Coingecko survey: Crypto users open to AI’s role in portfolio management

Source Cryptopolitan

An anonymous CoinGecko Crypto x AI Survey from February 20 to March 10, 2025, revealed that around 1 in 2 people believe that AI agents will be better than humans at crypto trading and investing most of the time.

The research also found that the remaining half of the 2,632 examined crypto participants believed AI does not have an edge over humans in the crypto market yet, suggesting that opinions are still divided.

According to the analytics company, 51% of the survey participants considered themselves crypto investors with long-term holdings, while 26% identified as traders with short-term holdings. The firm also said 53% of the participants were in their first cycle, 34% in their second cycle, and the remaining were veterans with eight or more years of experience in crypto.

Crypto users believe AI will handle crypto portfolios better than humans

The report acknowledged that 26.7% of survey participants expected AI agents to outperform humans in short-term crypto trading often, while 22% expected AI to always win. 23.6% of the participants also believe AI agents will often do better than humans in long-term crypto trading, while 23% thought that would always be the case.

The research showed that 48.7% of the participants think AI will be more profitable than humans in crypto trading. The data makes it a slightly more popular opinion than the 46.6% who favored AI for crypto investing. 

CoinGecko also noted that the most popular individual belief was that AI agents will sometimes outperform humans in the crypto market. The study showed that 29.3% of participants expected AI agents to only sometimes trade crypto better than humans, while 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.”

-CoinGecko.

The crypto firm found that 13% of participants believed AI agents would rarely outperform humans in crypto trading, while 9% believed that would never happen. The research also showed that 15.3% of participants expected AI agents to do better than humans in crypto investing rarely, and 9.8% expected AI to never win against humans.

People show mixed views on trusting AI agents for trading and investing

The CoinGecko research found that 37.5% of participants do not trust AI agents with their crypto wallets. A slightly lower 34.5% said AI agents could be trusted for crypto trading and investing, while 27.9% were neutral.

Data showing crypto participants’ trust in AI agents with crypto wallets. Source: CoinGecko.

According to the report, 87.1% of the same survey participants were willing to let AI agents manage at least a tenth of their crypto portfolio. CoinGecko argued that despite doubts about how safe or secure AI agents are, crypto users were still curious about the technology and wanted to try incorporating them for trading and investing.

The research revealed that 35.9% of participants expressed willingness to let AI agents manage a majority of 60% or more of their crypto portfolio. A minority of 14.5% were willing to leave their entire crypto portfolio to an AI agent to manage. 

The analytics firm also acknowledged that 1 in 7 participants either think they can completely trust AI agents with all their crypto, believe the potential profits will outweigh the risks, or have a high risk tolerance for their crypto holdings.

According to the research, 51.3% of the participants were only willing to let an AI agent manage half or less of their crypto portfolio. 13.6% of participants said they would let an AI agent manage half of their crypto portfolio.

The report also noted that 12.9% of participants said they would leave none of their crypto portfolios to an AI agent to manage. The crypto analytics firm argued that 1 out of every 8 participants completely did not trust AI agents with their crypto or felt that they could manage their crypto portfolio better than an AI agent might.

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