While at the event, Pal said he would choose Solana if he had to pick between Solana and Bitcoin. This choice is mostly due to his belief of where the higher-growth opportunity sits as the crypto industry moves deeper into the AI era.
Particularly, Pal linked the future of crypto to artificial intelligence and described crypto as the ‘Universal Basic Equity’ of the AI age.
Pal’s preference was attributed to Solana’s high throughput and low transaction costs, which could make it better suited for machine-to-machine microtransactions, AI-based activity, and fast DeFi interactions. Bitcoin, by comparison, functions mostly as a monetary asset, but it was not designed as a high-frequency execution layer for millions of small automated transactions.
Pal also predicted that within five years, AI agents will constitute 60% of DeFi users, surpassing human users. This means that the DeFi niche could have three AI agents for every two human users.
This idea gives more context to why Solana would appeal to Pal in a direct comparison with Bitcoin. AI agents would likely need networks that can process frequent, low-cost transactions, and this is a niche where Solana has been outperforming Ethereum in recent years.
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