Opinion of: Let LI, co -founder or magic laboratories
Cryptographic markets are executed 24/7. Human merchants no. As IA agents begin to manage liquidity, optimize performance and execute operations at all hours, they are quickly becoming an essential infrastructure for the future of decentralized finance (Defi). While AI agents are evolving niche tools for quant merchants to conventional financial operators, they are quickly overcoming meean wallets to secure them.
Advances in the abstraction of the account and intelligent contract wallets have emerged, but most of the defi platforms still depend predominantly on external property account wallets that require manual approvals in each step. There are programmable solutions in an initial stage, but remain fragmented, expensive in layer 1 networks and adopted only by a small fraction of users.
As the agents of AI operate more and more in defi, this infrastructure limitation becomes critical. We need a standardized infrastructure that allows safe and profitable automation with verifiable guards in multiple block chain ecosystems.
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The emergence of autonomous agents opens new possibilities: Hand -free Defi Strategies, real -time portfolio optimization and cross -chain arbitration. However, without the program permits and the visibility of the chain, delegate control to AI can expose the catastrophic risk. Malicious bots, amazing agents and poorly designed automation can drain wallets before a human realizes.
We have already seen what happens when the agent’s infrastructure fails. In September 2024, the users of the TV -based commercial boat banana gun lost 563 Ether (ETH) (approximately $ 1.9 million) through an exploited Oracle vulnerability that allowed the attackers to intercept messages and win unauthorized. More recently, the attackers violated the AIXBT board and issued commands to transfer funds directly, which resulted in the loss or 55.5 eth worth more than $ 100,000. These are not isolated incidents: they are systemic vulnerability warning signs in our automation infrastructure.
Inherited wallets cannot withstand autonomous agents
Despite the years of innovation in the wallet, architecture remains static mainly: sign a transaction, transmit it, repeat. Most wallets are not constructed to understand the “intention”, verify that automation coincides with user -defined rules or restricted time for time, type of asset or strategy.
This rigidity creates a dynamic of all or nothing: or you maintain manual control and the opportunities of rapid movement are lost or completely delivery to the opaque third party systems. To define the scale safely as it builds more utility, we need a programmable, compound and verifiable infrastructure.
Programmable permits are the new layer of trust
As smart contracts encode the logic for DEFI protocols, the wallet infrastructure must encode the logic in user control. That means allowing permissions based on session, cryptographic verification of agents shares and the ability to revoke access in real time.
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With these characteristics in their place, users can delegate trade, rebalancing or the execution of the strategy to renounce complete control. This approach not only mitigates risk, but also expands access. Advanced AFFI strategies could be accessible to users without technical knowledge and safely managed by agents operating within verifiable limitations.
Programs infrastructure makes defi scalable
The programmable wallet infrastructure not only makes defi safer, but it makes it scalable. Fragmentation through chains and protocols has a long leg for a barrier to automated strategies. A universal protocol of the keys that synchronizes the permits of the networks can expedite the delegation of the cross chain and open the by the ecosystems of interoperable agents.
As the institutional interest in Defi grows, safe automation cannot be sensitive. Most of the companies won allow AI agents to interact with capital without verifiable guardians. Just as zero knowledge tests are becoming essential for privacy and compliance, programmable wallet permits can become standard for agents based on safety.
Defi’s future
Some may argue that AI cannot be trusted with financial autonomy, but traditional markets have already adopted algorithmic trade and the automation of the black box. Defi is not immune, it is simply not prepared.
If Crypto must maintain its transparency and the principles of User Sovereigtyty, you must build an infrastructure that keeps the agents of AI under control. That begins with the reconstruction of wallets such as interfaces and operating systems for the autonomous and multicin economy.
Defi is on the edge of an automation revolution. The question is not the participation of the agents. If we give them the rails, they need to act at the service of the users, not despite them.
Opinion of: Let LI, co -founder or magic laboratories.
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