Build to Belong: 50 Ways to Embrace Web3 x AI in 2025

An interactive, hands-on guide to exploring Web3 x AI through tools, communities, and actions. Whether you're a beginner or experienced, these 50 steps help you experiment, learn, and grow with the ecosystem in 2025. – Abdul Al Ali, Venture Investor, and Brendon Stallaert, Product Analyst, Decasonic 

Web3 Adoption Begins with Product

Here at Decasonic, we pride ourselves on our “founder-first” mentality. To this end, Decasonic goes beyond capital: with a focus on the product lens, we leverage our unique perspective to help early-stage teams bring usable, intuitive, and scalable decentralized applications to life. Through this, we constantly explore how people are onboarding into Web3 and what catalyzes long-term user adoption.

Back in 2023, we shared “Play to Learn: 50 Ways to Embrace Web3 in 2022,” a scavenger-hunt style guide to help people get hands-on with blockchain. But the landscape has evolved. In 2025, Web3 is no longer just about speculation or learning through headlines, but it’s about building and using real products in the space to solve real problems. And, increasingly, these products are infused with artificial intelligence.

This updated guide has 50 product- and AI-centric activities to help you deepen your on-chain journey. Many of the entries are interactive. Some may require experimentation. All, however, are built around applications that reflect the convergence of decentralized infrastructure and intelligent systems. If you’re serious about what comes next and want to help shape it, this is where to start.

Web3 x AI “Onboarding”

1. Set Up a Smart Wallet. Ditch seed phrases—use an Account Abstraction wallet like Safe, or web-native wallets like Privy that offer social recovery and embedded logic.

2. Buy Your First Crypto Asset. Try regulated platforms like Coinbase, Kraken, or fiat onramps like MoonPay on Uniswap.

3. Explore Zora’s NFT Feed. No wallet needed – just explore trending AI art and open culture at Zora.

4. Discover a Token-Gated Discord or Telegram Bot. Use Guild.xyz or Collab.Land to join communities that verify ownership of a token to give you access.

5. Create an Onchain Identity. Register your ENS name at ens.domains or dot.bit and connect it to your wallet.

6. Explore Onchain Commenting on Mirror. Visit Mirror.xyz and post, tip, or comment directly on decentralized articles with your wallet.

7. Collect AI Art NFTs. Browse AI-generated pieces on fxhash, Foundation, or Highlight.

8. Try a Layer 2 Network. Bridge assets to Base, zkSync, or Scroll for faster, cheaper transactions.

9. Interact With a Web3 AI Agent. Paste your ENS or wallet into tools like Reveel to receive AI-generated wallet insights.

10. Take a Web3 Learning Quest. Earn NFTs or tokens by learning through quests on Layer3, RabbitHole, or LearnWeb3.

DeFi & Onchain Finance

11. Swap Tokens via DEX (Decentralized Exchange). Use Uniswap, CowSwap, or 1inch for decentralized token trading – no signups.

12. Earn Yield with Liquid Staking. Stake ETH on Lido, Rocket Pool, or EigenLayer to earn rewards and restake.

13. Mint a Stablecoin. Deposit collateral into MakerDAO, Aave, or Liquity to mint DAI or LUSD.

14. Use a DeFi dashboard. Track your assets and explore protocols visually with Zapper or Zerion.

15. Tokenize Real-World Assets (RWAs). Access on-chain US Treasuries and real estate via Ondo Finance, Backed, or Centrifuge.

AI x Web3 Synergy

16. Try an AI-Powered Crypto Assistant. Use Arkham or Nansen AI to let AI summarize wallet or token activity.

17. Token-Gate Your AI App. Use Collab.Land or Lit Protocol to restrict access to your AI app by NFT or token ownership.

18. Use a DAO Chatbot. Try GPT-trained bots for DAO onboarding and governance inside Wonderverse or CharmVerse.

19. Explore Onchain AI Memory. Use Ceramic or Tableland to understand how AI agents can persist memory on-chain.

20. Generate AI Images and Store Them On-Chain. Use tools like Gooey.AI to create art and save it to IPFS or Arweave.

Governance, Identity & Privacy

21. Vote in a DAO Proposal. Explore DAO governance on Tally, Snapshot, or Agora.

22. Set Up a Multisig Wallet. Create a group-controller wallet on Safe for shared decision-making.

23. Issue a Soulbound Token (SBT). Use Noox or Galxe to mint non-transferable tokens representing achievements.

24. Use a Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Passport. Prove you’re human or unique with Zupass, Privado ID, or Worldcoin.

25. Check your Onchain Reputation. Use Karma or TalentLayer to track your contributions across projects.

Infrastructure, DePIN & Storage

26. Use a Web3 Map or Explorer App. Explore real-world data with DIMO, Bee Maps, or Geo Web.

27. Use Decentralized Storage. Try Arweave, IPFS, or Filecoin to store data.

28. Publish a Zine or Article Onchain. Use Mirror to mint and monetize writing.

29. Use ThirdWeb’s No-Code Editor. Simulate smart contract creation on ThirdWeb, no coding required.

30. Automate With Web3 Bots. Schedule actions like payments or proposals using Gelato or Biconomy.

Creative, Culture & Play

31. Try a Crypto-Powered Browser. Install Brave or Opera Crypto Browser to browse Web3-native content with embedded wallets and token rewards.

32. Participate in an Onchain Game. Explore blockchain-native games like Loot Realms or AI Arena.

33. Collect Music NFTs. Support artists on Sound.xyz, Catalog, or Arpeggi.

34. Explore CC0 (public domain) Projects. Check out public domain ecosystems like Zora Remix or Nouns DAO.

35. Attend a Virtual Web3 Concert. Join events in Decentraland, Spatial, or Hologram.

Build & Scale

36. Build a Web3 App With No Code. Use tools like Replit, ThirdWeb, or Buildfy.

37. Use a Web3-Powered Productivity App. Try on-chain collaboration tools like Tally Forms, Boardroom, or Wonderverse that bring productivity (forms, governance, project management) into the on-chain world.

38. Launch a Tokenized Community. Distribute funds and coordinate with Juicebox or Coordinape.

39. Track Onchain Analytics. Visualize data with Dune, Nansen, or Flipside.

40. Try a GPT That Pulls Token Data. Use PromptHub or DefiLlama GPT to combine AI with real-time blockchain info.

Advanced & Experimental

41. Embed AI Tools in a Web3 App Using No-Code. Use Tavrn or Replit’s AI Web3 templates to create GPT-powered dApps.

42. Interact With Modular Chains. Try rollup-centric chains like Celestia, Dymension, or Avail.

43. Explore RollApp Ecosystems. Use application-specific rollups via Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, or Polygon CDK.

44. Play With Intent-Centric UX. Try new interaction models on Anoma.

45. Explore AI-Powered Token Gating Without Code. Create access rules for content or communities using MintKudos or Guild.xyz, where AI helps you gate access based on wallet activity or token ownership.

46. Use a Chain-Agnostic Wallet. Explore multi-chain wallets like Rabby, Leap, or XDEFI.

47. Launch an Onchain Podcast. Use Pods.media or Decent.xyz to mint, distribute, and fund audio content.

48. Submit a ZK Circuit. Learn zero-knowledge proof development with Noir, SnarkyJS, or zkSync Era.

49. Build in a Local-First Stack. Use decentralized alternatives like Automerge or Holepunch for peer-to-peer apps.

50. Play a Web3 Game That Rewards Learning. Try Crypto The Game or Pirate Nation to learn by doing.

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