Nansen CEO: AI trading agents are expected to surpass human traders within two years

According to The Block, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik stated that the number of AI trading agents is expected to surpass human traders in about two years. Nansen is shifting its product from a pure analytics tool to "direct trading" and is restructuring the platform around "trading all assets on-chain with agents." Currently, this feature has achieved a cumulative trading volume of over $500 million.

Svanevik mentioned that about 10 of the top 15 perpetual contracts by trading volume on Nansen are non-crypto assets, including SpaceX, the S&P 500 index, gold, and crude oil. Nansen plans to open up higher autonomy trading agents after completing backtesting and paper trading to reduce inference costs and control the risk of input poisoning.