Nikhil Chandhok
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Circle, formerly worked on AR glasses at Meta
Nikhil Chandhok (Chief Product and Technology Officer at Circle, formerly worked on AR glasses at Meta) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include AI agents, Tokenization of securities, USD Coin.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
AI agents
Chandhok believes human experience will become more valuable relative to machine experience as agents proliferate.
“I think human experience will get valued significantly higher than machine experience”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 18:35
Chandhok argues that agents operating at cost-plus will eliminate inefficiencies throughout the economy.
“Essentially, the economy, all inefficiencies get taken out by these cost plus agents”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 11:17
- Prediction · due Dec 2027
Chandhok predicts there will be more AIs than humans on the internet next year.
“I think there will be more AIs than humans next year. There's no reason for that not to be true”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 7:03
Tokenization of securities
Chandhok calls tokenization of assets an inevitability that will accelerate.
“tokenization is just an inevitability like I think it's just gonna pick up”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 53:22
USD Coin
Chandhok argues USDC is strategically valuable for the US because it exports the dollar and draws foreign capital.
“one of the things that is amazing about USDC is that it essentially exports the dollar into the world”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 51:19
Technological unemployment
Chandhok argues public acceptance of AI depends on telling stories of it making housing, education and healthcare better and cheaper.
“AI has to make housing cheaper, it has to make education better, and it has to make healthcare more accessible”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 47:33
Stablecoins
Chandhok hopes banks will collaborate with Circle through the transition rather than declaring them obsolete.
“My hope is the banks are going to work with us and make this transition”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 39:13
Arc (blockchain)
Chandhok claims settlement on Arc costs a tiny fraction of the cost on Ethereum based on Circle's median transaction data.
“Something costs like 0.005 cents on ARK to settle and costs 89 cents on Ethereum to settle”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 34:42
GENIUS Act
- Prediction · due Jan 2027
Chandhok says the GENIUS Act's stablecoin framework takes effect in January, allowing businesses to count stablecoins as cash equivalents.
“And what is going to be a great tailwind in the new year is that the Genius Act goes into effect come January”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 13:33
Predictions
2 pending
- Prediction · due Jan 2027
Chandhok says the GENIUS Act's stablecoin framework takes effect in January, allowing businesses to count stablecoins as cash equivalents.
“And what is going to be a great tailwind in the new year is that the Genius Act goes into effect come January”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 13:33 · GENIUS Act
- Prediction · due Dec 2027
Chandhok predicts there will be more AIs than humans on the internet next year.
“I think there will be more AIs than humans next year. There's no reason for that not to be true”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots Live (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 7:03 · AI agents
Appearances
Cathie Wood on Tesla-SpaceX Merger, $1M Bitcoin, More AIs Than Humans | EP #296 | Moonshots LiveMoonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 29, 2026 · 1 h 1 min
At Moonshots Live 2026, Peter Diamandis and Emad Mostaque discuss the Tesla-SpaceX merger, AI agents, stablecoins, robotics and $1M Bitcoin with Cathie Wood and Nikhil Chandhok.
Often appears with
- Peter Diamandis · 1 shared episode
- Cathie Wood · 1 shared episode
- Emad Mostaque · 1 shared episode