‘AI Is Never Going To Be Dumber Than It Is Now’: Crypto Veteran Sees Bitcoin As Future AI Collateral

Abra CEO Bill Barhydt said that artificial intelligence (AI) capability only compounds forward, and that crypto would end up as a coordination layer under it, arguing Bitcoin’s (BTC) most important role was as collateral rather than as an investment

"AI is never going to be dumber than it is now," Barhydt said on the Wolf of All Streets podcast on Sunday, adding that models got smarter every six months and that real artificial superintelligence would arrive once systems begin solving real-world problems, which he foresaw in the next 4 years. "And I think crypto gets dragged along as the orchestration layer for how to make this work at global scale," he added.

Bitcoin As Pristine Collateral

Barhydt said that the premise that AI agents would transact in stablecoins held only when humans were making the decisions. Once Bitcoin became genuinely trust-chain fungible, he said, agents would prefer an asset that would not lose value to monetary debasement.

He argued that Bitcoin should eventually displace Treasury bonds as the market's pristine collateral and said using Bitcoin as collateral was finally becoming a solved problem. BTC's price was down roughly 1% on Sunday, trading at the $76,580.59 level. On Stocktwits, the retail sentiment around BTC remained in the ‘extremely bullish’ zone, while chatter around it stayed at ‘extremely high’ levels over the past day.