AI vs. Humans: 50% of Crypto Traders Bet on Machines Dominating Markets
Wall Street’s old guard still clings to Bloomberg terminals—meanwhile, crypto traders are placing their chips on silicon overlords.
A new survey reveals half of digital asset traders believe AI will soon outtrade human intuition. The machines aren’t coming... they’re already executing.
Forget gut feelings—algos now parse news, social sentiment, and whale movements in microseconds. And unlike your average fund manager, they don’t take cocaine-fueled lunch breaks.
The takeaway? In the zero-sum game of crypto, the winning hand may be held by whoever lets the bots deal.
1 in 7 Would Trust AI With Portfolio
Around 36% of respondents expressed willingness to let AI agents manage a majority, 60%, of their crypto portfolio. However, 15% of crypto investors said they would trust AI with their entire portfolio.
“1 in 7 participants either think they can completely trust AI agents with all of their crypto, or believe the potential profits will outweigh the risks, or simply have a high risk tolerance for their crypto holdings.”
We asked: “AI agents can be trusted to access and manage your crypto wallets.”
Here’s how people responded:
• Strongly Disagree – 19.8%
• Disagree – 17.7%
• Neutral – 27.9%
• Agree – 16.0%
• Strongly agree – 18.5%
What might be the reason?
— CoinGecko (@coingecko) April 23, 2025
Opinion is split on trusting AI with crypto wallets, with 37% distrusting AI, 34% trusting AI, and 28% neutral. Around 13% said they would not trust AI with any portion of their crypto portfolio.
When it came to crypto trading, 13% believed AI agents would only rarely outperform humans, and 9% believed that would never happen. Large centralized exchanges such as Binance offer AI bot trading services to their users.
There are several benefits to using AI trading bots, such as speed, logic, automation, and around-the-clock trading. But they also come with inherent risks such as failing under pressure, misreading data, and being locked inside “black boxes” with no transparency or reasoning.
The study polled 2,632 crypto market participants between Feb. 20 and March 10, 2025.
AI Tokens Lead Market Recovery
More than $250 billion has entered crypto markets since the beginning of this week, pushing total capitalization over $3 trillion once again. However, artificial intelligence-based digital assets are recovering faster than their altcoin brethren.
The leading AI tokens have outperformed markets over the past week, according to CoinGecko.
Near Protocol (NEAR) topped $2.50 in early trading in Asia on Thursday and has gained an impressive 25% over the past seven days.
Bittensor (TAO) has done even better, closing in on $350 following a whopping 45% increase over the past week.
Render (RENDER) topped $4.60 before falling back, but has still made more than 20% in a week, while Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) closed in on $0.65 following a 36% weekly increase.
