OKX Global Chief Business Officer Lennix Lai: In the future, one person equipped with five AI agents can rival an entire institutional investment team

ChainCatcher reported live that Lennix Lai, the Global Chief Business Officer of OKX, delivered a keynote speech at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival. He pointed out that AI Agents are changing the way users interact with wallets and blockchains. OKX is building a wallet operating system from scratch that serves not only human users but also AI Agents: On-chain OS.

This system is built on the existing capabilities of the OKX wallet, which includes 1.2 billion API calls per day, over $300 million in daily trading volume, support for more than 60 chains, and aggregation of 500 DEXs. Users can issue commands in natural language, such as "automatically exchange to USDC when ETH drops below 2000," and the Agent will automatically track prices, compare quotes from different DEXs, route the optimal path, and execute the trade upon human confirmation.

He emphasized that Agents also need to trade and pay each other, thus requiring an efficient and low-cost microtransaction settlement layer. OKX's Layer 2 network, X Layer, plays this role with zero gas fees and instant finality, and it supports the X402 payment protocol and on-chain Agent identity registration. He stated that future financial infrastructure will no longer serve only top professionals; an individual working with five different Agents can achieve results comparable to those of large institutional investment teams, which is the most significant meaning of AI in the cryptocurrency industry.