BlackRock report states AI agents may drive demand growth for crypto assets
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The BlackRock report states that AI agents could drive or contribute to the growth of the next wave of crypto-asset demand.
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BlackRock:AI Agents may become an important driver of the next wave of demand growth in the crypto market
PANews September 23 reported, citing Decrypt, that BlackRock's digital assets research team stated in its report “The Machine-Native Economy” that, as AI agents gradually gain the ability to autonomously execute tasks and make payments,AI they may become an important driver of future demand growth for crypto assets. BlackRock believes that AI agents need to make API calls, retrieve data, rent computing power, and make other frequent, low-value payments. Traditional bank accounts and card networks are not well suited to such scenarios, whereas stablecoins can provide around-the-clock, near-instant settlement. The report also proposed that packaging computing power into standardized on-chain contracts could become a new digital asset use case, with related assets available for trading, use as collateral, or automated settlement. Citing data, BlackRock stated that 2025 annual stablecoin adjusted transaction volume exceeded 11000000000000 USD, as of...
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Key points
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BlackRock's Digital Assets Research team released “The Machine-Native Economy.”
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The report states that AI agents are gradually gaining the ability to autonomously execute tasks and make payments.
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The report states that AI high-frequency, low-value payment scenarios for agents are not well suited to traditional bank accounts and card networks.
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The report states that stablecoins can provide an always-on, near-instant settlement method for payments.
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The report proposes that packaging computing power into standardized on-chain contracts could become a new application scenario for digital assets.
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The report defines AI agents as software systems capable of executing tasks and making payments autonomously. It argues that when such systems make frequent small payments, stablecoins may be more suitable than traditional payment methods; computing power could also be turned into digital assets that can be traded, used as collateral, or settled automatically on-chain.
Why it matters to readers
If the scenario described in the report develops,AI agents’ payment needs may become a new source of demand for crypto assets.
This suggests that AI agents and crypto assets may become integrated through automated payments, stablecoins, and computing-power trading.
Risks and unknowns
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Could become was an assessment in the report and did not mean that the outcome had occurred or was certain.
The evidence did not state the implementation time, scale, or actual adoption of the relevant applications.
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