According to Cointelegraph, industry executives said that by 2025, artificial intelligence agents will transform Web3 and become an early use case for cryptocurrency staking and on-chain transactions.
Agentic AI is already reshaping the digital economy, building Web3 applications, issuing tokens and interacting with humans. Raiinmaker’s J.D. Seraphine said AI agents will play a more important role in decentralized communities.
However, decentralized AI faces technical challenges, regulatory barriers and centralization issues. Michael Casey of the Decentralized AI Society warned that centralized systems could lead to risks.
According to the VanEck report, as of December, Web3 had about 10,000 AI agents, earning millions of dollars per week from on-chain activities. It is expected that by the end of 2025, there will be 1 million AI agents on the blockchain network.
Matt Hougan of Bitwise said that the interaction between AI agents and cryptocurrencies has unlimited potential. In 2024, the market value of Agentic AI-related tokens will reach $10 billion.
Early use cases include cryptocurrency staking on behalf of human token holders. Hougan said AI agents taking part in staking is a logical first step.
Eliza, the agent of ai16z, manages the on-chain liquidity pool independently, with an annualized return of over 60%. However, the on-chain AI model lags behind its centralized counterparts in terms of speed and computing power.
Seraphine pointed out that creating viable decentralized AI agents requires finding decentralized solutions to ensure high-quality training data and protect user privacy.