Australia’s 40-Year Economic Outlook Names AI, Omits Crypto: Coinbase

The omission matters less as a snub than as a signal of where crypto still sits in official planning: absent from the long-horizon framing even as AI is elevated. Coinbase's counterpoint is essentially an argument about dependency — that autonomous agents will need settlement rails the current system does not provide. Whether treasuries begin treating that infrastructure as a policy question, rather than a private-sector one, is the open question.