Exchanges Must Adapt to AI Agents or Risk Being Left Behind

The financial industry is undergoing a significant transformation with the growth of stablecoins and smart contracts. As AI agents become more prevalent in markets, exchanges must adapt to accommodate their needs.

Exchanges are struggling to keep up with the changing landscape, with most lacking infrastructure for agent-driven execution. This gap in infrastructure puts them at risk of being left behind by traditional finance, which is already building its own agent infrastructure.

The industry's focus on ideology, such as centralized versus decentralized and crypto versus TradFi, has hindered progress towards building infrastructure that makes all systems work together. The next chapter will be about creating unified settlement, intelligent execution infrastructure, and agents as real participants in financial markets.