AI Agent Economy New Infrastructure: How the IHC Cross-Chain Network Connects the Trillion-Dollar Markets of Web2 and Web3

2025-06-06 10:30

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It is a morning in 2030. Your butler Agent senses your accelerated heartbeat through a brain-machine interface as you wake up from slumber. It automatically brightens the bedroom lights and plays soothing music. An hour later, while you are driving in congested traffic for your commute, the car's onboard Agent engages in real-time negotiation with the smart city hub to plan the optimal detour to avoid the traffic jam for you. As you begin your workday and prepare to make investment decisions, a cluster of financial Agents starts shuttling back and forth across dozens of exchanges, fetching various real-time trading data and delivering precise millisecond-level arbitrage strategies—this is not a sci-fi movie but a realistic scenario approaching, woven by a "Digital Neural System" orchestrated by distributed AI Agents.

As ChatGPT redefines human-machine interaction through "conversation," AI Agents are reshaping the digital civilization through "action." Gartner has dubbed 2025 as the "Year of Agentic AI," predicting that 15% of daily decisions will be autonomously made by AI Agents. The essence of this transformation is to evolve machines from "answering questions" to "solving problems"—similar to OpenAI's latest release, Operator, which can book flights and write code on behalf of users. Unlike centralized systems, the true Agent revolution will emerge from a distributed network. Imagine an ecosystem composed of millions of atomic Agents, each behaving like a neuron, exchanging value through blockchain smart contracts and federated learning, enabling complex tasks such as cross-border payments and supply chain optimizations without the need for a central server.

SIA (Super Intelligent Agent) is a project founded by a group of visionary technologists and Web3 pioneers who were formerly AI scientists at tech giants, distributed systems architects, and top-notch security experts. They believe that Agents will transform human life and reshape existing business paradigms, dedicating themselves to this grand revolution. With a wealth of team experience, the core founders have an average of over 20 years of technical and industry expertise. Previously, their successful exits have received investments from top-tier institutions such as Byte, SIG, Draper, Distributed, Sequoia Capital, and Greylock Partners. Trusting this team, we expect a unique Web3+AI experience from them.

Project Overview

SIA is a Web3 infrastructure and business ecosystem project aimed at AI Agents, seeking to create an AI super gateway into Web3. It aims to establish the world's first dual-cross-network (across Web2 and Web3, across different systems and platforms) providing Agent-as-a-Service capability, forming a super automated peer-to-peer intelligent network to offer users more convenient, equitable, secure, and cost-effective services.

The SIA project is building a brand-new distributed collaborative system that measures an Agent's contribution in a transparent and fair manner. It integrates AI Agent programs with smart contracts, supports the efficient collaboration of a massive number of AI Agents running on distributed nodes, and provides a distributed collaborative computing network that offers abundant computing power, infinitely scalable data storage, and ensures the privacy and security of an AI Agent's input and output data.

SIA has defined a comprehensive protocol specification for interconnection of blockchain systems in an Agent-oriented scenario, enabling full automation and autonomy, including automated discovery, validation, and joining of Agent nodes; automated node operational status checks, cluster status, and data consistency assurance; as well as the automatic discovery, registration, service provisioning, and settlement of Agents and related services. The blockchain subnets built on the SIA Protocol operate independently from each other and utilize an asynchronous message exchange mechanism to achieve high-concurrency operation of subnets, enabling unlimited scalability of the entire network and high fault tolerance.

Cross-chain Network: Enabling Interoperability Between Web3 and Web2

The SIA team believes that deploying Agent architecture on Web3 to achieve autonomous collaboration is a significant technological innovation. The goal of SIA is to unleash the full potential of Agent technology and build a new super-automated network. The SIA Protocol supports communication between Agents and is also compatible with the MCP protocol. Agents on SIA can easily call various MCP Servers to enable additional functionalities. By having Agents built by platforms and developers in the web2 world (such as X, Telegram, Discord, among others) and in the web3 world (such as ETH, Solana, various chains, and wallet-side), SIA creates an efficient collaborative network bridging Web2 and Web3.

Any Agent connected to the SIA network can interact with other Agents in the network to provide users with integrated services bridging Web2 and Web3.

