Aptos CEO Advocates Blockchain Access for AI Agents

AI agents should be granted access to blockchain assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokens, and tokenized instruments such as real estate, according to Aptos Labs CEO Avery Ching in a conversation with The Block.

“There is no reason why we shouldn’t have on-chain real estate, stocks, bonds, treasuries, money market funds, pre-IPO. All these things should eventually move on-chain,” he said.

Once AI agents gain access to such assets, they will be able to create personalized portfolios tailored to each user’s goals. As funds transition on-chain, new opportunities will arise, such as using tokenized real estate as collateral for loans, Ching emphasized.

“It’s a really interesting role when you have a centralized [ecosystem]—where all liquidity is concentrated in one place—and a decentralized infrastructure that can support the entire global economy in one place. That’s what’s really interesting,” noted the CEO of Aptos Labs.

He also believes that blockchain can serve as a safeguard against misinformation generated by artificial intelligence. For instance, by preserving a hashed version of data on the blockchain, one can prove its original content and timestamp if someone later attempts to present a counterfeit version as genuine.

“I think AI and cryptocurrencies are an interesting way to protect data that can be placed in a ledger and then observe how it changes and how information is improved or distorted by AI in the future,” he said.

Ching suggested that the adoption of tokenized stocks might begin outside the United States, where access to such securities remains limited.

Earlier, at the Token2049 conference, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao urged the crypto industry to create AI agents with tokens that demonstrate “real applicability,” calling most existing examples “useless.”