Hoskinson: AI agents will dominate the internet by 2035 — and Big Tech is already terrified!

Charles Hoskinson told the Consensus Miami 2026 conference that by 2035 the majority of internet searches, commerce and activity will be driven by AI agents rather than humans — a shift he says has Google, Amazon and Facebook in a state of panic. The core threat is structural: AI agents don't click ads, don't carry brand loyalty, and have no emotional attachment to the platforms built to monetise human behaviour.

Hoskinson pointed to Google's interest in the x402 protocol — a Coinbase-backed standard enabling AI agents to make programmatic payments via stablecoins and crypto rails — as evidence that incumbents are already repositioning. For crypto, he framed the agentic shift as net positive: AI handling due diligence, transaction execution and DeFi interactions simplifies the user experience that has long been the sector's biggest adoption barrier.

His forecast aligns with Coinbase…