When friends ask me whether to make a move on this one, I usually say: think through the risks first.
Today I came across another post: OpenAI is conducting internal research on deploying contracts on the Ethereum testnet, and an agent with no gas directly used test tokens from an address with a publicly available mnemonic phrase. This kind of development won't change the direction overnight, but it's a clue.
I'll put $ETH on the watchlist for now.