They say – which perceive their environment, make decisions and act autonomously around the clock – will need tools to unlock their full economic potential, which crypto can provide through its ability to transfer funds instantly across borders without permission.
“How we interact with blockchain will probably change indefinitely,” Lennix Lai, chief commercial officer at OKX Global, told the conference.
Fan Wenzhong, an executive director of the China Society for Finance and Banking, forecast the arrival of a so-called “decentralised agent economy”, but said AI’s potential remained under a “glass cover”.
However, Fan said current financial rails were not well suited to such agents, meaning they cannot easily access banking systems or execute payments independently at scale.
“Web3 provides deterministic rules, eliminating the need for authoritative intermediaries, and can operate automatically,” he added.