BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, says autonomous artificial-intelligence agents could become a significant source of demand for crypto markets. The firm’s view centers on AI systems that can independently purchase data, pay for digital services and rent computing capacity. Such activity could create recurring transactions between software agents and the networks or services they use, potentially increasing the role of crypto in machine-to-machine commerce. The argument points to an emerging use case rather than a forecast for any specific token or asset. BlackRock’s comments were reported by Decrypt on September 23, 2026, as investors continue to assess how AI adoption could affect digital-asset infrastructure and demand. The thesis covers the broader crypto sector, including projects associated with data, computing, decentralized applications and financial services, but the source does not identify individual tokens as direct beneficiaries.
