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Я смотрел на экран, полный чисел, когда мне пришла в голову мысль, что большинство систем выглядит стабильными только издалека. Вблизи они дергаются. Цены мерцают. Ленты отстают. Кто-то где-то обновляет что-то поздно. Мы научились принимать этот беспорядок как норму, особенно в криптовалюте, где все движется быстрее, чем наша способность проверить, должно ли это вообще двигаться.
Именно здесь обычно вступают в разговор оракулы. И обычно именно здесь мое внимание отвлекается. На протяжении многих лет разговоры об оракулах следовали одним и тем же рельсам. Ленты, узлы, децентрализация, повторять. Важно, да. Но достаточно знакомо, чтобы вы перестали действительно слушать.

There's this weird thing that happens when you're looking at too many projects at once. Everything starts blending together. Another oracle, another AI narrative, another roadmap promising the future. After a while your brain just filters it out as noise.
That almost happened with APRO. Saw the name a dozen times, kept scrolling. Oracle for AI agents and RWA. Sure. Join the club of projects claiming they're building for emerging markets. Check back in two years when something actually exists.
Then someone I know who's usually pretty skeptical mentioned they'd integrated APRO for their prediction market. Not "thinking about it" or "testing it." Actually using it in production. That got my attention because this person doesn't waste time on infrastructure that doesn't work.
Started looking closer. Kept finding things that didn't match the pattern I expected.
Most projects building for future markets have impressive whitepapers and vague timelines. APRO had shipped ten major pieces of infrastructure in 2025. All operational. Not "coming soon"—live and handling volume across twenty-plus chains.
Most projects talk about solving hard problems theoretically. APRO had two million oracle calls processed, over a hundred AI agents integrated, real usage data showing the infrastructure works under production conditions.
Most projects pick a chain and optimize for it. APRO launched everywhere simultaneously—Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Solana, Aptos, keeps expanding. That's way harder to maintain but makes sense if you believe the markets you're serving will be multi-chain by default.
Started connecting dots I'd missed before.
The AI agent economy is still early. Maybe a hundred agents doing interesting things, most managing relatively small amounts of value. But trajectory is up. More frameworks launching, more teams building, more capital willing to experiment with autonomous systems.
Agents need data they can verify without human intervention. That's the whole point of autonomy. Traditional oracles serve prices and basic feeds fine. But what happens when an agent needs to verify a document? Process a contract? Authenticate something physical? Nothing existed for that until APRO built it.
Two million calls across a hundred-plus agents isn't massive scale yet. But it's real usage in a market that barely existed a year ago. If the agent economy grows the way some people think it will—autonomous agents managing treasuries, executing complex strategies, operating across chains—infrastructure that already works is worth significantly more than infrastructure that's still being built.
Same pattern with RWA. Tokenization has been the narrative forever. Always six months from breaking out, never quite getting there. One reason is verification is genuinely hard.
You can wrap anything in a smart contract. Making people trust that what you wrapped actually exists and matches your claims requires verification that traditional oracles weren't designed to handle. Documents, images, custody proofs, cross-source reconciliation. The messy stuff that proves ownership in the physical world but doesn't translate cleanly to blockchains.
APRO built infrastructure specifically for this. Multi-modal AI processing, dual-layer verification, Proof-of-Record that anchors every claim back to evidence. Whether RWA scales in 2026 or takes five more years, when it does happen the verification problem is solved. One less bottleneck blocking adoption.
Prediction markets are further along. Growing steadily, not explosively. APRO built dedicated infrastructure for event resolution with tamper-proof verification and confidence scoring that evolves as outcomes become clear. NFL data went live this year. Solana and BNB Chain markets integrated it. Real applications settling real bets using the infrastructure.
None of this is theoretical anymore. It's operational. The question isn't whether APRO can build what they claim. They did. Question is whether the markets they built for scale fast enough to justify the complexity.
That's timing risk. Build too early and you're maintaining expensive infrastructure for limited demand. Build too late and you're playing catch-up while others capture market share. APRO chose early, executed well, now waits to see if markets arrive on schedule or delayed.
What made me shift from skeptical to interested was realizing APRO's not competing with other oracles. Different game entirely. Chainlink competes on delivering price feeds faster and cheaper. APRO competes against manual verification processes—people reviewing documents by hand, sending physical items to authentication services, manually settling prediction market outcomes.
The addressable market isn't oracle users. It's everyone currently doing verification manually because automated alternatives didn't exist. If APRO succeeds at making AI-assisted verification reliable enough for high-value assets, they're not just capturing oracle market share. They're expanding what can practically be verified on-chain.
Way bigger opportunity if it works. Also way harder to execute because you're changing behavior not just offering better version of existing solution.
The technical moat is real too. Unstructured data verification isn't commodity work. Making AI reliable enough to trust with valuable assets while keeping it decentralized and auditable is genuinely difficult. APRO has operational experience now—two million validations, proven under real conditions with economic stakes keeping quality high.
Competitors could emerge but they'd be starting from scratch while APRO's already handling production volume and learning from it. Not insurmountable but more defensible than price feeds where everyone's doing roughly the same thing.
Multi-chain positioning could matter more than I initially thought. If AI agents and RWA applications end up being multi-chain by default—seems likely given ecosystem fragmentation—having one oracle that works everywhere beats juggling multiple chain-specific providers. APRO bet on coverage over specialization. Makes the system harder to maintain but more valuable if the bet pays off.
Network effects haven't kicked in yet but the seeds are there. More agents using APRO means more data getting verified means better verification quality means more agents trust it. Classic flywheel. Question is whether they hit escape velocity before markets stall or competition fragments usage.
I keep thinking about what has to happen for this to actually matter at scale.
AI agents need to proliferate beyond experiments into mainstream. Autonomous systems managing real value, making real decisions, operating trustlessly across chains. That's not guaranteed. Could stay niche for years. Could hit regulatory barriers. Could just not be reliable enough that people trust it with serious money.
But if it happens, APRO built the infrastructure those agents need two years before most people thought about the problem.
RWA tokenization needs to finally break out. Not pilots and limited deployments but actual scale. Real estate, private equity, collectibles moving on-chain in volumes that matter. Also not guaranteed. Traditional finance might resist forever. Verification might stay manual because people trust humans more than AI systems.
But if it happens, APRO's the only project that built specifically for the verification problem rather than trying to adapt existing infrastructure.
Prediction markets need to keep growing beyond crypto-native niches into mainstream adoption. That actually looks probable? Markets are expanding, infrastructure improving, regulatory environment slowly clarifying. APRO's positioned well if trajectory continues.
Three separate bets. Don't all need to hit for APRO to be valuable but more that succeed the better. That's probably smart diversification—building for multiple emerging markets instead of going all-in on one thesis that might not play out.
What could derail this? Markets staying niche longer than infrastructure can be maintained. Competition building better solutions by learning from APRO's work. AI verification hitting reliability ceiling that makes it unsuitable for high-value use cases. Regulation making autonomous agents or RWA tokenization impractical.
Any of those could happen. Infrastructure bets are inherently risky because you're building for futures that might not arrive on schedule or at all.
Why am I more interested now than when I started? Execution matters more than vision and APRO ships what they say they'll ship. The markets they're building for are early but trajectories look positive even if timelines are uncertain. The infrastructure works—not theoretical, actually operational handling real volume. The positioning is defensible in ways price feed oracles aren't.
If AI agents become normal and RWA scales, APRO's positioned better than anyone else because they built for those markets when they were still mostly theoretical. If those markets stay small, they built expensive infrastructure for limited demand. Risk-reward seems interesting enough to pay attention.
Infrastructure bets are binary. Either boring or foundational, nothing in between. APRO's trying for foundational by building capabilities nobody else prioritized because the markets didn't obviously exist yet.
Whether that's brilliant or premature is still being determined. But I'm glad I didn't keep scrolling past it like I almost did. Sometimes the things worth paying attention to are the ones that don't scream for attention—they just quietly build and let the work speak.
We'll see what 2026 brings. For now, infrastructure exists, it works, and it's ready for whatever happens next. That's further than most projects talking about AI agents and RWA have gotten.
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Трое разных людей спросили меня, что делает APRO в этом месяце. Три раза я начинал объяснять и наблюдал, как их глаза стекленеют на полпути. Не потому что им было не интересно. Потому что я продолжал объяснять это неправильно.
Первая попытка: “Это оракул для ИИ-агентов и активов реального мира.”
Пустой взгляд. Справедливо.
Вторая попытка: “Он обрабатывает неструктурированные данные, которые традиционные оракулы не могут обработать.”
Все еще ничего. Слишком абстрактно.
Третья попытка: “Он превращает документы и изображения в проверенные данные на блокчейне.”

