Changpeng ZhaoThe founder of the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world Binance BNB / USDadvised artificial intelligence agent services to focus on usefulness rather than launching their own parts on Monday.
What happened: Zhao, popularly known as CZ, has published his “unpopular opinion” on AI agents and their link with the world of cryptocurrency.
“Although the crypto is AI currency, not all agents need its own token,” said CZ. “Launch a room only if you have a scale.
The former CEO of Binance added that agents can use existing cryptocurrencies to be paid for the services they provide.
CZ remarks invited the reactions, with an influential cryptocurrency analyst Benjamin Cowen Presenting the same argument, although this time about the exchanges of cryptocurrency collecting costs in existing tokens rather than launching their own tokens. The replica seemed to be directed to the Binance exchange token, BNB.
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Why it matters: Zhao’s point of view arrives at a time when the AI agent’s cryptocurrency market experiences a significant contraction.
According to Coingecko, the market capitalization of the parts of agent of AI a plunge 67% the year at the start, while its share on the AI market increased from 67% to 45.52% during the drafting of this article. AI key parts such as Super artificial intelligence (FET) and AI16Z (AI16Z) fell by 60% and 88%, respectively, since 2025 started.
It should be noted that the IA agent robots market is expanding, these virtual agents becoming more and more capable of problem solving. In addition, the Web3 AI sector should grow by 89.7% amazing, exceeding the overall growth of 44% of the AI market by 2030.
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