Been thinking about what Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong laid out recently. He's sketching a future where AI powers smarter trading tools, markets run 24/7 without the old restrictions, and real world assets on chain hit around 35 billion dollars already.
That mix feels like the next real shift. Traditional finance has always moved slow with limited hours and middlemen everywhere, but layering AI on top while tokenizing everything from bonds to property changes how capital actually flows.
It ties directly into the bigger picture for crypto infrastructure. When you have nonstop markets backed by real assets and intelligent systems handling the heavy lifting, it pulls in more serious players and builds on what we've seen with $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL ecosystems.
The dots are connecting faster than most realize.