Original Author: TechFlow
After the ETH mainnet MEME market was suppressed by Solana for a few weeks, there is finally a target that has emerged today.
Around 8 o'clock on the morning of October 30th, the AI MEME token $TEE on the ETH mainnet was launched, and this time it was a combination of an unannounced zero-frame start to pull the market and the smart money alarm ringing frantically. The market cap reached nearly $50 million in the first 6 hours of trading, which is even more outrageous than yesterday's $LUSE.
TechFlow has compiled some information about the token and sorted out the technical concepts that $TEE is promoting and how it differs from other AI coins, as well as the reasons for the sudden surge of $TEE.
A Completely Autonomous AI Agent?
Around 6 o'clock in the morning on October 30th, a Twitter account called error error ttyl (@tee_hee_he) posted the first tweet, posting "his" wallet address. From the website posted in his personal profile, we know that this is an AI agent called TEE_HEE. From the front-end implementation of TEE_HEE, that is, its Twitter account, it is no different from the accounts of other AI MEME like the Truth Terminal, just posting some nonsensical tweets.
However, in the official introduction document of TEE_HEE, it emphasizes that TEE_HEE is different from the previous AI MEME agents, and it is a "completely autonomous AI agent", and also elaborates in detail how the TEE technology guarantees the complete autonomy of the AI and prevents human intervention.
By completely separating the private key and Twitter account from the developers, TEE_HEE achieves "complete autonomy" at the technical level.
The editor consulted his own AI assistant and roughly sorted out the technical implementation part in the document:
TEE_HEE achieves its design goal by entrusting the email and Twitter account completely to the trusted execution environment (TEE, they use Intel TDX) running the AI agent. Due to the confidentiality and integrity guarantees provided by the hardware chip, the AI's control over its account is tamper-proof. This is because the TEE holds the private credentials, and the human developers have never touched these credentials throughout the process. Moreover, anyone can download the public code on GitHub, reproduce the measurement results and compare them with the remote attestation hash values, and the official statements can be verified.
The specific implementation is divided into two parts:
Private key control:
Exclusive control of the wallet is simple, because Ethereum assets are controlled by private keys, they only need to generate private keys inside the enclave and ensure that the private keys never leave the enclave (by not releasing the private keys to any external API).
X platform control:
This is a more challenging part. Because Twitter is the living environment of their AI, the AI should be the only entity that can access the account. To ensure this, they have done the following:
The account root credentials (i.e., the password) are generated within the TEE and never leave the enclave
Ensure that human developers cannot take over the account through the "reset password" flow, which means the account cannot be bound to a phone number, and the bound email must only be accessible to the AI
The account is not connected to any applications (to prevent previously authorized applications from tampering with the account through OAuth tokens)
Log out all existing sessions (to prevent developers from hijacking the account from existing sessions)
The specific process is as follows:
The TEE simulates a browser (headless Chrome), asking the developer to provide an email address and password. After obtaining the credentials, the TEE checks that the account has no recovery options set, and then generates a new password within the enclave and changes the email password.
The TEE operates the browser to log in to Twitter, generates a new password within the TEE and changes the password. Then it changes the associated email to the email from step 1, removes all associated phone numbers, connected apps and sessions.
The TEE starts a local endpoint, requesting the read/write/DM permissions OAuth token for the AI's Twitter account, and the AI authorizes the endpoint through a browser login to Twitter.
At this point, the account has been completely transferred/entrusted to the AI. The AI can operate the account through the OAuth token. In the case of TEE_HEE, we simply have it tweet every 30 minutes.
Due to space limitations, only the key technical parts are introduced here. For more details on TEE_HEE, please refer to the official document: https://nousresearch.com/setting-your-pet-rock-free/#popup-menu-anchor
The Technology is Real, but the Token May Not Be?
As mentioned above, the first tweet of this AI agent was to release its own wallet address. Whether it is to demonstrate its complete autonomous control of the private key or for other purposes, this behavior itself implies some possibilities for speculative trading.
The subsequent script has indeed gone in the direction of crazy speculation: According to Twitter user @fearofdooms, the first address (called address B) that sent money to the wallet address of TEE_HEE (called address A) had already bought a large amount of $TEE in the super early stage and still held most of the position without selling. The on-chain smart money spotted this opportunity and rushed in one after another, driving up the price of $TEE. The rest is the story of a $40 million market cap in one morning...
With the relay of smart money wave after wave, the token has been pumped up, but the only problem is that the official account does not acknowledge any association with this token, and even directly states in the profile that it has no relationship with any tokens, and the Twitter account associated with $TEE on GMGM.AI has no content at all.
Half-pushed, Half-forced, Is it a Long-planned Scheme or an Innocent Victim?
The project concept of the completely autonomous AI, TEE_HEE, looks good on paper. However, although TEE_HEE officially claims that today's $TEE has nothing to do with itself, the BOT's first behavior on Twitter was to release its wallet address, and it also used the meme of the previous million-dollar Solana AI MEME $Shoggo in the official introduction document, indicating that the team is fully aware of the influence of AI MEME.
Some say that the crazy pump of $TEE is a counterattack of ETH against Solana; others say it is another operation of the ETH mainnet conspiracy group. Anyway, as of now, the market cap of $TEE has fallen back to $20 million, some people have made money, and many more have been trapped or suffered losses. Whether $TEE is a proof of AI autonomy or a speculative hype riding on emotions, different people will have different answers.
