Interesting development. OPEN launched paired to $AI and is trying to become the ecosystem's Convex that owns AI-pair liquidity across the tail, earning the fees and burning OPEN with them. There isn’t much about it yet outside of this blog post though.
Not hard to imagine this could be the start of a utility economy forming around $AI — protocols launching paired to it, building services on it, deepening its liquidity, improving its routing, extending it into stocks and credit.
The stack becomes:
1) Robinhood rails at the base (robinhood chain, tokenized equities, later on social trading and app listing)
2) Composing with RH eco (Uniswap, Lighter integration with LongX, orbio inference for agentic stuff..)
3) AI native economy, with protocol launching around AI and the long eco and pairing with AI.