• Crypto wallets for AI agents are creating a new legal frontier, says Electric Capital As AI agents grow more autonomous, developers are already giving them crypto wallets, allowing software to hold assets, pay for services, trade tokens and even hire other agents. • The technical pieces are falling into place. • The legal ones are not. • What to know: Crypto isn’t just building faster payments rails. • It may be building the financial system for non-humans. • As AI agents grow more autonomous, developers are already giving them crypto wallets, allowing software to hold assets, pay for services, trade tokens and even hire other agents.

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  • Electric Capital’s Avichal Garg highlighted at NEARCON 2026 that AI agents are increasingly being equipped with crypto wallets, enabling them to hold assets, pay for services, trade tokens and even hire other agents. While blockchain technology provides programmable money and instant settlement, the legal framework for autonomous software that can own and transact remains undeveloped. Garg compared the shift to the creation of the limited‑liability corporation, noting that liability for non‑human actors is unclear-lawmakers may soon need to decide who is responsible when software acts independently. The development signals a new legal frontier for the emerging financial system of non‑humans.

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