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# AI Agents and Crypto: The Future of Commerce or the Ultimate Middleman Revenge?
- URL: https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-agents-and-crypto-the-future-of-commerce-or-the-ultimate-middleman-revenge/
- Published: 2025-01-30T07:03:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-27T05:25:00.000Z
- Description: AI and crypto are teaming up to kick traditional commerce to the curb, promising a decentralized future where goods move seamlessly across global markets, without centralized gatekeepers.
- Author: Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
- Tags: News, #seo-post-1

[AI](https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-speaker/) and crypto are teaming up to kick traditional commerce to the curb, promising a decentralized future where goods move seamlessly across global markets, without centralized gatekeepers.

Agentic Commerce will democratize trade, but let’s be honest: this is also about cutting out the middleman and making AI the new kingpin.

AI agents are soon going to make all the deals: matching buyers and sellers, automating transactions with smart contracts, and eliminating the friction that keeps e-commerce in silos.

- Smart AI agents scrape, aggregate, and match supply and demand.
- Crypto protocols ensure trustless transactions without intermediaries.

Will AI and blockchain liberate global trade or just replace old monopolies with new ones? If data is power, then AI-powered commerce agents are poised to own the flow of goods. Would you trust an AI to run global trade?

Read the full article on [Coindesk](https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/01/29/how-ai-agents-and-crypto-will-revolutionize-commerce?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com).

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