Потратил недели на сравнение APRO с Chainlink, Band и другими проектами оракулов. Неверное сравнение все это время.
Настоящая конкуренция APRO не другие оракулы. Это ручные процессы, которые они пытаются заменить.
Кто-то, токенизирующий акции до IPO сегодня, не использует другой оракул. Они нанимают кого-то, чтобы вручную проверить таблицы капитализации, проверить страницы регистратора, подтвердить документацию. Дорого, медленно, не масштабируется, но это работает хорошо достаточно, чтобы никто не беспокоился о создании инфраструктуры для автоматизации.
Кто-то, аутентифицирующий коллекционную карточку для представления в блокчейне, не запрашивает оракул. Они отправляют ее в сервис оценки, ждут недели на результаты, доверяют, что сертификат настоящий, надеются, что рынок оценит это справедливо. Ручной процесс от начала до конца.

Резюме в конце года обычно представляют собой просто цифры. X миллионов в TVL. Y интегрированных цепочек. Z объявленных партнерств. Большие цифры, которые звучат впечатляюще без особого контекста того, что они на самом деле означают.
Резюме APRO за 2025 год также содержало цифры. Два миллиона вызовов оракулов. Более ста ИИ-агентов. Двадцать новых цепочек. Восемьдесят агентов, принятых на dev camp. Стандартные метрики, которые хорошо выглядят в твите.
Но там было нечто другое, что мне потребовалось больше времени, чтобы осознать. Они не просто выпустили функции. Они доказали, что инфраструктура может существовать для рынков, которые еще не полностью существуют.