I think $WARD might be one of the most interesting AI x crypto infrastructure plays right now. Most AI inference today runs on blind trust: send prompt → receive output → assume the model actually did the work. But autonomous agents are already trading, managing capital, and making real economic decisions onchain. So the real question becomes: How do you verify the computation actually happened? That’s the thesis behind Warden Halo. It’s basically BitTorrent for AI inference: a peer-to-peer compute marketplace where idle GPUs, Mac Minis, Ollama nodes, and self-hosted agents serve inference across a global mesh. Tasks get distributed across independent operators and verified through SPEX fingerprints instead of centralized trust. The clever part: SPEX uses Bloom-filter fingerprints of model outputs to statistically verify whether computation was honestly performed. Honest runs converge. Fake outputs don’t. Meaning AI computation can be verified in seconds without massive latency overhead. The token design is clean too: Users pay in USDC. Operators earn in USDC. $WARD becomes the value-capture layer through automatic buybacks, staking rewards, and token burns tied directly to network usage. This feels less like an “AI coin” and more like infrastructure for the autonomous agent economy.