1 in 7 Willing to Trust AI With Entire Crypto Portfolio

Do People Think AI Agents Can Trade & Invest Better?

Around 1 in 2 people think that AI agents will be better than humans at crypto trading and investing most of the time. That said, the remaining half of survey participants believed AI does not have an edge over humans in the crypto market yet, which suggests that opinions are still divided over this comparison.

For short-term crypto trading, 26.7% of survey participants expected AI agents to often outperform humans, and 22.0% expected AI to always win. Meanwhile, for long-term crypto investing, 23.6% said AI agents will often do better than humans, and 23.0% thought that would always be the case.

In total, 48.7% think AI will be more profitable than humans in crypto trading, making it a slightly more popular opinion compared to the combined 46.6% who favored AI for crypto investing. 

However, the most popular individual belief was that AI agents will sometimes outperform humans in the crypto market: 29.3% expected AI agents to only sometimes trade crypto better than humans, and 28.3% said the same for investing. 

Despite the rising popularity of crypto AI, at least 1 in 5 survey participants held the contrarian view that AI will mostly lose out against humans in crypto trading and investing. When it came to crypto trading, 13.0% believed AI agents will only rarely outperform humans and 9.0% believed that would never happen. Whereas in the case of crypto investing, 15.3% expected AI agents to rarely do better than humans and 9.8% expected AI to never win against humans.

How Much Do People Trust AI Agents for Trading & Investing?

The same survey found that participants had very mixed views on whether AI agents can be trusted to access and manage people’s crypto wallets. Specifically, 37.5% indicated that they do not trust AI agents with their crypto wallets, while a slightly lower 34.5% said they can be trusted and 27.9% were neutral on the matter.

At the same time, a majority 87.1% of the same survey participants were willing to let AI agents manage at least a tenth of their crypto portfolio. This suggests that despite having doubts as to how safe or secure AI agents are, crypto users are still mainly curious about the technology and want to try using them for trading or investing.

In particular, 35.9% expressed willingness to let AI agents manage a majority of their crypto portfolio (namely 60% or more of the portfolio). This was led by a significant minority of 14.5% who were willing to leave their entire crypto portfolio to an AI agent to manage. In other words, 1 in 7 participants either think they can completely trust AI agents with all of their crypto, or believe the potential profits will outweigh the risks, or simply have a high risk tolerance for their crypto holdings.

Another 51.3% were only willing to let an AI agent manage half or less of their crypto portfolio. Interestingly, the second most popular amount overall was letting an AI agent manage exactly half of the portfolio, which 13.6% of participants chose.

On the other hand, 12.9% said they would leave none of their crypto portfolio to an AI agent to manage. This means that 1 out of every 8 participants completely did not trust AI agents with their crypto, or felt that they can manage their crypto portfolio better than an AI agent might.

Opinions on AI Agents for Trading & Investing

Based on a survey of crypto participants, this is how frequently AI agents are expected to outperform humans in short-term crypto trading and long-term crypto investing:

In the same survey, participants were asked how much they agree or disagree that AI agents can be trusted to access and manage people’s crypto wallets, with opinions distributed as follows:

Methodology

The study examined 2,632 crypto participants’ responses in the anonymous CoinGecko Crypto x AI Survey, which ran from February 20 to March 10, 2025. Survey results should be taken as indicative only.

Among the survey participants, 51% considered themselves as crypto investors with mainly long-term holdings, 26% identified as traders with mainly shorter-term holdings, 10% as builders and 13% as sidelined spectators. In terms of how long participants had been in crypto, 53% were in their first cycle (0 to 3 years in crypto), 34% in their second cycle (4 to 7 years) and the remaining participants were veterans with 8 or more years of experience. Geographically, 93% of participants stated that they were based in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa, while the rest were in Oceania or South America. 

This study is for illustrative and informational purposes only, and is not financial advice. Always do your own research and be careful when putting your money into any crypto or financial asset.

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