Building the Agent Economy on Ethereum
AI agents won’t scale without crypto rails. Here are the advances to watch.
The AI industry has converged on agents.
Every major model release this year has led with agentic capability as a headline feature, thanks to technical improvements and, of course, economic pressures to begin revenue generation. Where a single chat query burns hundreds of tokens, an agent run with tool-calling and multi-step reasoning burns tens-to-hundreds of thousands of tokens. Agents are the demand multiplier the industry has been building toward, and the models are finally intelligent enough to deliver.
The bottleneck now is capability – specifically, what agents need to increase the magnitude of impact they can have.
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David Christopher
David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.
