As crypto trading platforms race to deploy AI agents, here's what a Nasdaq executive is seeing

The exchange is expanding AI use across surveillance, compliance and trading as machines take over decision-making, leaving humans as the final checkpoint. What to know : Nasdaq has rapidly expanded its use of AI agents over the past 18 months, deploying them in market surveillance, compliance and market microstructure analysis while keeping humans in final control. Pranav Ramesh expects crypto trading platforms to be early leaders in retail-facing AI agents for analysis, trade suggestions and execution support, even as systems stop short of full autonomy. Ramesh argues AI agents are already displacing lower-level roles, a trend echoed by recent AI-driven layoffs at firms including Crypto.com, Messari and Block, and one that also underpins his AI sales startup Leadpoet's growth.