🌐 Franklin Templeton: Agentic AI Is Crypto's Next Killer App
Franklin Templeton's Head of Digital Assets, Sandy Kaul, argues that autonomous AI agents - software that pays and transacts on your behalf without approval at every step - will run on blockchain rails rather than traditional card networks. A standard credit card transaction costs 2-3% plus roughly $0.30 in fixed fees and takes 1-3 business days to settle, while an AI agent buying a second of computing power or a single data query can cost as little as $0.001 and settle in seconds on chains like Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain. Kaul says this machine-to-machine micropayment economy could become a major new demand driver for crypto infrastructure, and recommends investors extend portfolio exposure to altcoins tied to blockchain-based AI applications, not just AI chip and infrastructure stocks.
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