Australia’s Treasury has identified artificial intelligence as one of five major transitions expected to reshape the economy through 2065-66, while digital assets are absent from the headline themes of its seventh Intergenerational Report. The other transitions are geopolitical fragmentation, the energy transition, population aging and Australia’s continuing shift toward a services economy. Treasury projects that the economy will more than double by 2065-66 and that real income per person will rise 55%, although slower population and workforce growth will make productivity increasingly important. The report gives AI a dedicated focus for the first time since the 2023 edition, describing agentic systems as more capable, autonomous and widely used, with performance exceeding human-level benchmarks in some areas. Coinbase Australia country director John O’Loghlen said the outlook overlooks financial infrastructure that autonomous agents could use for payments and transactions. Treasury’s separate Financial Innovation Strategy, released Sept. 3, links agentic AI with demand for real-time, interoperable and programmable payment and settlement systems, while cautioning that fully autonomous financial agents remain experimental. Australia has legislated licensing rules for digital asset platforms and tokenized custody platforms scheduled to begin April 9, 2027. Separately, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre have advanced tokenized-finance trials, with Project Acacia examining 20 wholesale-market use cases and DFCRC estimating that digital-finance innovation could generate as much as A$24 billion ($17.1 billion), or roughly 1% of GDP, in annual economic benefits.