When Brian Armstrong posted that AI agents can’t open bank accounts but can use crypto wallets - and that there will soon be more AI agents making transactions than humans - it stuck with me. Not because it was an extraordinary prediction, but because of how casually it hinted at something massive. If AI agents start transacting on our behalf - buying compute, paying for data, negotiating access to tools, coordinating with other machines - the internet could slowly evolve into an economy where software becomes an active economic participant. Imagine waking up and your personal AI agent - let’s call it BaseAgent - has already been working for hours. Overnight, it rented a short burst of GPU compute to process a batch of research you received while you were asleep. It paid a data provider a few cents to access a niche dataset, pulled what it needed, and moved on. By the time you check your phone, the results are already summarized and sitting at the top of your inbox. Later that day, BaseAgent notices a temporary spike in demand across distributed compute markets. Because you’ve allowed it to monetize idle resources, it leases a portion of your workstation’s unused GPU capacity into the marketplace. Somewhere across the world, another agent is paying to borrow those cycles. You don’t notice anything - your computer keeps humming softly under the desk. That evening, BaseAgent notices a new contract posted to a marketplace offering a reward for a rapid breakdown of unusual activity across several DeFi protocols. Rather than taking on the entire job itself, it assembles a small network of specialized agents - one traces wallet flows across chains, another maps liquidity movements, and a third identifies possible arbitrage patterns. Within minutes, the work is completed, the analysis is submitted, and the reward is automatically split among the agents through their wallets. There are no subscriptions to manage, no invoices to chase, and no billing departments in the middle. Just machines negotiating prices and settling payments instantly, around the clock. It sounds futuristic, but it’s not as far away or bizarre as it might seem. AI agents weren’t designed to operate inside traditional financial systems built around accounts, approvals, and human identity. Crypto, on the other hand, was built from day one to move value across the internet without permission. In that sense, the two are a natural match. Once machines can transact freely, they begin behaving like economic participants. They compare prices, outsource work, assemble networks, and move capital faster than any human ever could. If that world emerges - and I think it will - crypto stops being something people speculate on and starts becoming something their software needs. And when tens or hundreds of millions of AI agents begin demanding internet-native money to do business with each other, owning the assets that power that system may look less like speculation and more like being early once again.