AI-Driven Demand Boosts Crypto Adoption, BlackRock Says

BlackRock's research paper, 'The Machine-Native Economy', argues that AI adoption will drive demand for digital assets. The asset manager says machine-to-machine payments and tokenized infrastructure are likely to benefit from this trend.

The paper suggests that stablecoins and other on-chain instruments are well-suited for high-frequency, low-value transactions between autonomous systems.

BlackRock also proposes the creation of a market for tokenized claims on compute resources, assets that could be traded, used as collateral, or automatically purchased by AI systems.