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Chainlink's McCormick: AI Agents and Bots Will Be the New Drivers of On-Chain Trading

Chainlink's McCormick describes AI agent- and bot-driven on-chain trading as having "Star Wars vibes," predicting AI will lower the cost of building blockchains, fueling a multi-chain landscape and rising demand for cross-chain interoperability.

Chainlink's McCormick: AI Agents and Bots Will Be the New Drivers of On-Chain Trading

Bots firing off orders automatically, AI agents settling with one another—scenes shifting like something out of a movie's special effects reel. Chainlink's McCormick summed up his vision of on-chain trading's near future in one phrase: "Star Wars vibes." In this world, AI agents and bots replace human operators as the main force driving blockchain transactions.

According to The Block, McCormick believes this trend will push the entire industry toward a multi-chain landscape. The reasoning is straightforward: AI is driving down the cost of building new blockchain networks, and a lower barrier to entry means more chains will get built.

More chains means more potential for fragmentation if they can't talk to each other. That's why McCormick sees cross-chain interoperability as the next critical need—which happens to be the very space Chainlink has been building in for years.

Publicly available material so far is limited to McCormick's views on AI agents, bots, and the multi-chain future, with no concrete timeline or product details disclosed yet.

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