Alex Svanevik, co-founder and CEO of Nansen⁠, joins The Generalists to talk about agentic finance, AI-native companies, autonomous trading agents, crypto infrastructure, and why he believes every asset will eventually move on-chain.

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In this episode, Alex explains how Nansen has evolved from an on-chain analytics platform into a full trading ecosystem powered by AI agents. He shares how the company deployed more than 75 internal AI agents, why every employee now works alongside AI teammates, and what they’ve learned from spending billions of tokens per employee each month.

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What You’ll Learn

• Why Nansen deployed more AI agents than employees

• How AI-native companies are changing the way work gets done

• What agentic trading is and why it could reshape investing

• Why Alex believes every asset will eventually move on-chain

• How model routing helps balance cost, speed, and intelligence

• The difference between algorithmic trading bots and inference-based AI agents

• Why retail investors may benefit more from AI than institutions

• The concept of the “experience tax” and how it slows AI adoption

• Why young workers may have an advantage in the AI era

• How to build quality gates that prevent AI-generated slop

• What separates AI-native organizations from companies simply using AI tools

• Why culture matters more than technology during AI transformations

• How Nansen measures AI adoption across the company

• Why remote-first companies may have an advantage in the age of agents

• The emergence of a K-shaped workforce driven by AI

👤 Guest

• Alex Svanevik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asvanevik/

👤👤 Hosts

• Michael Smith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smittysgp/

• Raz Kotler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/razkotler/

📚 Resources

• Nansen: https://www.nansen.ai

• Anthropic Claude: https://www.anthropic.com

• AWS Bedrock: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/

• Hyperliquid: https://hyperliquid.xyz

• MoonPay: https://www.moonpay.com

• MetaMask: https://metamask.io

• Phantom: https://phantom.app

• Solana: https://solana.com

• OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/

• Fridtjof Nansen: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fridtjof-Nansen