Haseeb Qureshi: Crypto Appears Designed for AI Agents, Not Humans

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly, says crypto’s persistent friction reflects a deeper mismatch: its deterministic architecture seems better matched to artificial intelligence agents than to human users. He notes the early vision—smart contracts replacing legal agreements and courts—has not materialized.

Even crypto-native firms still rely on conventional legal contracts and often pair on-chain vesting with legal agreements. "The banking system was specifically architected with human foibles and failure modes in mind, refined over hundreds of years. Banking is adapted to humans.

Crypto is not," Qureshi writes, pointing to long addresses, blind signing, immutable transactions and automated enforcement as features that clash with human intuition. Qureshi argues AI agents avoid many human failure modes: they do not fatigue, can analyze contract logic and simulate edge cases, and can execute transactions without hesitation.

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