Unchained How Nansen’s New Trading Agent Makes It Easier to Follow the Smart Money Onchain
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Jan 21, 2026 
Alex Svanevik, Co-founder and CEO of Nansen, dives into the exciting launch of an AI trading agent designed to streamline the trading process. He discusses the potential for this technology to empower individual investors with hedge-fund-like tools and the evolution toward more autonomous trading agents. Alex also explores the benefits of voice-driven execution, the challenges of security, and how on-chain trading could greatly shift by 2026. Tune in for insights on the future of trading with AI!
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Degen Traders As Core Users
- Nansen's core users are individual on-chain investors, often called 'dgens', not primarily institutions.
- The company grew by labeling hundreds of millions of addresses to surface smart-money signals for these active traders.
From AI To On-Chain Analytics
- Alex has an AI background and discovered Ethereum in 2017, which led him to focus on on-chain analytics.
- He co-founded Nansen after an earlier ICO startup (CoinFi) failed and he saw the need for reliable on-chain data.
AI Democratizes Trading Infrastructure
- AI lowers the cost to build hedge-fund-grade infrastructure, benefiting individual investors more than big funds.
- This democratization will likely increase trading activity and diversify which assets attract volume.
