We have previously told the story from the angle of AI coming in to help Blockchain and RWA work more smoothly. Now we want to talk about something equally important: the role of Blockchain at a time when everyone is turning to AI and AI agents, and why AI still lacks several critical capabilities that Blockchain can provide.

a16z crypto, one of the most closely followed voices in crypto and Web3 analysis, recently published an article titled “The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents: 5 Ways Blockchains Can Help.” The article outlines 5 core things AI still cannot do on its own, but Blockchain can help with:

1. Identity for non-humans

2. Governing AI-run systems

3. Gaps in traditional payment systems

4. Repricing trust in the economy

5. Preserving user control

If AI agents operate alone, they still cannot fully deliver on all 5 of these. SIX Network has the tools to make each of them concrete, including payments, usage rights management, trustworthiness, and data verification. That infrastructure is SIX Protocol.

SIX Network builds technology that is right for this moment.

At a time when financial institutions and major projects are moving into RWA assets, building Blockchain-based systems, and deploying AI agents to help run operations,

SIX Network is building the complete infrastructure for an era where Blockchain and AI must work together.

We approach this not by chasing trends that may fade, but by studying the long-term direction of RWA Tokenization, a market that has been growing at a remarkable pace. As we have often said, the rise of RWA is drawing major financial institutions and a growing number of investors into this space. The more demand a market attracts, the more its value expands. That is a strong signal that RWA may become a foundational part of the Financial Infrastructure of the future.

Beyond a16z crypto, Eigen Labs, the team behind EigenLayer and a research and product development company currently exploring the intersection of crypto and AI just as we are, has written about AI agents in a way worth noting:

“We have come a long way, from rule-based bots to chatbots, from chatbots to agents that can use tools, and now we are moving toward autonomous agents that operate over longer and longer time horizons. But the next step is not just greater autonomy. It is ownership. Once agents own productive digital property, the question of investability follows naturally.”

All of this is why SIX has been actively studying and experimenting with how AI can be applied to Blockchain. Because it is not only a matter of AI becoming a tool that merges with Blockchain to form a complete solution. The reverse is equally true: AI having Blockchain as its foundation makes it more complete as well. For example, it helps reduce delivery timelines from projects that used to take months or years down to a single month. It makes system testing faster. It helps development teams catch errors in code or smart contracts early, before they reach production. All of this lowers the cost of building and lets teams focus more of their energy on what actually matters.

Blockchain at SIX Network

offers a complete solution for AI integration,

becoming a tool that genuinely works in full.

If you recall the gaps that a16z identified, covering identity, governance, payments, trust, and user control, what is worth noting is that SIX Protocol as the Blockchain infrastructure of SIX Network was built from the ground up in a way that already addresses each of them.

On transactions and trust: AI agents operating on SIX Protocol can execute and settle transactions in real time around the clock without going through intermediaries. More importantly, every transaction is recorded on-chain in a way that is fully transparent and cannot be altered, giving both financial institutions and users the ability to trace every step. In a world where AI is making transactions on behalf of humans, having a verifiable audit trail is not just a nice-to-have capability. It is a requirement.

On compliance: SIX Protocol supports automated verification of regulatory requirements. When an AI agent takes any action, the system can immediately verify whether that action falls within the legal boundaries of each relevant jurisdiction, without waiting for a human to review it manually. In the world of RWA Tokenization, where each asset class carries different rules depending on where it operates, this is precisely the capability that allows the system to scale.

On rights management: 

SIX Protocol has a permissions system encoded directly into smart contracts, allowing users to define clearly what an AI agent is and is not allowed to do, under what conditions, and with the ability to stop it immediately if something goes wrong. Those permissions are not a policy written on paper. They are code that is transparent, auditable, and enforceable at the protocol level.

The gaps that a16z identified as things AI agents still lack are addressed here. And that is why SIX sees Blockchain not merely as a complement to AI, but as the foundational structure that makes it possible for AI to operate meaningfully in the real world of finance.