Nansen CEO Predicts AI Trading Agents Will Surpass Human Traders Within Two Years

According to The Block, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik predicted on July 28 that artificial intelligence trading agents would surpass human traders within approximately two years. The on-chain data platform is transitioning from a pure analytics tool to direct trading functionality, repositioning around deploying agents to trade any asset on-chain. The feature has accumulated over $500 million in trading volume to date.

Among Nansen's top 15 perpetual contract trades, approximately 10 involve non-crypto assets including SpaceX, the S&P 500 index, gold, and crude oil. The platform plans to roll out higher-autonomy trading agents after completing backtesting and paper trading, aiming to reduce inference costs and mitigate poisoned input risks.