AI agents need crypto to operate on a large scale: Coinbase Exec


Crypto will be necessary for agents supplied by artificial intelligence to operate effectively on the financial market, because the infrastructure of the traditional financial system is exceeded, explains John d’Agostino, head of the institutional strategy of Coinbase.

If the AI ​​agents will operate on behalf of the people, then they must operate on “real sources of information”, because it would be “disastrous if they did not do it”, from Agostino said Tuesday, Squawk Box of CNBC.

“Artificial intelligence is an infinitely evolving intelligence, and if you think of blockchain, which is the underlying technology for crypto, as an infinitely evolving source of truth, then these two things work very well together,” he said.

John d’Agostino de Coinbase thinks that AI agents demand that crypto work effectively on the financial markets. Source: CNBC

AI agents are already widespread on the crypto and are used to create web3 applications, launch tokens and interact with the services and protocols independently, certain platforms exploring the use of AI agents for trading.

AI agents need faster money

D’AGOSTINO told CNBC that traditional financial systems were not designed for real -time transactions, a large -scale machine machine, and asking the AI ​​agents to operate on 100 -year “financial rails” while doing it the scale for use will not work.

“If we are going to move to this world and have this wonderful advantage of these agents acting at infinitely rapid speeds, they must act on infinitely fast and evolutionary monetary rails. And that’s what blockchain and crypto,” he said.

“You would not try to broadcast a film on a numbering modem.

No Bitcoin debate against Gold

D’Agostino added that Bitcoin’s performance (BTC) compared to gold have also become a frequently discussed subject, but in its opinion, both should not be compared because bitcoin has characteristics The gold does not do so.