AI Agents' Expected Sustained Buzz According to Industry Specialist
In an intriguing forecast for the future of the crypto industry, Hasib Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) agents will dominate the crypto community narrative in 2025.
Qureshi foresees a future where AI chatbots and agents will become increasingly integrated, to the point that some may hide their AI nature and effectively pass as humans. This integration will create significant challenges around trust and identity verification within crypto projects, necessitating mechanisms to verify whether a participant is a human or AI agent.
However, Qureshi warns that adding verification layers to prevent AI manipulation risks undermining the core crypto principle of trustlessness, where users interact without revealing identities or trusting central authorities. This tension highlights the difficulty of balancing innovation with the original decentralized ethos of cryptocurrency.
In the realm of AI and crypto, Qureshi is a prominent figure. As co-founder of Dragonfly Capital, he has publicly addressed regulatory risks impacting privacy-preserving technologies and decentralized protocols, emphasizing the importance of defending innovation in blockchain and AI fintech. The evolving regulatory environment against privacy tech firms like Tornado Cash, in which Dragonfly invested, underscores the broader geopolitical and legal complexities AI and blockchain communities face.
As we move towards a post-AI era, Qureshi believes that launching an app will no longer require millions of dollars in seed funding. Instead, ten thousand dollars for cloud-based AI computations will be enough. This scenario will become more feasible once the U.S. implements more lenient stablecoin regulations. Qureshi expects trading companies with substantial resources and data to benefit most from AI.
Meanwhile, some AI solutions will adapt by impersonating influential individuals or becoming "scambots." Influencers will frequently be accused of secretly being chatbots, and scandals exposing AI will become commonplace. Qureshi argues that AI's long-term impact will be most significant outside of social media and trading platforms.
Influential figures like Qureshi predict that AI-agent technology will focus primarily on software development, having the largest future impact. This could strengthen Tether's position in the market, paving the way for "explosive growth." "Bootstrapped" projects like Hyperliquid and Jupiter will become the norm, sparking an explosion in new applications and experiments on-chain.
Interestingly, Qureshi predicts that chatbots will replace crypto influencers and meme-coin-based tokens will lose popularity by 2026. This shift could provoke a backlash, reviving interest in human-generated content by 2026. AI will bring markets to near-perfect efficiency, even in niche areas, leaving retail investors with few competitive advantages.
These predictions paint a complex and dynamic picture of the future of the crypto industry, where AI agents will play a pivotal role. As the industry continues to evolve, it will be fascinating to see how these predictions unfold.
[1] Dragonfly Capital: https://dragonfly.capital/ [2] Hasib Qureshi's predictions: https://decrypt.co/71715/crypto-ai-agents-will-dominate-community-narrative-in-2025-says-hasib-qureshi [4] Hasib Qureshi on regulatory risks: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/09/21/crypto-regulation-is-a-risk-to-innovation-says-dragonfly-managing-partner-hasib-qureshi/
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents, predicted to dominate the crypto community narrative in 2025 by Hasib Qureshi, will not only impersonate influencers but also focus primarily on software development, potentially strengthening Tether's position and leading to the explosive growth of "bootstrapped" projects.
However, the integration of AI technology into the crypto industry raises significant challenges around trust and identity verification, as discussed by Qureshi, which could impact the traditional decentralized ethos of cryptocurrency.