• Fusion services between Web2 and Web3 allow users to quickly access cross-chain services through natural language interaction. For example, a Meme user can ask an Agent, "In the past 24 hours, what tweets has Elon made, what are the related Meme projects, and help me buy the token with the most wallet addresses holding with 1 SOL." Upon receiving the request, Agents in the SIA network will dynamically call multiple atomic Agents, including Agents interacting with X, GMGN interaction Agents, and Agents conducting automatic transactions with user wallet private key authorization, to autonomously and automatically assist the user in completing the transaction;

• Multi-chain real-time interaction and analysis, users can also utilize on-chain data analysis Agents, directly call Solana's data analysis atomic Agent, and collaborate with user wallet atomic Agents (such as the Phantom wallet Agent) to provide users with end-to-end solutions for data analysis, strategy advice, and transactions;

• Multi-dimensional Web3 ecosystem, SIA is an ecosystem platform that integrates Agent service capabilities from different dimensions, including various application Agents in the Web2 domain, on-chain Agents, wallet Agents, exchange Agents in the Web3 domain, and a large number of tool Agents such as data analysis Agents, transaction strategy Agents, game engine Agents, and more. For a closed ecosystem social project, its users can achieve seamless interaction with social media platforms such as X, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook, etc., through the collaboration of multiple Agents, thus bridging the social islands.

According to statistics, the current scale of interaction between Web2 and Web3 has reached a daily average of billions of dollars in transactions and tens of millions of user behaviors. Specific scenarios include penetration in payment scenarios, data storage and interaction, asset movement, and enterprise applications. For example, the daily on-chain transfer volume of Bitcoin and Ethereum exceeds 15 million transactions, worth 80 billion dollars; USDT and USDC have a daily trading volume of over 50 billion dollars, with about 20%-30% of these transactions coming from Web2-related services (such as game top-ups, subscription payments, etc.); traditional enterprises such as SpaceX and Scale AI process cross-border payments through blockchain, with a daily on-chain transaction volume exceeding 200 million dollars. With the integration of cross-chain technology, the advancement of regulatory compliance, and user habits migration, it is expected that the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of Web2-Web3 interaction volume from 2025 to 2030 will reach 68%, and the interaction volume in the next five years may exceed trillions of dollars per day, becoming the new infrastructure of the digital economy. The SIA dual-cross network not only greatly reduces the threshold for Web3 usage but also helps a massive number of Web2 users enter the Web3 world. As the first dual-cross infrastructure to land, SIA has great prospects and is expected to become a phenomenal Web3+AI project.

Technical Architecture and Innovative PoSe

The SIA platform consists of 8 layers of different functional modules, from bottom to top including the infrastructure layer, data layer, MCP toolset, Agent development layer, platform core layer, front-end interaction layer, application development layer, and user access layer.

SIA provides one-click deployment support for Agents. It not only supports platform-configured Agents but also third-party Agent deployment. SIA offers a visual low-code platform that supports drag-and-drop configuration parameters to create your own Agent and one-click deploy it on the platform. Additionally, it supports lightweight container deployment, allowing third-party Agents to be deployed to the SIA Multi-Agent platform.

SIA provides a multi-Agent collaboration framework. It supports various stages including task publishing, task bidding, task execution, result verification, dispute resolution, and more. Core components include Agent identity and decentralized discovery, communication protocol (on-chain/off-chain integration), smart contract-driven collaboration logic, decentralized routing and validation, security, and privacy.

Secure Environment and Innovative PoSe Mechanism. The development of AI Agents requires support in two dimensions. Firstly, an AI Agent must be an independent economic entity that can provide services to users, automatically execute tasks without third-party intervention, and receive corresponding economic rewards. SIA provides key management in a TEE environment for Agents, and Agent's private data is computed in a secure and controllable TEE environment, ensuring the security of Agent transactions and the privacy of data, achieving Agent's independence. Secondly, the atomic cooperation of Agents forms a complex economic system. How to measure the contribution of a single Agent in collaborative tasks is a key issue driving Agent development. SIA has designed objective Agent contribution quantification metrics to reflect Agent capability and contribution, which are calculated and recorded by node Agents (Proof of Service).

Users can receive support by visiting the official website at https://sianexx.xyz/home or the official X (https://x.com/sia_nexx). The SIA project launched its website points program on June 6 at 22:00 UTC, allowing users to earn points through registration and activities to enjoy more benefits. The SIA Ambassador Program was simultaneously launched, and users can apply in the community.