Yat Siu from Animoca Ventures joined the Deep Dive podcast to discuss autonomous AI agents and blockchain integration. Key point: AI agents need money to transact, and blockchain enables them to pay for their own cognition and inference costs—potentially allowing them to exist indefinitely by self-funding.

Siu contrasted on-chain vs. off-chain agents, noting that on-chain activities are native to AI but create friction for human users, which remains a barrier to mass adoption. His view: agents will act as natural proxies to bridge this gap between humans and blockchain infrastructure.

Full interview available on Deep Dive podcast and Spotify.