Overview
- In a keynote at the Consensus conference in Miami, Charles Hoskinson predicted autonomous software agents will handle most online searches and shopping by 2035.
- He said Google, Amazon, and Facebook face risk because these agents do not click ads or show brand loyalty, which undercuts their core revenue models.
- He called AI agents the best boost yet for cryptocurrencies because they can do due diligence, execute payments, and use decentralized finance on a user’s behalf.
- He urged people to keep control of their data, identity, and money, and he backed fixes like account abstraction and chain abstraction to make onboarding simpler and safer.
- He said years of token sprawl — about 11 million issued — slowed progress and called for cooperation, pointing to Google’s interest in the x402 payments protocol as a sign platforms are preparing.