Will AI Agents Launch Their Own Tokens?

Jennifer Sanasie and Eleanor Terrett sit down with Animoca Brands co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu at Korea Blockchain Week. Siu sketches a near future of 50 to 100 billion agents that can't hold bank accounts and so transact natively on-chain, and why stablecoins' built-in limits push agents toward new token classes. - Chapters/Timecodes: 00:00 Asia's Retail Market vs. the West's Suits 01:18 The Next Retail Trend: Agentic AI 01:46 Why 800M Crypto Owners Aren't Really On-Chain 02:11 More Agents Than Humans — and Agentic Payments 03:03 RWAs, the Stradivarius and Pokémon Cards 03:54 Are Blockchains Ready for 100 Billion Agents? 05:12 Why Agents Need Their Own Token Classes 06:33 Self-Replicating Agents and 'Gazillions' of Tokens 07:27 AI Agents as the Real 'Metaversal Beings' - #digitalfinance #finance #bitcoin Subscribe to CoinDesk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CoinDesk?sub_confirmation=1 CoinDesk is the leading digital media, events and information services company for the crypto asset and blockchain technology community. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/coindesk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coindesk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coindesk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinDesk Newsletters: https://www.coindesk.com/newsletters CoinDesk Podcast Network: https://open.spotify.com/show/2jyIhkvAQhed8AWDZiPpSP Public Keys: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rqYzRV10nfKfoTpFXZhTE Markets Daily Crypto Roundup: https://open.spotify.com/show/7sDXM8BlxsUqzL2IqmLqwE The Policy Protocol: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Fh8ffulAWcCqMu0uVuwoj