Crypto30 September, 20262 min read
Utkarsh Ahuja Says Autonomous AI Agents Will Run On Blockchain And Stablecoins
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AI agents and blockchain rails
Utkarsh Ahuja of Moon Pursuit Capital argued that if AI becomes as economically important as markets expect, the economy will run on blockchain and digital assets. Ahuja said autonomous AI agents will negotiate with other agents, purchase computing resources, pay for data, execute transactions, and manage financial decisions within parameters established by humans. Ahuja said blockchain infrastructure is unusually well suited because money can become programmable, and he pointed to stablecoins as a bridge between blockchain's programmability and a familiar unit of account.
Ahuja said blockchains will not solve every aspect of identity and provenance, but their ability to provide verifiable, shared records makes them a natural part of the infrastructure stack. Ahuja concluded that investors should look for infrastructure solving a genuine problem created by greater automation, including payments, settlement, identity, cybersecurity, custody, and the rails connecting traditional and digital markets.
Robinhood adds agentic trading
Robinhood announced Robinhood Agents, a fully embedded AI experience that can analyze markets, build strategies, and trade on a user's behalf around the clock. Morgan Stanley watched Robinhood's agentic trading and U.S. perpetual futures as its "two key products," and Morgan Stanley analyst Michael Cyprys held an 'Overweight' rating alongside a $150 price target. Robinhood said qualifying customers can go long or short on Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP), Dogecoin (DOGE), Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK) and Hyperliquid (HYPE) with no expiry dates, with leverage increased to 10 times on Bitcoin and Ether and 3 times on everything else.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said the product was "designed with safety from the very beginning" and added that trade approvals are on by default so customers can review everything the agent does before it executes. Unchainedcrypto said Robinhood planned to let eligible U.S. customers trade crypto perpetual futures in its app with up to 10x leverage, and it reported that profit and loss would settle every 15 minutes.
Quote.Trade launches AI-native dark pool
Quote.Trade unveiled the V6 launch of its AI-native crypto dark pool DEX built for humans, bots, and AI agents at Korea Blockchain Week.
Quote.Trade said V6 combines strategy-blind private execution with non-upgradeable smart-contract funding, and it stated that the V6 core cannot be modified in place, with new logic requiring a new deployment and controlled migration.
Quote.Trade said V6 introduces deeper aggregated liquidity and continuously updated, size-specific quotes across more than 1,500 markets, and it described that traders see the all-in executable price for their requested size before committing.
Quote.Trade said the announcement followed a $4 million capital raise earlier this year to expand its AI-native dark pool infrastructure and deepen liquidity relationships, and it reported that Quote.Trade appointed Michael Terpin, John Divine, and William P. Evans as strategic advisors.
Quote.Trade said its Alpha League trading competition runs through December 31, 2026, with a $2,000 USDC prize pool in the Live division and a $1,000 in prizes in the Paper division.