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BlackRock confirms AI compute could be tokenized in the future
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The world's largest asset manager envisions a future where computational power becomes a tradable digital asset, bridging AI infrastructure and blockchain finance.
Key facts
- The $1.1 trillion revenue projection for hyperscaler cloud services by 2030 provides a concrete target for how large this addressable market could become
- Compute is emerging as a new and potentially large market for digital assets,” the paper states, a sentence that carries a bit more weight when it comes from a firm managing north of $10 trillion
- BlackRock’s Digital Assets Research team published a white paper that reads like a roadmap for a world where GPUs are the new gold bars
- The research also flags agentic payment protocols like x402 and the Machine Payments Protocol as foundational infrastructure for machine-initiated transactions
Summary
BlackRock’s Digital Assets Research team published a white paper that reads like a roadmap for a world where GPUs are the new gold bars. The paper identifies three areas where AI and programmable finance are starting to converge: automated machine-to-machine payments, tokenized financial assets, and emerging markets for computing capacity. That last one is the headline grabber. “Compute is emerging as a new and potentially large market for digital assets,” the paper states, a sentence that carries a bit more weight when it comes from a firm managing north of $10 trillion in assets.