Author: Haotian, Source: Author's Twitter @tmel0211
The way to send money to AI Agents and issue assets is really interesting! Originally, I wanted the AI Agent to achieve self-management of assets, self-realization of intentional transactions, and seamless cross-chain transactions based on a verifiable blockchain architecture, but this vision is still very far away. However, the emergence of aipool for pre-sale, anti-rug pull, and anti-MEV, isn't it also an upgrade to the current DeFi experience? Without talking about the distant future, let's talk about the immediate benefits:
1) The overall engineering implementation of aipool is not complicated. Users send SOL (non-CA address) to the wallet address of the AI Agent, and the address generates a private key in the TEE environment and pre-sets access permission management Pool. When certain conditions are met, the AI will automatically create a liquidity pool on the on-chain DEX and distribute tokens to eligible participants, and the collected transaction fees will be aggregated into the AI wallet;
2) The whole process is no different from the previously popular KOL money-sending Fi, except that this round of money-sending Fi is driven by the AI Agent. The AI Agent has full control of the private key address (cannot rug pull), the AI Agent independently creates the transaction pool (sets the whitelist, batches the fund unlocking, sets the initial price, uses the oracle for pricing, etc.) to reduce the impact of MEV exploitation.
How does the AI Agent generate the private key on its own? The AI-Pool uses the @PhalaNetwork TEE technology solution:
1. Generate the private key in the Secure Enclave secure exclave, and the private key will not leave the TEE environment, and all signing operations are completed only within the TEE;
2. The TEE can define a set of verifiable interactive communication rules, and the external can realize remote authentication, transaction verification and real-time status monitoring, which is equivalent to using the decentralized consensus (smart contract, transparent traceability) of the chain to manage and schedule the assets in the TEE. The Phala Contract can run in the TEE environment for offline calculation and interact with the external chain to achieve multi-chain interoperability;
Although Phala Network's performance in the previous wave of AI narratives was not particularly eye-catching, to be honest, in the integration of AI Agents with TEE to achieve secure asset custody capabilities, and in the integration of decentralized chain consensus governance and smart contract scheduling with the AI runtime environment, Phala's AI Agent solution has been adopted by the huge new business IP of ai16z, just imagine how it opens up.
3) The inclusion of AI Agents into "trading features" has always been a market expectation, but now it is already rare for AI Agents to be able to automatically execute some pre-programmed logic without errors, let alone reach the stage of self-discovering trading opportunities, self-decision making, and self-stop loss and take profit. This requires a lot of support at the distributed chain consensus layer:
For example, can there be a decentralized Oracle that provides real-time and accurate pricing? Can there be a DA data availability solution that is suitable for AI Agents? Can there be a decentralized governance verification solution? Can there be a Solver Marketplace that can handle large-scale multi-scenario intentional transactions, etc.
Since the workflow of the AI Agent inevitably involves calling off-chain APIs like GPT4, this chain that adapts to the AI Agent must also solve the integration of off-chain and on-chain. This makes sense, as the old chain infra also needs to find new growth opportunities by integrating off-chain, and the new narrative of AI Agents will accelerate the integration of the on-chain and off-chain worlds.
But I want to say that AI Agents + Chain is still a distant goal in this wave of AI narratives, as the current level of autonomy of AI Agents is still far from sufficient.
However, focusing on the present, it is already a great achievement for the AI Agent to snatch the "asset custody right" from a bunch of scammers and rug pullers. So, will a PumpFun run by AI Agents come out? Will an open-source enhanced Virtual open platform come? Will a new DeFi market specifically serving AI Agents also refresh? ... I can't help but imagine.
In any case, I'll just light the fuse, and let the market's upcoming "explosion" prove how many new and interesting things will come out of AI Agents + DeFi, AI Agents money-sending Fi, and AI Agents integrating with the chain.
