Written by: pignard.eth, ZAN Team
On March 6th, Manus, the world's first universal AI Agent product released by the Chinese startup Monica, went viral on domestic tech media and social networks. On its first day of launch, invitation codes became extremely scarce, with codes selling for as high as 50,000 on idle fish platforms. However, many industry KOLs had already obtained invitation codes, leading to a flood of experience and interpretation articles.
As a universal AI Agent product, Manus has the ability to autonomously complete tasks from planning to execution, such as writing reports and creating spreadsheets. It not only generates ideas but can also think independently and take action. With its powerful independent thinking, planning, and complex task execution capabilities, it directly delivers complete results, showcasing unprecedented universality and execution capabilities.
Manus's popularity has not only attracted industry attention but also provided valuable product insights and design inspiration for various AI Agent developments. As AI technology rapidly develops, AI Agent, as an important branch of artificial intelligence, is gradually moving from concept to reality and demonstrating enormous application potential across various industries, including the Web3 industry.
[The rest of the translation follows the same professional and accurate approach, maintaining the original structure and technical terminology.]MCP Server has the capability to interact with blockchain, such as conducting DeFi transactions and management, lowering technical barriers.
The first direction has extremely high requirements for the underlying blockchain's storage system, data management capabilities, and asynchronous computing capabilities, and can choose a blockchain like 0G. 0G is a modular AI blockchain with a scalable and programmable DA layer suitable for AI dapps. Its modular technology will achieve frictionless interoperability between chains while ensuring security, eliminating fragmentation, and maximizing connectivity to create a decentralized AI ecosystem.
The second direction is similar to a variant of DeFAI, but currently, DeFAI's backend is a series of Tools within Function Calls. UnifAI creates a unified DeFAI MCP Server, avoiding reinventing the wheel. UnifAI is a platform that allows autonomous AI agents to perform on-chain and off-chain tasks in the Web3 ecosystem. It has UniQ for task automation, an agent service marketplace, and infrastructure for tool discovery.
Besides these two directions, LXDAO and ETHPanda founder @brucexu_eth proposed a scheme to build an OpenMCP.Network creator incentive network based on ETH. MCP Server needs to host and provide stable services, with users paying LLM providers, who will distribute actual incentives through the network to the called MCP Servers, thus maintaining the network's sustainability and stability, and inspiring MCP creators to continuously create and provide high-quality content. This network will require smart contracts to achieve automated, transparent, trustworthy, and censorship-resistant incentives. Signing, permission verification, and privacy protection during operation can be implemented using ETH wallets, ZK, and other technologies.
Although theoretically, the combination of MCP and Web3 could inject a decentralized trust mechanism and economic incentive layer for AI Agent applications, the current zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) technology still struggles to verify the authenticity of Agent behavior, and the decentralized network still has efficiency issues, making it not a short-term successful solution.
Summary
Manus's release marks an important milestone for general AI Agent products, and the Web3 world also needs a milestone product to break the outside world's doubts about Web3's lack of utility and mere hype.
The emergence of MCP brings new exploration directions for Web3's AI Agents, including deploying MCP Server to blockchain networks, MCP Server's capability to interact with blockchain, or building a MCP Server creator incentive network.
AI is the most grand narrative in history, and for Web3, integration with AI is inevitable. We still need to maintain patience and confidence and continue exploring.
