Eric Trump said the growth of AI could become one of the biggest drivers of the digital asset market, arguing that AI agents will increasingly rely on crypto for payments and other financial transactions.

Speaking at the Token2049 conference in Singapore on Wednesday, Trump said investment flowing from crypto into AI over the past year had weighed on cryptocurrency prices. However, he argued that faster growth in AI could ultimately benefit the crypto market.

“The thing that’s going to spawn the growth of digital assets by far the quickest is actually the AI trade,” Trump said. “The faster our kind of friends on the other side…