The arrival of the AI era: Why are robots inevitably choosing cryptocurrencies?

【Blockchain Rhythm】On December 18th, a founder of a leading exchange shared an interesting perspective during a year-end review — that in the future, AI and robots will widely adopt cryptocurrencies, which is almost an inevitable trend.

Why do they say that? Their logic is quite straightforward. The traditional financial system is completely incompatible with intelligent agents — opening a bank account requires KYC verification, selfies, and card swipes, operations that are simply impossible for lifeless robots. Cryptocurrencies, on the other hand, are inherently designed for program interaction — 24/7 operation, no intermediaries, no identity verification, pure peer-to-peer value transfer.

This industry insider also mentioned a new concept — deep payments(deep payments), believing it could become the main interaction layer for robots in the digital world. In simple terms, it refers to micro-payments and value exchanges between intelligent agents conducted via cryptocurrencies, which will support the entire AI economic ecosystem.

Of course, he also admitted that this topic is not yet widely discussed, but from a technical logic perspective, the path seems to be already paved. The combination of AI proliferation + cryptocurrencies + permissionless payments might develop faster than we imagine.