Cardano (CRYPTO: ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson said in an interview aired Tuesday that the future of cryptocurrency lies in the hands of AI agents.
Blockchain And AI Agents Compliment Each Other, Says Hoskinson
Speaking with cryptocurrency influencer Michaël van de Poppe, Hoskinson deemed the cryptocurrency space a “near-perfect complement” to agentic commerce.
He said that AI agents are “creative” and don’t have rules by default, in contrast to blockchains, which are “rigid” and rule-based.
“So, if you put these two things together, you basically create a perfect neutral symbolic AI system where you get the best of both worlds.
Hoskinson, who also co-founded Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), said that people will use cryptocurrencies in the long term only through AI agents.
“The agents have increasing intelligence and being able to identify how to safely and easily use cryptocurrencies,” he argued.
The Future Of Fintech?
Agentic payments mark a significant leap in fintech, where AI agents go beyond reasoning and recommendation to finalize transactions on behalf of humans.
Brian Armstrong, CEO of cryptocurrency behemoth Coinbase, has been bullish on the future of AI agents. Earlier this year, he said that AI agents would increasingly transact using cryptocurrency wallets and may soon execute more financial transactions than humans.
Notably, Coinbase has developed x402, an internet-native payment protocol that allows APIs and AI agents to make payments using the USDC (CRYPTO: USDC) stablecoin.
Earlier in April, the Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial (WLFI) platform launched its own payment infrastructure, enabling agents to make payments using the World Liberty Financial USD (USD1) stablecoin.
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