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Author: Zhang Feng
“Tao Te Ching” says: “Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things.” This ancient wisdom reveals the universal law of the evolution of a complex world from simple origins.In today’s magnificent digital economy era, we are witnessing a “creation” process driven by technology – asset digitization.The core driving force of this change comes from the intersection and symbiosis of three major technological forces: blockchain, artificial intelligence and quantum technology.They are like the “three” in the “three things that create everything”. They lay the foundation, endow intelligence, and break through limits from different dimensions, and together they shape a future where everything can be digitized.
1. Three major technologies constitute the inner core driving force of digital assets
Asset digitization is not simply to enter physical asset information into a computer, but to transform its core value, rights, status and even future earnings into a digital form that is programmable, tradable, and efficiently managed.Blockchain, artificial intelligence and quantum technology are providing an indispensable cornerstone for this process from the three fundamental levels of trust, intelligence and capability.
Blockchain is the cornerstone of trust and the carrier of value.Blockchain technology is a “revolution in production relations” for asset digitization.It solves the most fundamental problem: how to ensure the uniqueness, ownership and trusted circulation of assets in the digital world?
The first is to confirm rights and preserve evidence, that is,Through encryption algorithms and distributed ledgers, blockchain anchors a unique “digital fingerprint” (hash value) for any digital or physical asset and records its ownership.This is equivalent to creating an immutable “digital ID” for an asset. Whether it is a digital artwork (NFT), real estate property, or an intellectual property, its ownership is clearly identifiable.
The second is value transfer and programmability.The emergence of blockchain, especially smart contracts, has made assets no longer static “things” but become dynamic and programmable “smart assets”.Assets can be encoded with complex transaction rules, which are automatically executed when specific conditions are met, such as automatic profit sharing, mortgage lending, lease recovery, etc.This greatly reduces transaction costs and trust costs, and activates the inherent liquidity of assets.
The third is to build a decentralized system and ecology.Based on blockchain, we can build a global and open financial system that does not require traditional financial intermediaries.Various digital assets can be used for lending, trading, insurance and other complex financial activities, forming a 24-hour, uninterrupted and highly transparent value exchange network.
In short, blockchain builds a credible “digital value layer” and provides a solid foundation and circulation framework for asset digitization.
Artificial Intelligence, an optimizer for value discovery and decision-making.If blockchain defines the “existence” of assets, then artificial intelligence gives assets “soul” and “wisdom.”It solves the problems of value assessment, dynamic management and efficient utilization of assets in the digitalization process.
The first is data insight and value discovery,The value of assets is often hidden in massive amounts of data.AI can analyze macroeconomic data, market sentiment, historical transaction records, and even social media information through machine learning models to achieve accurate valuation, price prediction, and risk rating of digital assets.For example, dynamically pricing a basket of crypto assets or data assets.
The second is intelligent risk control and automated management.In a complex DeFi ecosystem or digital asset management platform, AI can monitor on-chain and off-chain data in real time, identify fraud, oracle manipulation and liquidity risks, and automatically trigger risk control strategies.At the same time, AI-driven “robots” can execute complex trading strategies to achieve automated management of asset portfolios and optimization of returns.
The third is generation and empowerment,AI itself is also creating new digital assets.AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) technology has given rise to massive amounts of digital art, music, text and code, which are themselves extremely valuable digital assets.Furthermore, AI can be packaged as a service into a tradable digital asset, and users can call the computing power of the AI model by paying tokens.
Therefore, artificial intelligence is the “value alchemist” and “intelligent steward” in the process of asset digitization. It transforms data into insights, sublimates rules into strategies, and greatly improves the efficiency and intelligence level of the digital asset world.
Quantum technology, the double-edged sword of potential and the new frontier of the future.Although quantum technology, especially quantum computing, is currently in the early stages of development, it is like the “Sword of Damocles” hanging above our heads, and it is also a “key” to open a new world.Its impact on asset digitization is disruptive and fundamental.
On the one hand, threats and challenges (broken),The asymmetric encryption algorithms (such as RSA, elliptic curve encryption) that current blockchain security relies on will become vulnerable to sufficiently powerful quantum computers.This directly threatens the foundation of the entire blockchain-based digital asset system.This “quantum threat” forces the entire cryptography and blockchain community to take precautions, actively develop anti-quantum cryptography, and promote the evolution of blockchain technology into the “post-quantum” era.
On the other hand, there is opportunity and empowerment (Li).Quantum computing, with its extraordinary parallel computing capabilities, opens up new possibilities for asset digitization.It can solve complex optimization problems that classical computers cannot handle, such asUltimate investment portfolio optimization,In a portfolio containing thousands of assets, quantum algorithms can instantly find the allocation plan with the optimal risk-return ratio;High-precision market simulation,Conduct molecular-level microsimulations of entire financial markets to predict extreme risks and market crashes;speed upAItraining,Quantum computing can greatly accelerate the training process of complex AI models, making more powerful and accurate asset pricing and risk management models possible.
Quantum technology therefore represents a force of “creative destruction”.It is not only the ultimate test of the existing digital trust system, but also heralds the unlimited potential of the future digital asset world supported by computing power.
2. Three major forces drive the rotation and cyclical superposition of the digital asset sector
These three forces do not move forward in isolation, but inspire and shape each other, forming a wonder in the history of technological evolution – “plate rotation” and “cyclical superposition.”
Sector rotation:Technology development has its focus cycle.In the past ten years, we have experienced the main rise of the “blockchain sector” from the concept of blockchain to DeFi and the explosion of NFT; currently, we are in an era of the full rise of the “AI sector”, and AI is penetrating into every corner of the digital economy; and looking to the future, the launch of the “quantum sector” has begun to take shape.This kind of rotation is not a simple matter of you singing and me appearing, but the rise of the latter sector, which is often based on the infrastructure and data created by the previous sector, and in turn poses new demands and challenges to the previous sector.
