Agentic Economy to Surpass Human Economy by 2026

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong predicts that AI agents will outnumber humans in the not-too-distant future, leading to an agentic economy larger than the human economy.

Armstrong's claim is not about assistants performing individual tasks, but rather autonomous software participants forming a significant economic entity.

The agentic economy would treat AI agents as market actors, capable of initiating activity, making decisions, and interacting with other agents at scale.

This transformation has significant implications for financial infrastructure, which may need to support machine-initiated activity as a first-class use case.