BlackRock: The potential of AI-driven crypto demand is still underestimated

BlockBeats news, September 23 - BlackRock stated in its latest research report "The Machine-Native Economy" that the widespread adoption of AI could become an underappreciated driver of demand for digital assets. With the rise of AI agents and machine-to-machine payments, demand for stablecoins, native crypto assets, and other on-chain assets may further grow.

BlackRock believes that AI agents need to conduct high-frequency, low-value, and even sub-1-cent machine-to-machine transactions around the clock, while the traditional payment system has limitations in account setup, authorization, fees, and settlement efficiency. Stablecoins are particularly well-suited for such transactions and may become the primary transactional digital asset in AI agent commercial activities.

Additionally, the AI computing power market may also open up new application scenarios for crypto assets. As AI companies' demand for computing power continues to grow, computing power providers could in the future tokenize the rights corresponding to computing capacity, enabling them to be transferred, traded, or used as collateral, and AI agents could also automatically purchase needed computing resources through related markets.

BlackRock believes that AI is expected to become a structural catalyst for digital asset adoption, and digital assets may also become important infrastructure for the AI economy. Currently, this potential connection is still underestimated.