According to the source, OpenAI has positioned ChatGPT as an app platform by introducing GPTs and the GPT Store, enabling third‑party distribution of custom GPTs and US payouts for builders based on user engagement, which formalizes a marketplace for ChatGPT-native apps, source: OpenAI blog, Nov 6, 2023 and Jan 10, 2024. Developers can build agentic applications via the Assistants API and Realtime API with tool use, function calling, retrieval, and live multimodal I/O, making ChatGPT a viable distribution and execution layer for third‑party apps, source: OpenAI Assistants API docs (DevDay 2023) and Realtime API docs (2024). For traders, this strengthens the AI agent and decentralized compute narratives in crypto, with ASI (Fetch.ai alliance) targeting autonomous agents and RNDR addressing GPU rendering demand, which are core use cases likely to see increased developer focus as ChatGPT’s app platform expands, source: Fetch.ai ASI Alliance announcement (2024) and Render Network whitepaper (2023).