{"id":31909,"date":"2026-05-08T05:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31909\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:39:17","slug":"ai-agents-could-solve-cryptos-user-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31909\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agents could solve crypto\u2019s user problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

The crypto industry\u2019s embrace of AI is less about chatbots and more about building financial infrastructure for autonomous machines, says Chappy Asel, a former Apple engineer and founder of AI nonprofit The AI Collective.<\/p>\n

Speaking at Consensus Miami, Asel, founder of The AI Collective, a global nonprofit AI community with more than 200,000 members across 150+ chapters, argued that as software agents increasingly make economic decisions on behalf of users and businesses, they will need payment systems capable of handling low-latency, programmable transactions at scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen agents make the majority of financial decisions, economic decisions, how do they transact with each other?\u201d Asel said during the panel. \u201cYou want them to be highly systematic, mechanistic. You want very small, micro transactions. You want very low latency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asel, who previously worked on Apple\u2019s Vision Pro and early Apple Intelligence efforts before launching The AI Collective, framed the convergence of crypto and AI through a practical lens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe number one thing that I’ve heard kind of throughout this conference… even my friends who only know about AI, they know nothing about blockchain, is they’ve heard about agentic payments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Stablecoins already offer 24\/7 settlement and smart contracts allow programmable execution. Marrying them together is the only logical way agentic payments \u2014 without a human in the middle \u2014 can become mainstream. <\/p>\n

Still, the thesis remains early. AI agents are still nascent, and many companies today rely on centralized APIs and conventional payment systems. Attempts to build \u201cagentic payments\u201d infrastructure<\/a> have so far generated little meaningful commercial activity, suggesting the narrative may be developing faster than actual demand.<\/p>\n

Even if machine-to-machine commerce takes longer to materialize, Asel argued the broader overlap between crypto and AI may emerge elsewhere first.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people will tell you, oh, it\u2019s the models aren\u2019t good enough,\u201d Asel said. \u201cIt\u2019s none of that. It\u2019s literally compute, data centers, energy that is driving pretty much all decision-making in AI right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

That framing reflects a wider shift in the AI economy, where access to chips, power, and data center capacity is becoming the defining competitive advantage.<\/p>\n

Parts of the crypto industry are already moving to capture that opportunity. Several bitcoin miners have spent the past year repositioning toward AI hosting and high-performance computing, betting that infrastructure originally built for mining can be repurposed for AI workloads.<\/p>\n

For Asel, the practical advice for founders navigating the uncertainty was simple: experiment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the world is more uncertain than it ever has been… things will only get crazier,\u201d he said. \u201cThat warrants that you are spending more and more time playing around with the new technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crypto\u2019s consumer adoption problem has always been partly a usability problem. <\/p>\n

But AI agents do not need onboarding tutorials, aren’t intimidated by MetaMask, or need help remembering seed phrases. If autonomous software becomes a meaningful economic actor, crypto may have found a user base that actually thinks in code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crypto industry\u2019s embrace of AI is less about chatbots and more about building financial infrastructure for autonomous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[405,7537,6318],"class_list":{"0":"post-31909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agentic-ai","8":"tag-ai-agents","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence-agents","10":"tag-consensus-miami-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}