Cycle superposition:What deserves more attention is that the cycles of the three major technologies are experiencing a historic superposition.The global value Internet being built by blockchain provides high-quality, verifiable data fuel and value settlement network for AI; the intelligent capabilities of AI, in turn, make complex financial applications and automated management possible on the blockchain; and the approach of quantum computing has brought tremendous pressure and motivation to both (the security of blockchain and the computing power of AI).What this superposition effect produces is not a simple addition, but an exponential growth and change momentum.Together they form a positive feedback loop: Blockchain provides trusted data and value settlement → AI processes data, creates value, and optimizes the ecosystem → Quantum technology promotes security upgrades amid threats and provides computing power for nuclear explosions when mature.
3. Three living things shape the future: the ultimate trend of digitalization, networking, and intelligence
The combined force of these three forces is irreversibly pushing us towards a future of “digitization, networking, and intelligence”.
Digitization (breadth):With the blockchain’s confirmation of ownership and the value discovery capabilities of AI, the digital boundaries of assets have been infinitely broadened.From financial bills to carbon emission reduction credits, from personal data to creative time, everything can be “tokenized” and become a unique and tradable value unit in the digital world.
Networking (depth):These digital assets are not isolated islands. They are connected through the blockchain network and the Internet into a global, high-speed flowing value network.The combination, derivation, and nesting of assets will become unprecedentedly complex and efficient, forming a deeply interconnected and dynamically evolving “digital ecosystem.”
Intelligent (high):Across the entire digital asset network, AI will serve as a ubiquitous “nervous system” for real-time perception, analysis, decision-making and autonomous response.The future digital economy may be a highly autonomous intelligent economic system. Most transactions, investments, and risk management will be automatically completed by AI agents under preset rules, while humans will play more of a role as rule makers and strategic decision-makers.
This change is the fundamental driving force and source of wisdom that will guide future industrial changes.It requires us to rethink the enterprise’s asset structure, business model and core competitiveness.Companies that can take the lead in understanding and controlling these three forces will occupy the commanding heights in the new round of competition.
4. Not just the DeFi ecosystem: blockchain, artificial intelligence and quantum technology collaborate in a symphony
A case that exemplifies the interaction of these three forces is a modern, future-oriented decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol.In fact, not just DeFi, but all digital assets and various ecological formats have similar internal logic.
The cornerstone role of blockchain.The protocol is completely built on a blockchain (such as Ethereum 2.0 or other high-performance public chains).The user’s assets are stored on the chain in the form of encrypted tokens, and ownership is uniquely controlled through the private key.The core lending and transaction logic is implemented through smart contract coding, ensuring that the rules are transparent and the execution cannot be tampered with.This is the “skeleton” for the trustworthy operation of the entire system.
The intelligent core of artificial intelligence.including dynamic risk pricing,The protocol introduces an AI-driven risk management model.This model not only analyzes the collateral ratio on the chain, but also integrates off-chain macroeconomic data, market volatility and social sentiment in real time, dynamically adjusts the mortgage rate requirements and lending rates of different assets, and achieves more refined and forward-looking risk management and control.Intelligent clearing engine,The traditional liquidation mechanism is simple and crude, and can easily lead to serial liquidation.The AI liquidation engine can predict the point of market liquidity exhaustion, issue early warnings at an earlier stage, or adopt a “soft liquidation” strategy, such as selling collateral in batches through more complex routing algorithms in decentralized exchanges, to reduce the impact on the market and protect user assets.Personalized revenue aggregation,The protocol provides an AI-optimized revenue aggregator.After users deposit assets, the AI robot will analyze the yields and risks of hundreds of DeFi protocols in the entire chain in real time, dynamically allocate funds into the optimal combination, and achieve “one-click” and intelligent asset appreciation.
Potential impacts and responses to quantum technology.threats faced,The cryptographic signature algorithms currently used by the protocol, such as ECDSA, are at risk from future quantum computing attacks.Once a user’s private key is cracked by a quantum computer, his or her assets on the chain will be stolen instantly.Active response (shaping the future),Therefore, the development team of this protocol is taking precautions and is actively participating in the research and testing of post-quantum cryptography.They have planned a clear upgrade path, which will be through hard forks or replacing the signature algorithm module with a quantum-resistant algorithm (such as a lattice-based signature scheme) in the future to ensure a safe and seamless transition of the entire protocol and user assets when the quantum era comes.At the same time, they are also paying attention to the development of quantum machine learning and look forward to using the acceleration capabilities of quantum computing to train more powerful and complex AI risk control models in the future.
In this case, the three major technical forces are clearly visible: blockchain is the “trunk” that carries everything, AI is the “brain” that drives optimization, and quantum technology is not only a “foreign threat” that needs to be guarded against, but also a key variable that promotes the evolution of its security cornerstone and is expected to empower its “brain” with computing power in the future.The three interact with each other to jointly promote the evolution of a safer, smarter, and more forward-looking digital asset ecosystem.
Laozi’s saying that “three things generate all things” has received a new interpretation in the context of technological revolution.Blockchain, artificial intelligence and quantum technology, these three powerful technical forces, are jointly giving birth to an unprecedented new era of digital assets from the three dimensions of trust, intelligence and capability.They separate and attack together, and resonate and symphony; they develop in rotation, and are periodically superimposed.Understanding their individual contributions and collective efforts is not only a subject in the technical world, but also a required course for all governments, enterprises and individuals who intend to occupy a place in the future economic landscape.We are standing at the singularity of “three things”. An era of Internet of Everything driven by technology and fully digitized assets has quietly begun.
