AI can’t get you Starbucks, but it could with blockchain: Kevin O’Leary

AI and blockchain will spark the “subsequent revolution in enterprise,” in keeping with multimillionaire Kevin O’Leary, with AI having the ability to autonomously make retail purchases and utilizing blockchain to handle funds.

In a three-minute video posted to X Saturday, the Shark Tank co-host and enterprise capitalist stated blockchain will assist an incoming wave of AI-driven transactions, dealing with every thing from orders at Walmart and Goal to burger retailers and cafes:

“You merely discuss 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’s the AI analyzes the place you’re, appears on the geography of what retailer [is nearby] and determines that that’s the one, after which makes use of a blockchain to really do a digital cost system for the tall low-fat latte,” defined O’Leary.

“It already is aware of who you’re. So the retailer has your identify on it while you stroll in,” he added.

AI is about to collide with blockchain and alter every thing. 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. Fantastic (@kevinolearytv) October 19, 2025

Mr. Fantastic is ready to discover a successful resolution

Nonetheless, O’Leary stated he hasn’t but discovered an answer that may deal with tens of millions of retail transactions concurrently at a low value.

He stated present options like Ethereum can’t do it as a result of they order transactions linearly, resulting in delays and costly charges throughout peak site visitors.

“It is a lengthy freeway on a technique 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 at the least these… ones to do what I simply described,” O’Leary added.

Nonetheless, there are already options to the issue that O’Leary described, generally known as Directed Acyclic Graphs, which course of transactions in a spider web-like construction slightly 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 prime chains like Ethereum and Solana.

O’Leary stated he’s on the lookout for the primary mission to realize this at scale, including: “This can be a incredible profession as a result of the Walmarts, the Targets, the burger guys want tens of millions of transactions a day, all unbiased, all going via the tolls on the similar time.”

Funnily, it was simply final 12 months that O’Leary criticized individuals for spending $5.50 on coffees and $15 on sandwiches after they might make them at house for a fraction of the worth.

Agentic AI is already serving to individuals with every day duties

Agentic AI is already helping individuals with on a regular basis duties, from looking and ordering to reminding individuals of every day duties.

Chatting with Cointelegraph, Kyle Okamoto, chief know-how officer of decentralized infrastructure platform Aethir, stated his spouse constructed an agentic AI resolution to remind her when to fill up on groceries.

“She simply merely talks to her agent frequently 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 should always in all probability simply add milk to your buying checklist.”

Her agentic AI can categorize gadgets throughout Goal, Complete Meals, Amazon and even observe which merchandise are on sale, Okamoto stated: “Typically the children’ yogurt goes to be a greenback cheaper at Goal due to a sale in comparison with Complete Meals.

She doesn’t need to maintain checking all these websites for the complete checklist, so she has the agent do it and provides her value alerts.”

Now all that’s wanted is a blockchain resolution that handles the cost aspect of issues, in keeping with O’Leary.