Eric Trump Says AI Agents Could Become Crypto’s Next Major Growth Engine

Eric Trump said the growth of AI could become one of the biggest drivers of the digital asset market, arguing that AI agents will increasingly rely on crypto for payments and other financial transactions.

Speaking at the Token2049 conference in Singapore on Wednesday, Trump said investment flowing from crypto into AI over the past year had weighed on cryptocurrency prices. However, he argued that faster growth in AI could ultimately benefit the crypto market.

"The thing that's going to spawn the growth of digital assets by far the quickest is actually the AI trade," Trump said. "The faster our kind of friends on the other side of the aisle in AI can sprint toward their goal, the better this industry is going to do."

Trump pointed to the potential for AI agents to use stablecoins and crypto wallets to carry out transactions without direct human involvement. For example, an AI system could potentially book a hotel, arrange travel, or make other purchases while handling payment through a digital wallet.

Trump also backed the broader use of tokenization, arguing that blockchain technology could make assets such as real estate, art and music accessible to a wider group of investors. He said growing stablecoin adoption could also increase demand for U.S. government debt.