Sandy Kaul, head of digital assets at Franklin Templeton, says investors chasing the AI boom through stocks alone may miss its next phase, arguing that cryptocurrencies and altcoins will be needed to capture the value of autonomous AI agents transacting onchain. Legacy payment rails cannot handle machine-to-machine micropayments: a standard card transaction averages 2%-3% plus a flat fee of approximately $0.30, versus just $0.001 for an AI agent purchasing a single second of compute or a data query. External estimates put agentic commerce as high as $3-$5 trillion by 2030, and 38% of organizations report they will have AI agents working alongside human teams by 2028.
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