Binance: Africa Can Spearhead Agentic AI Adoption
African businesses have an opportunity to take the lead in adopting agentic artificial intelligence (AI), rather than following more developed markets, according to cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
Binance's Director of Government Relations and Strategy for Africa Larry Cooke said that the continent's experience with mobile money and other digital technologies provides a foundation for businesses to adopt AI agents quickly where there are clear use cases.
Cooke noted that more than 40 percent of enterprise applications will incorporate task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than five percent in 2025. In South Africa, the AI agents market is projected to grow at an annual rate of more than 52 percent through 2033.
Binance has expanded into agentic AI through Agent OS, a developer platform that allows AI applications to connect to trading, market data, wallet, payment, and on-chain functions through user-defined permissions. The platform addresses the fragmentation developers face when building agentic finance applications across crypto and traditional markets.