BlockBeats News, May 7th, Real Vision co-founder and CEO Raoul Pal said at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami:

The human race is at an unprecedented turning point in history. We are about to witness AGI entities that are smarter, more flexible, and more powerful than humans, with AI capabilities currently doubling annually. By 2028, AI's annual production of text will surpass all human output in history, and all of this will happen within 5 years.

When AI massively replaces human labor, the solution is not the traditional Universal Basic Income (UBI), but rather "Universal Basic Equity." For the first time in human history, ordinary people can directly own the underlying network by holding cryptocurrency infrastructure tokens, benefiting simultaneously from the expansion of the Agent economy. Institutional entry into the space has not deviated from the crypto spirit; instead, it has allowed anyone globally to buy BTC, ETH, SOL on equal footing with BlackRock and others.

In a rapid-fire Q&A session, Pal said that if he had to choose one, he would pick Solana over Bitcoin. He also predicted that within 5 years, Agents will outnumber humans by a 3:2 ratio as the primary user group in DeFi.