Franklin Templeton Says Altcoins Power AI Growth

Traditional stock investors looking for artificial intelligence growth should consider adding altcoins to their portfolios. Sandy Kaul, head of digital assets at Franklin Templeton, recently pointed out that autonomous software agents will need fast and cheap payment systems. Standard credit card networks charge high fees that make tiny machine payments nearly impossible. Blockchains solve this problem by settling sub cent transactions in seconds while automatically recording them.

Major companies are already noticing this shift. Coinbase created a payment protocol now supported by tech giants and major financial networks like Visa and Mastercard. Because AI agents must pay gas fees in native tokens to record activity on a specific network, increased agent activity could drive massive demand for underlying altcoins. Kaul highlights Solana as a prime example of a chain built to handle this kind of high frequency enterprise software demand.

This trend is still in its early stages, but the future market size is huge. Research from McKinsey estimates that autonomous agent commerce could handle trillions of dollars in revenue by the end of the decade. Traders should keep an eye on how enterprise adoption unfolds and which blockchain networks manage to secure partnerships with major AI developers.