Unit 3 · Level 5 · AI × crypto
Unit review: signal vs noise
Real: wallets let software pay software, and decentralized compute has a genuine (if narrower-than-advertised) market. Hype: coins priced for a future nobody has shipped. Dangerous: deepfakes and voice clones aimed at your keys. One skill covers all three: verify the claim, the usage, and the person before you move a single euro.
Free to play. No ads, no token, no account needed to start.
What you get asked
Why can an AI agent hold crypto but not a bank account?
Permissionless rails don't care who (or what) holds the keys. That's the entire technical foundation of the agent-payments idea, for better and worse.
For any AI-branded token, compare the market cap to actual paying ___ before believing the story.
Followers and mentions measure attention; fees and users measure a business. Hype waves price the former as if it were the latter.
File each item under Real, Hype, or Threat
Sort every AI × crypto headline into real, hype, or threat and you'll rarely be caught leaning the wrong way.
A video call from 'exchange support' (right logo, fluent voice) says your account is compromised and asks you to 'validate' your seed phrase. What do you do?
The seed-phrase request IS the attack; everything else is production design. Urgency plus secrecy plus keys: the three-part signature of every wallet-draining scam ever run.
The AI wave will fade and another meta will replace it. What transfers to the next one?
Sectors rotate; diligence compounds. Perfect timing, because the final unit turns exactly that into your full framework. 🐜
The rest of this unit
Agents with wallets, decentralized compute, narrative coins, and the deepfakes hunting your keys.