Latest How AI Crypto Trading Will Make And Break Human Roles

AI is spreading across crypto trading, heightening fears of displacement even as human traders remain responsible for key decisions.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming embedded across crypto trading, accelerating analysis, execution and optimization processes previously handled by people.

Investors and trading companies are being pushed to confront how much decision-making can be automated without diluting control, accountability or human judgment.

Even as some projects are reaching for more autonomous trading systems, most AI tools in crypto remain tightly constrained. Humans still define strategies, set risk limits and take responsibility for outcomes, as machines take on much of the bandwidth used for data-heavy tasks, such as research and monitoring.

Across crypto markets, the balance between automation and oversight is quietly reshaping trading workflows and beginning to redefine what human roles still matter.

“[AI is] replacing the 80% that nobody actually wants to do. The best researchers use AI to dramatically improve their work,” Ryan Li, co-founder and CEO of crypto research platform Surf AI, told Cointelegraph.

That change is already influencing how crypto trading firms operate, how junior roles are defined and where human judgment still sits in an increasingly automated market.

Interest in using AI to boost efficiency in crypto accelerated in the last quarter of 2024 as AI agents emerged. Projects such as Virtuals Protocol drew attention for experiments involving AI-managed wallets and onchain activity.

Although AI agents remain overseen by humans, their growing potential has raised questions about whether traders will remain essential in future markets.

“From a technical point of view, autonomous trading is already possible. The question is not execution; it’s control, limits and accountability,” Igor Stadnyk, co-founder of AI trading platform True Trading, told Cointelegraph.

Source: CoinTelegraph