Anthropic · OpenAI · Singapore · Coinbase · Fortune Technology
‘The norm will be to trade with agents’: Crypto founders learn to love—and fear—AI
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Artificial intelligence—in both its agentic and robotic forms—was all over last week’s TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore.
Key facts
- On Sept. 19–20, agents repeatedly tried to submit trades on cryptocurrency exchange Quidax, according to independent non-profit research lab Transluce
- Algorithmic traders have been using machine learning forever,” Liz Martin, head of Coinbase Institutional, told Fortune
- More than 150,000 customers had already opened agentic accounts on Robinhood by late September, according to the company
- Last month, Robinhood rolled out trading agents powered by OpenAI and Anthropic, allowing its roughly 29 million users to tap the technology to manage their trades
Summary
And soon, the most active traders on cryptocurrency exchanges may not be humans at all. Last month, Robinhood rolled out trading agents powered by OpenAI and Anthropic, allowing its roughly 29 million users to tap the technology to manage their trades. Trading with software is nothing new. More than 150,000 customers had already opened agentic accounts on Robinhood by late September, according to the company.