Metamatic Group’s Post

2022 was a rough year for most all cryptocurrency projects and organizations, but perhaps more so for the Solana network, which saw network outages, and aggressive BD pushes from other ecosystems, diminish both network activity and token price. However, the Solana foundation, amidst a host of other initiatives aimed at cementing its place as a cornerstone blockchain ecosystem, has announced the development of an AI-driven tool to help inexperienced users select the 'right' NFT collection for them. Solana's Head of Product points to an intimidating number of potential factors, alongside a saturation of hype-only projects, as a potential barrier to entry for would-be participants in the NFT ecosystem. "AI can come in and make that data accessible for a normie, for somebody new coming into [Web3] to discover what are the things that they care about" Though referring to would-be users as 'normies' is perhaps an interesting choice of phraseology, the fact that blue-chip ecosystems are beginning to action initiatives to onboard additional non-crypto-native users is encouraging. What's more, Solana's tool's overlap with a current 'hot-topic', in AI/ML, could render the tool both more accessible, and more interesting to the Web2-consumer.