According to TechFlow, analysts at research and brokerage firm Bernstein believe that cryptocurrency micropayments are crucial to avoiding financial bottlenecks in the AI industry.
Analyst Gautam Chhugani said in a client note on Friday that traditional financial systems cannot effectively handle the micropayments required by the AI economy, and cryptocurrencies could solve this problem.
Chhugani said AI agents may need to make extremely small, frictionless payments, such as streaming payments for consuming data or content. Chhugani believes that integrating crypto wallets into large language models may be a good starting point, enabling AI agents to process financial transactions for users through simple natural language commands.
