Tether predicts one trillion AI agents trading crypto autonomously by 2040.
CEO Paolo Ardoino told The Block’s Big Brain podcast that each AI agent will run an autonomous wallet to trade stablecoins like USDT and Bitcoin. These AI entities will interact without humans, driving automated commerce.
Ardoino dismissed traditional banks hosting these AI wallets. He bets on crypto assets for AI financial independence, highlighting USDT’s dominant $155B circulation. Tether’s wallet-development kit aims to ease integrating AI wallets into non-custodial solutions. 
This vision isn’t just talk. In April 2024, Tether launched Tether Data, an open-source AI project. A month later, it rolled out Tether AI to build a massive peer-to-peer network of AI agents.
Two US stablecoin bills could pass by summer’s end, potentially pushing crypto’s market cap beyond $2 trillion by 2028.
Paolo Ardoino stated:
"One trillion AI agents will use digital wallets to trade via stablecoins and Bitcoin within 15 years."
"Each AI agent will have an autonomous wallet."
"These intelligent entities, capable of interacting with each other without human intervention, would therefore become the new actors of automated commerce."
"Traditional banks like JPMorgan won’t host these entities. Financial autonomy of AI bots, made possible by assets like USDT, is the future."
The rise of AI agents powered by crypto could reshape the global economy, merging blockchain with automation to power intelligent trade at scale.
