AI and blockchain will spark the “subsequent revolution in enterprise,” in accordance with multimillionaire Kevin O’Leary, with AI having the ability to autonomously make retail purchases and utilizing blockchain to deal with funds.
In a three-minute video posted to X Saturday, the Shark Tank co-host and enterprise capitalist mentioned blockchain will assist an incoming wave of AI-driven transactions, dealing with all the pieces from orders at Walmart and Goal to burger retailers and cafes:
“You merely speak to your telephone and say, I need a tall, low-fat latte, please. I will be there in 90 seconds. That’s it.”
“So what occurs there may be the AI analyzes the place you might be, seems to be on the geography of what retailer [is nearby] and determines that that’s the one, after which makes use of a blockchain to truly do a digital cost system for the tall low-fat latte,” defined O’Leary.
“It already is aware of who you might be. So the retailer has your title on it while you stroll in,” he added.
AI is about to collide with blockchain and alter all the pieces. Think about ordering your espresso by voice, AI finds the café, and blockchain processes your cost immediately.
That’s the subsequent revolution in enterprise. Quicker, smarter, totally on-chain. The query is: who builds it… pic.twitter.com/IWyTgY2tga
— Kevin O’Leary aka Mr. Great (@kevinolearytv) October 19, 2025
Mr. Great is ready to discover a successful answer
Nevertheless, O’Leary mentioned he hasn’t but discovered an answer that may deal with tens of millions of retail transactions concurrently at a low price.
He mentioned present options like Ethereum can’t do it as a result of they order transactions linearly, resulting in delays and costly charges throughout peak visitors.
“It is a lengthy freeway on a method to a toll street for authentication of the transaction, and when there’s too many occurring the freeway on the similar time, they get caught on the toll, they get jammed up.”
“So we don’t have the know-how but, with a minimum of these… ones to do what I simply described,” O’Leary added.
Nevertheless, there are already options to the issue that O’Leary described, referred to as Directed Acyclic Graphs, which course of transactions in a spider web-like construction relatively than ordering them into single blocks.
Hedera and Nano are among the many crypto options that use this structure, although they’ve solely captured a fraction of the consumer base seen on high chains like Ethereum and Solana.
O’Leary mentioned he’s on the lookout for the primary undertaking to realize this at scale, including: “It is a implausible profession as a result of the Walmarts, the Targets, the burger guys want tens of millions of transactions a day, all impartial, all going by means of the tolls on the similar time.”
Funnily, it was simply final yr that O’Leary criticized folks for spending $5.50 on coffees and $15 on sandwiches after they may make them at dwelling for a fraction of the value.
Agentic AI is already serving to folks with day by day duties
Agentic AI is already aiding folks with on a regular basis duties, from looking out and ordering to reminding folks of day by day duties.
Talking to Cointelegraph, Kyle Okamoto, chief know-how officer of decentralized infrastructure platform Aethir, mentioned his spouse constructed an agentic AI answer to remind her when to fill up on groceries.
“She simply merely talks to her agent usually and says, hey, I am out of milk, and it retains observe of that after which it finally says, hey, you run out of milk each week to eight days. You have not advised me but, however we must always in all probability simply add milk to your buying checklist.”
Her agentic AI can categorize objects throughout Goal, Complete Meals, Amazon and even observe which merchandise are on sale, Okamoto mentioned: “Generally the youngsters’ yogurt goes to be a greenback cheaper at Goal due to a sale in comparison with Complete Meals.
She doesn’t wish to maintain checking all these websites for the whole checklist, so she has the agent do it and provides her worth alerts.”
Now all that’s wanted is a blockchain answer that handles the cost aspect of issues, in accordance with O’Leary.