Author: E. Johansson, L. Kelly, DL News; Compiled by Tao Zhu, Jinse Finance
As artificial intelligence becomes headline news, experts say adding cryptocurrencies to the mix will accelerate this trend.
Cryptocurrencies related to artificial intelligence have surged 160%, and their value is expected to approach $55 billion by 2024. At the same time, investors have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into projects that leverage artificial intelligence and blockchain technology.
Market observers have good reason to be optimistic about this trend: Researchers estimate that by 2030, this combination will add an additional $20 trillion to the global economy.
We asked industry experts what they expect from the convergence of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies by 2025.
Mark Beylin, Boost VC Investor
The crypto domain is rapidly becoming the battlefield for developing open-source general artificial intelligence, and this trend will only accelerate in 2025.
We will witness an increasingly tight feedback loop, with more attention, capital, and talent flowing into the field, vying to participate in the most important invention of our generation.
The adversarial crypto environment will become the perfect breeding ground for the new era of reinforcement models, battle-tested to withstand attack vectors aimed at subverting developer intent.
Improved open-source tools will only further accelerate this trend, empowering anyone to deploy their own bots to compete on the big stage.
While some agents may leverage their ability to exploit large protocols for profit, other agents will simply find more efficient ways to extract value from human market participants, who cannot act as quickly or know as much as they do.
Even human-operated bots will struggle against a range of new strategies that rise to the top not through prior knowledge, but through an accelerated process of natural selection, where the best programs have learned how to learn faster than anyone could have imagined.
David Gogel, Vice President of Strategy and Operations at the dYdX Foundation
Artificial intelligence thrives on data, while blockchain provides a verifiable, decentralized, and transparent infrastructure.
Together, they enable revolutionary use cases such as AI-driven smart contracts, decentralized data marketplaces, AI-driven trading strategies, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that use AI-driven insights to adapt in real-time.
These technologies promise systems that are not only intelligent and autonomous, but inherently trustworthy.
In 2024, we see AI tokens gaining popularity on platforms like dYdX, as projects at the forefront of decentralized computing and AI attract market attention.
The success of the AI agent Terminal of Truths shows how far this intersection has come by 2024, autonomously executing tasks and launching a cryptocurrency.
Looking ahead, in 2025, AI tokens and applications will further evolve, benefiting from on-chain AI integration and innovations in AI modeling.
Patrick Friedrich, Founder of onicai
2025 will be the year of the rise of autonomous agents, with web3 providing the infrastructure layer to coordinate and control them.
Large language models (LLMs) will become more efficient, enabling increasingly capable models to run on decentralized networks, edge devices, embedded systems, and user devices like laptops and smartphones.
This will go hand-in-hand with specialized domain-specific LLMs, triggering an even larger wave of accessibility and utility across more industries than we've seen.
Web3 tools for creating, running, and managing AI agents will empower users with the necessary ownership and control, transforming AI from a service to a personal assistant.
This includes autonomous agents that independently complete tasks on behalf of their owners, becoming a form of user extension in both digital and physical spaces.
Calanthia Mei, Co-founder of Masa
As AI agents rise, memes are evolving into something more powerful.
These are not just for the big players - even teenage crypto traders are building AI-driven memes to mark their work and participate in cultural frenzy.
The growing demand for AI agents is accompanied by an urgent need for robust data infrastructure to provide high-quality, relevant data and avoid bottlenecks from API rate limiting.
If AI agents are projected to reach $47 billion by 2030, the value of the data infrastructure layer behind them will be even higher.
Ron Bodkin, Founder and CEO of ChainML
The recent surge in memes related to AI agents indicates a growing demand for advanced AI development in 2025, with huge growth potential, and our team expects major developments in agent platforms.
There will almost certainly be volatility - after all, this is crypto.
But this trend shows a huge demand for more advanced AI agents capable of handling increasingly complex tasks and workflows, which in turn will drive further innovation across the industry.
Additionally, 2025 will see the introduction of oversight and regulation of AI, especially with Trump appointing David Sacks as his new crypto and AI czar.
What form this oversight will take remains to be seen, but it's clear that AI will be a focus of the new administration.
We hope any policies implemented will seek to empower consumers rather than impede industry progress.
Yannik Schrade, CEO and Co-founder of Arcium
The biggest historical obstacle will not be the tokens - it will be the disregard for privacy.
Without it, everything blockchain promises - freedom, self-sovereignty, fair economics, community-driven governance - will be meaningless.
Privacy should not be seen as an add-on, a feature, or a completely separate application. Instead, it needs to become the foundational layer of the blockchain technology stack.
The next major technological revolution will happen at the intersection of artificial intelligence and crypto.
However, there are two paths: one dystopian, and one utopian. To build a future where artificial intelligence and human intelligence coexist in harmony, privacy and confidentiality must be at its core.
