – they become less relevant to how intelligence understands and interacts with the realities of the outside world via verifiable onchain events. And yeah, take your decentralized wins when you can – as right now centralization has all the momentum. And this is why I’m prioritizing onchain verifiable intelligence (initially leaning on optimized blockchain feeds from other chains). Follow @BaranosAI for more.