Coinworld News: In Silicon Valley in 2026, AI-era tokens are becoming the new currency to measure engineer value, replacing GitHub contributions and base salaries. OpenAI engineers process 210 billion tokens per week, equivalent to rewriting Wikipedia 33 times; Anthropic developers incur monthly token costs of $150,000. Meta, Google, and other companies have incorporated token consumption into performance evaluations, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that AI tokens will become the fourth pillar of compensation. However, rising token prices have sparked concerns about false prosperity, as increased compute costs may exacerbate unequal resource allocation.