Alex Svanevik, Co-founder and CEO of on-chain analytics platform Nansen, stated that AI trading agents are likely to outnumber human traders in roughly two years. Nansen is transforming from a pure data analytics platform to a provider of on-chain trade execution services.

Since the launch of its direct trading function, cumulative trading volume has surpassed $500 million. Among the top 15 perpetual contracts by trading volume on the platform, around 10 are backed by non-crypto underlying assets including SpaceX, S&P 500, gold and crude oil.

The relevant AI agents are still in the backtesting and paper trading phase. In one test round, the strategy only generated a profit of $23 while incurring approximately $700 in inference computing costs.