Onchain AI is a different model. The idea is to rebuild the relationship between users and AI tools so that ownership, governance, and value flow back toward the people actually using the technology. @TheARCTERMINAL is one of the more concrete implementations of this idea. The platform is a decentralized OS, your data is on chain, your interaction history is yours, the credits you earn through rewards programs have real value. The Sentinel security architecture being built into the platform adds a layer of verifiable trust that centralized AI can’t offer by definition. This matters for Web3 users specifically. People who have thought seriously about self-custody, about data sovereignty, about trustless systems they have reasons to care about who controls their AI infrastructure. The same instincts that led someone to move assets off an exchange apply to AI tools that store sensitive context about how they think and work. When a platform’s security is financially incentivized when the people running the infrastructure have a stake in it working the alignment is more durable than when security is just a cost center.