Crypto has 'limited utility' in solving AI's trust and payment issues, IC3 researchers say

IC3 Paper Finds Most AI Agent Platforms Show No Evidence of Autonomous On-Chain Trading - "The Defiant"

IC3 analysis of 1,900 AI-agent crypto projects found most lack autonomous trade execution evidence despite $3 billion token valuations. Token holders lost $191.7 million with negative median returns—exposing inflated autonomy claims in deployed agent frameworks.