2026年 AI 与区块链融合报告：亚洲如何塑造技术融合新前沿

Foreword 1Contributor Notes11. Executive Summary32. The Current Snapshot of Crypto x AI53. Why Asia? The Macro Context74. The Global Landscape: AI & Blockchain Convergence105. Examples of AI & Blockchain Convergence in Asia146. The Road to 2026 and Beyond237. Risk, Governance, and Responsible Acceleration288. Conclusion31Appendix & Partner Notes32Methodology34 Foreword By Erik Reppel Head of Engineering, Coinbase Developer Platform and creator of x402 The Asia–Pacific ecosystem is emerging as one of the most active testing grounds for theconvergence of AI and Blockchain. Developers, regulators, and platforms across the region areexperimenting with autonomous agents infinance, logistics, gaming, and identity tied toblockchain infrastructure, while balancing speed with responsible deployment. AI agents are moving from experimental interfaces to fully capable systems that can perceive,reason, and act. To operate safely in real economic environments, these agents need reliable waysto move value, verify identity, and anchor their decisions in transparent systems. This is where theintersection of AI and blockchain becomes technically meaningful rather than aspirational. x402 was designed to address a simple engineering constraint: agents need a standardized,interoperable way to request and settle payments across networks. By treating value transfer as aprotocol rather than an application feature, x402 provides a foundation for agents to interact withwallets, chains, and payment services without brittle integrations. In parallel, blockchains supplyverifiable state and auditability, while stablecoins and L2 networks provide predictable settlement.This combination creates the conditions for agentic systems to operate safely at scale. This report highlights how APAC teams are implementing real-world systems that combine AIreasoning with on-chain execution, often under complex regulatory and infrastructuralconstraints. Contributor Notes Jesse Pollack CEO & Creator of Base “The powerful thing about AI and blockchain is that they’re both impactful trends emerging at thesame time and are very additive to each other … One challenge with AI is proving authenticity — isthis a human or a bot? Agents also need a way to transact with money, which is difficult with legacysystems. Crypto solves these problems. Blockchain is a powerful tool for proving authenticity … Iexpect these trends will drive innovation, as we’ll extend human capacity with agents that now alsohave superpowers like handling money and proving authenticity.” (Source) Philipp Kandal Chief Product Officer, Grab “We’re excited about the developments in these spaces. AI has been part of Grab’s DNA from thevery beginning, and we are always exploring how to harness the latest technologies to solveuniquely Southeast Asian challenges. We intend to continue playing a key role supporting SoutheastAsia’s innovation journey.” Looking forward Together, these perspectives point to a clear trajectory: AI will increasingly act, blockchains willincreasingly verify, and APAC will remain a key region proving how these systems can work safelyand effectively in production. 1. Executive Summary The year 2025 marked a global tipping point for the convergence of AI and blockchaintechnologies, but no region embodies its potential more than Asia Pacific. Here, a young,mobile-native population, progressive regulators, and deep capital pools are fueling experimentsthat will define digital commerce through 2026 and beyond. AI brings pattern recognition and autonomy; blockchain adds provenance, verifiability andownership. Together, they enable trustless intelligenceflows: agents that can meaningfullytransact, markets that self-govern, data that is verified and access to models for all. According toMessari’s Sizing the Crypto x AI Market (2025), the sector already exceeds $2.7billion in tokenized value, with Asia accounting for nearly 40 % of active projects.Chainalysisdatashows Asia-Pacific was the fastest-growing region for on-chain activity in 2025 (+69 % YoY), whileAI venture funding in Asia hit record highs (57.9% of global VC allocations in Q1 2025 perPitchBook). The space where AI meets crypto is a nascent one and perhaps one which has already gonethrough one wave of speculation. That said, there is real potential for both tech trends to augmentone another and it is most likely to create value when it relies on the things that blockchains dobest (Superscrypt investment thesis via Jacob Ko interview): ●Incentivizing data collection & augmentation with incentives & tokens●Cross-border payment rails for autonomous agents●Coordination of scarce compute resources for AI workloads●Provenance and tracking of data and models used in inference The report unpacks why Asia is becoming the convergence epicenter, examines key use cases,profilesflagship projects, and addresses the emerging risk and governance imperatives that willshape the road to 2026. 2. The Current Snap