Hoskinson Predicts $10T Crypto Future with Agentic Commerce

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson believes that for cryptocurrency to reach its full potential and attract billions of new users, it needs to evolve beyond its traditional focus on faster transactions, cheaper payments, and financial products. He estimates that this could lead to $10 trillion in capital.

Hoskinson sees agentic commerce as a major opportunity for adoption. AI agents will eventually handle everyday purchases and financial transactions for users, allowing people to give an agent a budget and instructions, while the agent manages purchases automatically.

He expects this technology to become a major part of the economy by 2030 and could bring in the next billion users into crypto. Midnight is expected to introduce agentic trading before the end of 2026, allowing users to create wallets for their AI agents and provide them with tokens.