TREE NEWS reports: Strategy founder Michael Saylor said AI agents will become core participants in the digital economy and will favor native digital assets such as bitcoin for round-the-clock automated transactions, because the traditional financial system is frictional and unfriendly to AI. He urged US policymakers to shift from restricting to supporting digital assets through modernized regulation, including self-custody rights and allowing banks to custody bitcoin and extend credit against it.
Saylor: AI agents will drive adoption of bitcoin and digital assets
Saylor's framing shifts the adoption argument from retail speculation to machine-to-machine settlement, which matters because it implies demand driven by software rather than sentiment. The policy asks — self-custody rights and bank custody with bitcoin-backed credit — are the concrete part, since those determine whether AI agents can actually transact through regulated rails. Whether policymakers treat agent-driven demand as a reason to modernize rules, or continue viewing digital assets primarily as a risk to contain, is the open question.
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