#542 - VO - Yoni Assia - eToro - “AI Will Replace Most Traders in 18 Months”

#542 - VO - Yoni Assia - eToro - “AI Will Replace Most Traders in 18 Months”

From Génération Do It Yourself by Matthieu Stefani | Orso Media

May 17, 2026 · 2h 17m · Episode 542

About this episode

Yoni Assia discusses the future of trading with AI and his journey with eToro.

Retrouvez l'épisode en version française ici : https://www.gdiy.fr/podcast/yoni-assia-vf/ On January 28th 2026, he launched his first AI agent. By April, Yoni Assia had 30 active agents running 24/7 on WhatsApp, 45 GitHub projects, and a dev team that couldn't review prototypes faster than non-developers were shipping them. In addition, Yoni runs eToro, a 1,500-person company he co-founded in 2007 with his brother and a friend. The mission hasn't changed since day one: democratize access to financial markets. It runs in the family. His grandfather opened a Swiss bank and his father built Magic Software, one of the first low-code development platforms. Obsessed with financial markets since he was 13, Yoni started trading early. He lost 90% of his portfolio in the dot-com crash, and came back obsessed with building the infrastructure that would make finance work differently. His first company put video cameras on roller coasters. It was sold to Kodak. Then came eToro. In 2012, he wrote one of the first papers on tokenizing real-world assets using Bitcoin. He posted it on BitcoinTalk and a teenager named Vitalik Buterin answered. Yoni paid him to co-write the paper, brought him to…

People in this episode

Host: Matthieu Stefani

Guest: Yoni Assia

Topics covered

  • AI in trading
  • financial markets
  • entrepreneurship
  • technology
  • eToro
  • innovation

Keywords

  • AI
  • trading
  • eToro
  • financial markets
  • entrepreneurship
  • blockchain
  • Ethereum

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Organizations: eToro

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