Amid the surge in computing power demand, Metis is undertaking an ambitious project—integrating AI "into" the blockchain. Today, Metis core coordinator Natalia announced a straightforward new roadmap: by 2026, to achieve true deep integration of AI with high-performance public chains, no more empty talk.

They have already built a three-layer architecture. The settlement layer Andromeda has transaction fees as low as 1 cent, with confirmation times under two seconds; the high-performance layer Hyperion has boosted processing capacity by over 50%; and the most aggressive is the application data layer LazAI, which directly uses METIS as the sole Gas token, truly connecting the entire ecosystem economy.

Data doesn't lie. The AI creation platform CreateAI minted 20,000 works within three hours—what does this mean? The whitelist for the companion AI Lazbubu caused over 90,000 people to queue up, indicating that the application itself has strong stickiness. Additionally, the payment tool GMPayer can now enable AI agents to autonomously conduct transactions. All these applications are running on Metis, this high-speed chain.

But there's a problem. The AI boom is also triggering a storm in the hardware market—memory prices are soaring. AMD's 256G model jumped from 10,000 yuan to 40,000, and entire memory modules even broke through 4 million. Such a rapid surge—will it become a brake for the industry?

From another perspective, if on-chain AI applications are to explode but hardware costs are facing a crisis, is this a short-term pain or a long-term lock-in? Different answers determine where the ceiling of the entire track lies.