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Crypto wallets are being rebuilt for AI agents, Trust Wallet and Mesh executives say at Consensus Miami
Key takeaways
- Appearing at CoinDesk Miami, Arjun Mukherjee, chief technology officer at Mesh, said the shift is driven by what he called the cold-start problem for AI agents.
- “An agent can’t do anything until it has a wallet funded,” he said. “It’s very difficult for the agent to act until it has a wallet to do something, and it has value to transact with.
- Felix Fan, CEO of Trust Wallet, said the company is taking a deliberately bifurcated approach to agent integration.
Appearing at CoinDesk Miami, Arjun Mukherjee, chief technology officer at Mesh, said the shift is driven by what he called the cold-start problem for AI agents.
“An agent can’t do anything until it has a wallet funded,” he said. “It’s very difficult for the agent to act until it has a wallet to do something, and it has value to transact with. And suddenly, enter crypto. Crypto has found its kind of niche, its killer app.”
Mesh, which builds a connectivity layer across exchanges, wallets, smart contracts and decentralized exchanges, has launched a product called Smart Funding that routes payments across chains, networks, accounts and tokens for both human and agent users.
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