Key highlights:
- Brian Armstrong says leaving crypto to build in AI is scarcity thinking, predicting a symbiotic relationship for both concepts.
- The Coinbase CEO argues that AI agents will require crypto to make payments over traditional finance systems.
- Already, AI agents are using stablecoins for programmable payments, foreshadowing Armstrong’s prediction.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) agents will trigger meteoric growth for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Aware of the changing tide, Coinbase has unveiled a raft of agentic AI tools to capture a significant share of the market, but it faces rising competition from its peers.
AI agents will fire up crypto’s next big rally, says Brian Armstrong
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Internet native payments protocol x402 has recorded over 150 million transactions and $41 million in cumulative volume in less than 10 months since launch. Despite Base controlling a lion’s share of x402 volume, Arbitrum, Solana, and Casper are inching forward.
Several crypto-native companies are building on-chain solutions to support the incoming avalanche of agentic AI to the ecosystem. Zooming out, AI agent startups have raised nearly $2 billion in July, underscoring institutional interest in the emerging sector.
As AI continues to garner demand, Bernstein urged Bitcoin miners to secure AI infrastructure deals to weather the cryptocurrency winter and stay afloat. Hut8 and TeraWulf have entered similar agreements with AI service providers, trading energy infrastructure for cash as miner profitability tanks.
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