Half of Coin Trading by Robots? Is the Era of AI Agents Replacing Humans Opening Up?

Half of Coin Trading by Robots? Is the Era of AI Agents Replacing Humans Opening Up? / AI-generated image

In the global virtual asset market, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven trading, where AI autonomously decides and executes trades without human intervention, is approaching half of all transactions, completely reshaping the investment ecosystem. Coupled with the always-on nature of the crypto market, AI, once merely a supplementary tool, has now evolved into a core trading entity replacing humans.

According to Finbold, a cryptocurrency specialized media outlet, on April 18 (local time), an analysis of early AI pro user data from Binance, the world's largest virtual asset exchange, revealed that 45.7% of interactions within the platform were autonomous activities triggered by the system, not by direct user input. This highlights the explosive increase in the role of AI agents constantly operating in the background, such as scheduled tasks, market monitoring, and conditional execution of internal systems.

The Binance report diagnoses that AI's status in the financial market has evolved from a co-pilot offering advice to investors, to an independent agent-based system that monitors market conditions in real-time and makes autonomous trading decisions. Especially in a fast-paced trading environment, speed and efficiency are absolute weapons, and the 24/7, easily programmable, on-chain data-based virtual asset market is playing a pioneering role in rapidly adopting such technological shifts.

Massive capital flows also strongly support these changes. Market research firm Gartner predicts that global AI spending will surge by 44% year-over-year to $2.52 trillion in 2026. Furthermore, according to Crunchbase estimates, approximately 80% of global venture capital investment in the first quarter of this year, amounting to $242 billion, was concentrated in the AI sector, reshaping the priorities of all industries, including virtual assets.

Virtual asset venture capital funding is also strongly shifting towards AI. According to Silicon Valley Bank data, 40% of virtual asset venture investment in 2025 will be directed to AI-focused companies, more than doubling from 18% in the previous year. Decentralized finance platforms and exchanges are integrating the entire process, from market analysis to opportunity identification and order execution, into a single automated process. With advancements in on-chain identity verification and payment networks, AI agents have reached a level where they can independently and perfectly handle fund transfers and transactions.

Consequently, unlike traditional finance, which is trapped by strict regulations and outdated infrastructure, limiting AI to mere research and advisory roles, the virtual asset ecosystem is directly integrating this technology into the trading execution stage, creating a remarkable disparity. The combination of AI and blockchain appears to have become a grand paradigm shift that goes beyond a temporary trend, fundamentally reorganizing global capital allocation and market structure itself.

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