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Abstract

The deployment of embodied artificial intelligence via world-model-based robotic systems presents a transformative opportunity for blockchain infrastructure, establishing urgent demand for trustworthy data provenance, cross-organizational governance, and incentive-compatible sharing across decentralized ecosystems. Simultaneously, advances in quantum computingrecognized by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics and the Turing Awardthreaten the cryptographic primitives securing these emerging data economies, creating an interdependent infrastructure imperative: the long-lived verification required by embodied AI systems depends entirely on crypto-agile architectures capable of withstanding quantum adversaries. This tutorial examines blockchain as the essential coordination layer bridging this dual transition, evolving from financial substrate to foundational Cyber-Physical-Social Systems infrastructure that simultaneously secures against quantum cryptanalysis and enables scalable, trustworthy data economies. Unlike conventional surveys, the session opens with an immersive AWS Braket demonstration that engages participants with superconducting, trapped-ion, and neutral-atom hardware to empirically assess cryptographic threat timelines and witness signature transitions from ECDSA to post-quantum schemes. This foundation supports five integrated modules progressing from embodied AI and worldmodel requirements through quantum hardware reality and evidence-based security migration, to scalable cross-shard architectures via BrokerChain protocols, trustworthy data economies implementing Croissant metadata standards and robotic learning provenance, and industry ecosystem integration for multimodal cloud deployment. Each module transitions logically to form a cohesive pipeline from empirical security assessment through scalable coordination to production-ready governance. By bridging quantum hardware realities with embodied AI data requirements, this tutorial charts the evolution of blockchain as the unified infrastructure for next-generation decentralized intelligent environments, providing participants with open-source experimental frameworks and actionable roadmaps for architecting quantum-resistant, interoperable, and data-trustworthy systems.