Hasib Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, is confident that AI agents will dominate the crypto community narrative in 2025.

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However, he notes that current technologies primarily resemble chatbot-meme coin hybrids rather than truly autonomous systems—most solutions are “human-controlled behind the scenes.” Qureshi highlights Freysa as an exception to this trend.

Over time, Qureshi believes these chatbots will replace crypto influencers, and meme-coin-based tokens will lose popularity. By 2026, the mass proliferation of such agents could provoke backlash, reviving interest in human-generated content. According to him, some AI solutions will adapt by impersonating influential individuals or becoming “scambots.”

“In the future, chatbots will no longer monetize through meme coins as they do now. Instead, they’ll adopt methods used by major influencers: sponsorships, affiliate links, and promoting tokens they own,” Qureshi said.
“Influencers will frequently be accused of secretly being chatbots, and scandals exposing AI will become commonplace. It will all look quite strange.”

In Qureshi’s view, AI’s long-term impact will be most significant outside of social media and trading platforms.

“AI won’t give everyone a ‘trading agent’ or mini hedge fund,” he argued.
“Of course, technology scales user capabilities, but that scaling will depend on the user’s capital, data, and infrastructure.”

He expects existing trading companies—those with substantial resources and data—to benefit most. Over time, AI will bring markets to near-perfect efficiency, even in niche areas, leaving retail investors with few competitive advantages.

He sees AI-agent technology focusing primarily on software development as having the largest future impact, radically reducing the cost of creating new applications.

“In the post-AI era, launching an app will no longer require millions of dollars in seed funding. Ten thousand dollars for cloud-based AI computations will be enough,” Qureshi said.

He also predicts that “bootstrapped” projects like Hyperliquid and Jupiter—once rare—will become the norm, sparking an explosion in new applications and experiments on-chain.

“For an industry built on software, such deflationary pressure will catalyze an on-chain renaissance,” the expert added.

While AI will reshape the industry, Qureshi believes cryptocurrency will also influence AI. He suggests that autonomous agents will use digital assets for settlements—a scenario that will become more feasible once the U.S. implements more lenient stablecoin regulations, paving the way for “explosive growth” and strengthening Tether’s position in the market.

Previously, some experts predicted that AI agents would transform cryptocurrencies in 2025 by introducing “genuine innovation” to the sector.