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Chainlink’s McCormick says AI agents and robots will boost on-chain activity
Chainlink Labs’ institutional strategy head expects AI to make “many chains” cheaper to build, increasing demand for interoperability.
Chainlink Labs Head of Institutional Strategy Andrew McCormick told The Block at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026 that AI agents and robots could become a growing source of blockchain transactions, increasingly using stablecoins, digital assets, and blockchains to transact and communicate.
McCormick also said advances in AI could lower the cost of creating new blockchain networks, supporting a future with many different chains rather than a single dominant network, and raising the importance of interoperability between them.
He pointed to interoperability as a key requirement in a multi-chain environment, citing Wyoming’s Frontier Token as an example of a project distributing across multiple blockchains using Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, or CCIP.
McCormick added that he sees AI’s influence extending beyond software, with physical machines such as humanoid robots potentially operating in docks and factories and communicating and transacting via stablecoins and tokenized markets, including trading outside traditional market hours.