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Avichal Garg

Managing Partner, Electric Capital

Search every verified Avichal Garg interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Avichal Garg, managing partner at Electric Capital, appeared on a podcast published September 26, 2026, to discuss the potential convergence of Bitcoin, AI agents, and digital asset markets. He argued that Bitcoin could eventually surpass gold in market size, citing its accessibility via phones and global liquidity. Garg also stated that autonomous AI agents will likely require crypto wallets because they cannot complete traditional KYC processes, and that these agents may hold digital assets, potentially creating new demand for cryptocurrencies. He suggested that AI agents trading could become a significant use case for crypto rails. In the conversation, Garg also touched on the implications of AI for defense contracting, suggesting that while automation could reduce certain costs, human relationships and trust built through personal interactions would remain critical in that industry. He contrasted American perspectives on the financial system with those in countries experiencing high inflation, noting that many non-US populations are more familiar with stores of value like the dollar. Garg described Bitcoin as "digital gold," emphasizing its fixed supply, ease of transport, subdivision, and global liquid market as reasons for its potential growth.

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“It's very clear that agents will have wallets and they can't because an agent can't KYC. It has to have a crypto wallet, right? A cryptography based wallet and that will have US dollars in it. And then very quickly you start saying, well, what other assets should I own? And I think owning things if you're a non-sign digital entity that doesn't have a physical presence in a particular jurisdiction, having non-jurisdic”

“The intention is not necessarily to get people going. It's just it's one of these things where I think if you look at the basics and the math on this stuff, it's you can kind of reason your way through it. And the way we've always thought about it is this is digital gold. It's a fixed supply asset. It's easy to transport. It's easy to subdivide. It's a global liquid market. People in the United States sometimes or pe”

“What you want is a US dollar denominated system that the US cannot single-handedly decide to boot you from and where the United States cannot just take all your assets. And that's literally what Ethereum is. It's a US dollar denominated system that nobody in the world controls that anybody can mutually agree to transact upon where the United States can't steal your assets.”

“For me the turning point for ETH actually was when the United States decided to seize Russian assets in dollar terms and weaponize the dollar. And there are two forms of weaponization of the dollar. I think one that the market is willing to accept and one that the market is not willing to accept. The one that the market is willing to accept is sanctions which is you did something bad Iran or North Korea and we as a l”

“Most of the world actually does want dollars. And then all of a sudden you're sitting on some dollars and you think to yourself, oh, wouldn't it be great if I could get some yield in dollars so I'm not getting inflated away? ... And so what happens when you give that three4s of the world access to dollar producing assets I think what they do is they say I want dollar producing assets and all of that capital moves ove”

“What we've really done with something like Bitcoin is invented a new form of digital money. One of the unique properties is that you can write code around it — computers can have custody of money for the first time, and that opens up actions and behaviors previously not possible.”

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