AI and Blockchain will unleash “the next revolution in business,” according to multimillionaire Kevin O’Leary, with AI autonomously making retail purchases and using blockchain to take care of payments.
In a three minute video posted On X Saturday, the Shark Tank co-host and venture capitalist said Blockchain will support an incoming wave of AI-driven transactions, handling everything from orders at Walmart and targeting burger shops and cafes:
“You just talk on your phone and say, I’d like a tall, low-fat latte, please. I’ll be there in 90 seconds. That’s it.”
“So what happens is the AI analyzes where you are, looks at the geography of what’s retailing (nearby) and determines that’s the one, and then uses a blockchain to actually create a digital payment system for tall low-fat lattes,” O’Leary explained.
“It already knows who you are. That’s why it has your name on it when you walk,” he added.
AI is about to collide with blockchain and change everything. Imagine ordering your coffee by voice, AI finds the café, and the blockchain processes your payment instantly.
That’s the next revolution in business. Faster, smarter, completely on-chain. The question is: Who builds it… pic.twitter.com/iwytgy2tga
– Kevin O’Leary aka Mr. Wonderful (@kevinolearytv) October 19, 2025
Mr. Wonderful is waiting to find a winning solution
However, O’Leary said he has yet to find a solution that sticks Millions of retail transactions simultaneously at a low cost.
He said that current solutions like Ethereum cannot do this because they order transactions sequentially, leading to delays and expensive fees During peak traffic.
“It’s a long highway one way on a toll road for verifying the transaction, and when there’s so much happening on the highway at the same time, they get stuck at the toll, they get jammed.”
“So we don’t have the technology yet, with at least those … to do what I described,” O’Leary added.
However, there are already solutions to the problem described by O’Leary, known as Directed acyclic graphwhich process transactions in a spider-like structure rather than ordering them into single blocks.
Hedera and Nano are among the crypto solutions that use this architecture, although they only capture a fraction of the user base seen in top chains like Ethereum and Solana.
O’Leary said he was looking for the first project to achieve this at scale, adding: “It’s an amazing race because the Walmarts, the Targets, the burger guys need millions of transactions a day, all independent, all going through the tolls at the same time.”
Funny, it was only last year that O’Leary criticized People for spending $5.50 on coffees and $15 on sandwiches when they can make them at home for a fraction of the price.
Agentic AI is already helping people with everyday tasks
Agentic AI is already helping people with daily tasks, from searching and ordering to reminding people of daily tasks.
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Speaking to Cointelegraph, Kyle Okamoto, the chief technology officer of decentralized infrastructure platform Aethir, said his wife built an AI agent solution to remind him when to stock up on groceries.
“He just regularly talks to his agent and says, ‘Hey, I’m out of milk,’ and it tracks that and then eventually says, ‘Hey, you run out of milk every week to eight days. You haven’t told me, but maybe you should just add milk to your shopping list.’
His AI agent can classify items across Target, Whole Foods and Amazon, and even tracks which products are selling, Okamoto said. “Sometimes kids’ yogurt will be a dollar cheaper at Target because of a sale versus Whole Foods.
“He doesn’t want to keep checking all these sites for the full list, so he does the agent and gives his price alerts.”
Now all that’s needed is a blockchain solution that handles the payment side of things, according to O’Leary.
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