Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing back against narratives that artificial intelligence competes with crypto, arguing instead that AI agents will drive fresh demand for blockchain-based
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing back against narratives that artificial intelligence competes with crypto, arguing instead that AI agents will drive fresh demand for blockchain-based financial infrastructure. Armstrong took to X this week to promote what he calls agentic finance, or AiFi, pointing to Coinbase’s Base network, the USDC stablecoin, and the x402 payment protocol as the core building blocks.
‘AI being a megatrend takes nothing away from crypto,’ Armstrong wrote, adding that AI agents will require programmable money rather than traditional banking rails. ‘If anything, it makes crypto more important,’ he said.
