Where will AI and encryption go in 2025? Six experts share their thoughts.

Authors: E. Johansson, L. Kelly, DL News; Compilation: Tao Zhu, Golden Finance

As artificial intelligence becomes a headline news, experts say that incorporating cryptocurrency into it will accelerate this trend.

Cryptocurrencies related to artificial intelligence have surged by 160%, and their value is expected to reach nearly $55 billion by 2024. Meanwhile, investors have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into projects utilizing artificial intelligence and blockchain technology.

Market observers have reason to be optimistic about this trend: researchers estimate that by 2030, this combination will add another $20 trillion to the global economy.

We asked industry experts what they expect from the intersection of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies in 2025.

Mark Beylin, Boost VC investor

The field of encryption is rapidly becoming the battlefield for the development of open-source general artificial intelligence, and this trend will only accelerate in 2025.

We will witness an increasingly close feedback loop, with more attention, capital, and talent pouring into the field, vying to participate in the most important invention of our generation.

The adversarial encrypted environment will be the perfect incubator for strengthening models in the new era, and these models, tested in actual combat, can resist attack media intended to subvert developer intent.

Improved open-source tools will only further accelerate this trend, helping anyone deploy their own robots to battle on the big stage.

Although some agents will use their ability to utilize large protocols to profit, other agents will only find more efficient ways to extract value from human market participants, because human market participants cannot act as quickly or know as much as they do.

Even human-operated robots will struggle with a series of new strategies, which are not based on prior knowledge but rise to the top through an accelerated process of natural selection. The best programs have learned how to learn at a faster pace than anyone can imagine.

dYdX Foundation Vice President of Strategy and Operations David Gogel

Artificial intelligence relies on data for vigorous development, while blockchain provides a verifiable, decentralized, and transparent infrastructure.

Together, they enable revolutionary use cases such as AI-powered smart contracts, decentralized data markets, AI-driven trading strategies, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) that use AI-driven insights to adapt in real-time.

These technologies promise systems that are not only intelligent and autonomous but also inherently trustworthy.

In 2024, we see that AI tokens are becoming popular on trading platforms such as dYdX, and projects at the forefront of decentralized computing and AI are attracting market attention.

The success of the artificial intelligence agent Terminal of Truths indicates how far this intersection has come in 2024, as it autonomously executes tasks and launches a cryptocurrency.

Going forward,** in 2025, AI tokens and applications will evolve further, thanks to innovations in on-chain AI integration and AI modeling. **

Patrick Friedrich, Founder of onicai

2025 will be a year of autonomous agents taking off, and web3 will provide the infrastructure layer for coordinating and controlling them.

Large language models (LLMs) will become more efficient, enabling better and better models to run on decentralized networks, edge devices, embedded systems, and user devices such as laptops and smartphones. **

This will go hand in hand with specialized LLMs targeting specific fields, and will unleash a greater wave of accessibility and practicality in more industries than we have ever seen.

Web3 tools for creating, running, and managing AI agents will give users the necessary ownership and control, transforming AI from a service to a personal assistant.

This includes autonomous agents that represent their owners in completing tasks independently, thus becoming a form of user extension in both digital and physical spaces.

Calanthia Mei, Co-founder of Masa

With the rise of artificial intelligence agents, Meme is evolving into something more powerful.

These are not just for big players - even teenage cryptocurrency traders are building AI-driven memes to tag their work and participate in cultural frenzy.

The growing demand for AI agents is accompanied by an urgent need for powerful data infrastructure to provide high-quality, relevant data and avoid bottlenecks caused by API rate limits.

If artificial intelligence agents are expected to reach $471 billion by 2030, then the value of the data infrastructure layer behind them will be even higher.

Ron Bodkin, Founder and CEO of ChainML

The recent surge in memes related to AI agents suggests that the demand for advanced AI development will continue to grow in 2025, with tremendous growth potential. Our team anticipates significant development for the agent platform.

There will almost certainly be fluctuations - after all, this is cryptocurrency.

However, this trend indicates that there is a huge demand for more advanced AI agents that can handle increasingly complex tasks and workflows, which in turn will drive further innovation throughout the industry.

In addition, supervision and regulation of AI will be introduced in 2025, especially with Trump appointing David Sacks as his new crypto and AI czar.

The form of this supervision remains to be seen, but it is obvious that AI will become a new focus of government attention.

We hope that any policy we implement will seek to empower consumers without hindering industry progress.

Yannik Schrade, CEO and Co-Founder of Arcium

The biggest obstacle in history won’t be tokens - it will be neglecting privacy.

Without it, everything promised by blockchain - freedom, autonomy, fair economy, community-driven governance - will be meaningless.

Privacy should not be treated as an add-on, feature, or entirely separate application. Instead, it needs to be the foundational layer of the blockchain technology stack.

The next major technological revolution will happen at the intersection of artificial intelligence and encryption.

However, there are two paths: one is dystopian and the other is utopian. To build a future where artificial intelligence and human intelligence coexist harmoniously, privacy and confidentiality must be at its core.