AI agents will be primary users of blockchain, NEAR co-founder says

Polosukhin argues that AI will become the primary interface layer for everything online, including crypto, abstracting away wallets, explorers and transaction hashes. What to know : For years, the crypto industry has searched for its next breakout moment — something on the scale of DeFi summer or the NFT boom. Artificial intelligence, meanwhile, has quietly embedded itself into daily life. Developers use ChatGPT as a co-pilot. Consumers rely on AI assistants to draft emails, plan travel and increasingly manage workflows. Crypto, by comparison, still feels infrastructural. Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, believes that divide is about to collapse — but not in the way many expect.(Coindesk)