Reid Hoffman, Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder, stated that autonomous agents will need crypto-based trust systems to transact across the open internet, suggesting this development may enable a comeback for NFTs.
Hoffman’s statement connects the emergence of autonomous agents to the infrastructure requirements necessary for decentralized transactions, positioning crypto-based identity and trust mechanisms as foundational to agent-to-agent commerce on open networks.
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