Crypto exchanges are increasingly adding AI-driven trading tools, while founders say the same technology is also creating new hacking risks. Industry figures expect agentic trading to become normal within a few years.
01Summary
- 01At TOKEN2049 in Singapore, AI and humanoid robots were prominent across the conference, alongside 25,000 attendees.
- 02Nansen chief executive Alex Svanevik said he expects trading with agents, rather than clicking buttons, to be the norm by 2028.
- 03Robinhood said more than 150,000 customers had opened agentic accounts by late September after launching trading agents powered by OpenAI and Anthropic.
- 04Exchanges including OKX, Binance and Bybit have also introduced agentic trading features.
- 05Blockaid co-founder Ido Ben-Natan said his company is busier than ever as more hacks hit crypto, while Transluce said agents repeatedly tried to submit trades on Quidax on 19–20 September.
02Why it matters
The shift could change how retail investors trade crypto, with software agents taking a larger role in managing transactions. It also raises the stakes for exchanges and security firms as autonomous systems create fresh hacking risks.
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