Workshop - 29th March 2025 - Remote

Data Points

• Miro board

• Notes

Key Learnings

🌍 Vision for 2030 & Macro Trends

• AI will dominate everyday life:

  • AI integrated with smartphones to anticipate human needs.

  • AI used in healthcare, music, entertainment (AI-created movies), and education.

  • Autonomous farming robots producing 10% of global food.

  • Traceability of knowledge used by AI (LLMs) will become critical.

  • Growing challenge of deepfakes indistinguishable from reality.

  • Tech within human body systems (biotech/cyborg concepts).

• Human-AI integration seen as a major societal shift.

• Cooperative ownership of AI providers suggested to democratize AI benefits.

• Healthcare productivity will increase through AI tools.

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🛡 Security & Resilience Priorities

• Need for quantum resistance to ensure long-term blockchain security.

• Maintain transaction security as usage scales.

• Keep transaction fees low to remain competitive.

• Ensure staking incentives remain sufficient for network security.

• Ensure blockchain remains easy for anyone to use (low barrier to participation).

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🏛 Governance & Identity

• Proposal for individual ownership of money via blockchain.

• Digital IDs and birth certificates stored on blockchain (with specific mention of Miami as an example).

• Store land deeds and testaments on blockchain.

• Blockchain to support cooperative ownership of real estate and other assets.

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💰 Financial Sustainability & Applications

• Enable true micro-transactions.

• Support smart contracts integrating AI.

• Bring Bitcoin expressiveness into Cardano via interoperability.

• Explore a state-owned stablecoin.

• Compete with Visa/Mastercard on transactions per second and cost.

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🌱 Adoption & Ecosystem Growth

• Prioritize real-world applications in:

  • Voting

  • Banking

  • Lending

  • Communications

  • Real-world asset tokenization (real estate)

  • Supply chains

  • Luxury goods authenticity

  • Remittances

  • Trustless savings/lending for the unbanked

  • Social media platforms

• Specific mention of blockchain for public service records:

  • Birth certificates

  • Digital ID renewals

  • Land registries

• Strong support for tokenized real estate and cooperative ownership models.

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⚠ Barriers & Risks Identified

• Quantum computing could make current encryption obsolete → urgent priority.

• Regulation remains a barrier to adoption.

• Economy will continue to change dramatically due to AI and other trends → blockchain must adapt to this fast-evolving environment.

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👥 Community & Cultural Insights

• Emphasis on keeping blockchain participation accessible to all.

• Desire for user-friendly tools that allow everyday use (pay with blockchain as easily as using Visa).

• Interest in blockchain-enabled social media and direct ownership of content and identity.

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Summary Narrative

• The FIU workshop strongly highlighted the convergence of AI + Blockchain as a dominant future trend.

• The community is concerned about quantum threats, usability, and regulatory hurdles.

• There is a clear call to focus Cardano’s vision around:

  • Identity

  • Public records

  • Real-world asset tokenization

  • Financial inclusion

  • AI integration

• Participants want Cardano to stay accessible, secure, and competitive in a rapidly changing AI-driven world.