Nansen launches autonomous AI crypto business at Bethesda, Solana
Update Jan 21, 9:27 am UTC: This article has been updated to include a second quote from Nansen founder and CEO Alex Svanević.
As the platform expands beyond analytics to trading execution, Nansen has launched autonomous cryptocurrency trading tools that allow users to execute trades through artificial intelligence agents and natural language queries.
The new feature will allow users to place trades by entering chat orders in the Nansen mobile app instead of using traditional charts or order books, the company said in an announcement shared Wednesday. The product is aimed at retail users who want simple access to the crypto markets.
Nansen AI can also analyze onchain signals and provide data-driven insights to guide investor decisions before trades are executed through what the platform calls “vibe trading.” The company describes the process as combining analytics with automated execution while maintaining ultimate control with the user.
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The trading feature will initially support activity on the Base and Solana blockchains, with plans to expand to additional networks, Nansen said.
The AI interface draws on Nansen's proprietary onchain database containing hundreds of millions of named blockchain addresses, the firm says, and aims to provide investors with more reliable crypto market analysis than general-purpose AI bots like Google Gemini or OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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“For years, Nansen has focused on introducing high-quality onchain tokens to investors,” said Alex Svanevik, co-founder and CEO of Nansen. “This initiative allows users to act on those insights directly within our product.”
Now, we're closing the loop by enabling users to transact directly on our product through native chat mobile UX and a web-based trading terminal.
For cross-chain trading execution in Solana and Base, Nansen has partnered with decentralized exchange Jupiter, crypto exchange OKX and cross-chain protocol LI.FI, facilitating support for further blockchain networks.
Transactions are handled through the embedded Nansen Wallet, Privy's self-managed wallet experience.
Citing regulatory restrictions, it said standalone trading will be available to users from Wednesday, excluding residents of certain territories including Singapore, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia and parts of Ukraine.
Nansen's AI agents are “consistently better” than AI chatbots when it comes to wallet identification, token discovery, due diligence and portfolio analysis, says Svanevik:
“Nansen AI achieves 85%+ quality results in expert mode. GPT-5? Around 20% don't understand standardLMS wallet labeling or trading.”
While Nansen uses basic AI models as part of its platform, these still need to be fine-tuned and equipped with additional onchain capabilities, Svanevik said.
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The launch comes amid growing interest in AI-assisted trading across the crypto industry as companies experiment with automated mechanisms and chat platforms to reduce barriers to retail participation.
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Separately, recent tests have shown that low-cost Chinese AI models can outperform large Western systems in crypto trading operations. In the year In an independent commercial competition reported by Cointelegraph in November 2025, models including QWEN3 MAX and DeepSeek scored stronger than several high-profile AI chatbots, with QWEN3 being the only model to achieve positive returns.
The results highlight persistent limitations in real-time market performance among the most advanced general-purpose AI systems.
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