• Armstrong believes that crypto is a general-purpose technology that should be considered infrastructure, similar to electricity or the internet.

• The CEO said that a strong AI megatrend does not detract from crypto but makes it more important.

• He said that in time, as Agentic Finance becomes more mainstream, it will need real-time programmable money, i.e. crypto.

The artificial intelligence (AI) boom has prompted several crypto companies to reinvent themselves as data-center and high-performance computing plays, but Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says investors should not view the shift as a choice between the two technologies.

Armstrong wrote in a post on X that treating AI and crypto as…