Blockchain’s AI-era value lies in security over computing, with quantum money a longer-term prospect

Blockchain’s strongest role in an AI-driven world may be securing identities and assets rather than processing more computation. Its value would come from protecting critical records and verifying work performed elsewhere. In an interview with The Rollup on October 26, Tarun Chitra argued that blockchain could serve as a cryptographic safety net: a public record of identities and assets that is difficult to forge. Computation could take place off-chain, he said, provided its results could be verified. Chitra said computing resources had become a commodity, making the security of records more important than smart-contract computation itself.