Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong has publicly rejected the notion that artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are competing technology megatrends, arguing instead that crypto will serve as the indispensable financial infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. Addressing ongoing debate across the technology sector regarding capital shifting from Web3 toward machine learning development, Armstrong clarified that framing the two fields as mutually exclusive stems from flawed, zero-sum thinking. In reality, cryptocurrency functions as a general-purpose technology—akin to the internet or electric ... (full story)