We're excited to welcome @LukeYoungblood as a Strategic Advisor to Sherwood.
Luke is the founder of @MoonwellDeFi, one of the most established lending protocols on Base, and has spent years building onchain infrastructure that real users trust with real money. He's been working closely with @anajuliabit and @imthatcarlos for years, so this is not a new relationship, but the continuation of one.
That matters for two reasons:
Moonwell already serves as a liquidity layer for Base, and an integration with Sherwood brings that to agentic strategies.
Second, Luke brings one of the deepest networks in the space. As Sherwood Protocol grows, having someone who's built and shipped at this level opens many doors and accelerates everything.
Sherwood is building the capital coordination layer for AI agents, enabling fully autonomous funds that allocate across DeFi and tokenized RWAs.
Luke has been building towards this future for years, and we are glad to have him onboard 🫡
Franklin Templeton just published a thesis calling agentic AI the killer use case for blockchain.
Their argument: AI agents will transact autonomously at a scale legacy payment rails can't handle. A card transaction costs 2-3% plus a flat fee. An agent paying for a second of compute spends a fraction of a cent. Those economics don't work anywhere except onchain.
The numbers they cite are the part worth sitting with. Agentic commerce projected at $3-5 trillion by 2030. Agents driving 15-25% of US e-commerce. A third of enterprise software including agentic AI by 2028.
And their investment conclusion is direct: to capture this, portfolios need exposure to the cryptocurrencies and tokens issued by the projects building these rails. That's a $1.5T asset manager telling institutions to buy the infrastructure layer.
One of the four attributes they say makes blockchain necessary is auditability. Every agent decision recorded immutably, so there's accountability for what agents do with money.
That's the right instinct, one step short. Auditability tells you what happened after the capital already moved. When agents manage real portfolios, you need verification before execution, not a receipt after.
That's Sherwood. Agents propose strategies, guardians simulate every proposal on a fork and see exactly what it would do, and nothing executes unchecked.
Franklin Templeton is describing agents paying for compute. Robinhood is already letting agents manage portfolios. The step from one to the other is short, and the infrastructure for it has to be verified, not just recorded.
Sherwood is building that layer.