BlackRock Sees AI as Major Catalyst for Digital Assets and Machine-Native Payments

BlackRock Sees AI as Major Catalyst for Digital Assets and Machine-Native Payments
Artificial intelligence could emerge as a primary catalyst for digital assets, according to BlackRock, as the rise of autonomous agentic systems fuels an unprecedented demand for machine-native payments, programmable settlement layers, and tokenized access to compute resources.
As AI agents increasingly execute complex real-world transactions independently, traditional banking infrastructure faces limitations that programmatic digital assets and blockchain rails are uniquely positioned to solve.