Is 2025 the Year of Crypto x AI Agents?

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🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A reading and discussion inspired by: https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/12/24/2025-will-be-the-year-that-ai-agents-transform-crypto https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/01/09/the-ai-revolution-will-spawn-millions-of-new-tokens Sponsored by: Ledn Need liquidity without selling your Bitcoin? For 6+ years, Ledn has been the trusted choice for Bitcoin-backed lending. With transparency, security, and trust at our core, we help you access your BTC’s wealth while HODLing. Discover what your Bitcoin can do at ledn.io/borrowing. Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribe to the newsletter: https://breakdown.beehiiv.com/ Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.
0:09.3	It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.
0:18.3	What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, January 12th, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday.
0:24.0	Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it,
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0:34.9	breakdown pod. All right, friends, well, one of the big questions throughout this bull cycle has been,
0:40.6	what is the non-Bitcoin narrative going to be?
0:43.6	And we seem to start to be getting an answer.
0:46.8	The answer is, of course, AI agents, and specifically the interplay between AI agents
0:52.0	and crypto.
0:53.1	This is obviously of special interest to me,
0:55.2	given that I have an AI podcast and an AI startup as well. And so let's read two recent pieces
1:00.8	about the intersection of these markets and then come back and discuss them. The first comes from
1:06.5	Jack Purdy from Masari and is called 2025 will be the year that AI agents transform crypto.
1:12.2	I'm going to turn it over to an 11 Labs version of myself, speaking of AI, and then I'll be back.
1:17.9	2025 will be the year that AI agents transform crypto. An AI agent helped drive a meme coin to a
1:24.7	billion dollar market cap this year, But the real crypto-XAI innovations
1:28.1	are coming in 2025. One of the most significant emerging trends of 2024 has been the interplay
1:33.7	between artificial intelligence, AI, and the crypto ecosystem. Historically, this has primarily
1:38.3	been on the infrastructure side, affecting various layers of the stack such as decentralized compute,
1:43.0	storage, and model training, and inference.
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