‘The norm will be to trade with agents’: Crypto founders learn to love—and fear—AI

Artificial intelligence—in both its agentic and robotic forms—was all over last week’s TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore. Humanoid robots, emblazoned with the logos of digital asset platforms, rubbed shoulders with 25,000 attendees. And soon, the most active traders on cryptocurrency exchanges may not be humans at all . “By 2028, the norm will be to trade with agents rather than clicking buttons on a user interface,” Alex Svanevik, CEO of blockchain analytics platform Nansen, told Fortune on the sidelines of the event.