The next twenty-four months in the crypto world could be a massive transfer of wealth—flowing from those who chase quick gains and follow trends to players who can truly settle down and focus on long-term research. This judgment sounds a bit harsh, but a close look at the entire evolution of Web3 shows that it is indeed well-founded.

Deeper still, the fundamental change is that trading counterparts may no longer be human. This statement sounds shocking at first, but it makes sense—by 2026, the large-scale influx of AI and robots into the cryptocurrency market will no longer be a fantasy. They will gradually become the core participants in trading, completely rewriting the industry's rules of the game and wealth distribution logic.

Looking back at the development of Web3 over the past decade, it’s clear that it has always been humans playing against humans. Miners mining, retail traders speculating, institutional participation, project financing—each bull and bear cycle essentially boils down to differences in cognition and operational rhythm among people. Behind the price fluctuations are human factors like emotions, information asymmetry, and policy expectations. Short-term chasing highs and selling lows, arbitrage opportunities, market panic—all stem from the tug-of-war between human rationality and irrationality.

But what if AI agents really enter the scene on a large scale? Then the "human vs. human game" would directly upgrade to a "multi-dimensional confrontation between humans and AI, and AI versus AI." The market’s operating logic will be completely rewritten.

The reason AI agents can become the core force of the market in 2026 is mainly because they are inherently suited to the operational characteristics of the cryptocurrency market. First, they optimize rationality and efficiency—24/7 nonstop trading, which humans can no longer sustain, but AI can. Second, their data processing capabilities and decision-making speed are on a completely different level. Plus, emotional barriers are entirely eliminated, and AI participation will fundamentally change the market’s pricing mechanism and liquidity structure. This is not just an increase in the number of participants, but a paradigm shift in the entire market ecosystem.