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GM. This is Milk Road – the newsletter that never sleeps (Christmas? What’s that?).

Here’s what we got for you today:

THE CRAZIEST CRYPTO AI PROJECT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF 😧

It’s Christmas, but the Milk Man never sleeps!

So today, we figured we’d gift you what could well be the WILDEST crypto AI project we’ve found to date…

Picture this:

1. You take a physical robotic arm…

2. You place it in a room full of 3D printers…

3. You endow that physical robot arm with AI consciousness…

4. You give it full access to the 3D printing farm and tell it: “build yourself a physical body, however you see fit”...

That’s the basic concept behind Chaos ($CHAOS).

An AI (also known as… get this… @divinediarrhea) that not only develops a presence/personality in the digital world, but in our lowly old physical realm as well.

Cool… so where does crypto come into it?

Simple: anyone that owns the $CHAOS token → owns a part of the Chaos robot.

Here’s Chaos creator Nick Liverman’s description of what Chaos is trying to achieve…

Now, this could just be a cool project that doesn’t really amount to anything outside of a cool story to tell…but it seems Nick’s aspirations go way beyond just a cool experiment.

The endgame for Chaos appears to be a decentralized version of what Tesla is trying to achieve with its Optimus bot.

Here are the two models compared side by side:

1/ Tesla

Tesla creates Optimus → sells/rents them to people/businesses → returns value to shareholders as Tesla’s revenues/stock price increases…

2/ Chaos

Chaos creates a replicable production process → launches multiple different robotic AIs → folks buy robot specific tokens → revenues generated by that bot are returned to token holders…

The difference between the two being: 

Each Tesla bot runs the same software and solves largely the same set of problems (at scale), whereas each Chaos bot is free to train itself however it sees fit. 

One might decide to create an army of cleaners and service local Airbnbs to generate revenue. The next might decide to build tech products… another might make/perform music.

It’s a wild, pie in the sky concept – and one that isn’t likely to materialize very quickly (if at all).

But in the AI agent/memecoins space, the story being told is often more important than the reality of it all.

And this is one hell of a story!

THE FIRST CRYPTO WALLET TO TRADE ON THE US STOCK MARKET 📈

Alright, here’s a quick little story you might have missed last week.

But it’s one that’s worth highlighting!

Last week, the Exodus wallet IPO’d on the New York Stock Exchange, making it the first crypto wallet to be traded on the US stock market.

Which is neat! 

But what really caught our attention was just how crypto integrated this company is.

(So much so that we’re almost surprised Gary Gensler’s SEC allowed it to IPO!)

Exodus ($EXOD):

• Pays all of its employees in Bitcoin

• Holds its entire treasury in crypto ($ETH and $BTC)

• Earns its money directly in crypto (mostly in $BTC and $USDC).

• Is allowing shareholders to move their shares onchain via the Algorand blockchain

Here’s the cool part:

Right now, all of the above is news worthy.

But in a few years, it could well be commonplace!

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Over 30% of South Koreans invest in crypto. We here in the west might think we’re the main crypto hub but South Koreans? They’re the true degens.

Russia imposes a 6-year ban on crypto mining in 10 regions. The reason? Crypto mining consumes an enormous amount of power. It’s not for everyone.

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