--- image: "/images/notes/last-mile-frictions-disappearing.jpg" title: "Crypto's Last-Mile Frictions Are Disappearing" date: 2025-12-12 url: "https://x.com/ccatalini/status/1999600763795054689" tags: ['ai-agi', 'stablecoins-payments'] deck: "Permissionless networks are finally doing the obvious, boring thing: connecting to a Visa card. Once the rails work, the next problem is distinguishing machine money from human money." tweetCount: 3 likes: 86 reposts: 6 --- The last mile frictions of crypto are disappearing, mostly because permissionless networks are finally doing the obvious, boring thing: admitting that the most useful thing you can do with a blockchain—for now!—is connect it to a Visa card. But once the rails work, the problem shifts. As AI scales, we need to distinguish "machine money from "human money". [@worldnetwork](https://x.com/worldnetwork)'s proof of personhood may just be the compliance layer for the AI age: the only way to prove a transaction—or a post—was made by a person. Full story in [@Forbes](https://x.com/Forbes): [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/christiancatalini/2025/12/12/crypto-is-ready-to-be-boring-now/)