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The structural shift toward tokenized financial markets is drawing fresh scrutiny to how blockchain transaction volumes are measured and what they will look like once AI agents become active participants.
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan said investors may be underestimating blockchain transaction activity by 10 to 100 times as tokenized markets expand.
He framed the estimate as a possibility, not a commitment to a timeline. The argument is a throughput question. Human trading and settlement behavior generates transaction counts at human frequency.
AI agents operating across tokenized markets can execute and settle at machine frequency, compounding on-chain activity in ways the current transaction base does not reflect.
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