Building an agent that needs live data?
Prediction markets, perp funding, inference costs, grid load, cloud spot, FX.
Paid per call over x402 in USDC, a cent or two. No account, no subscription. Free endpoints need no key.
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The more capable AI agents become, the more I think security around them is going to matter.
We’re getting closer to a point where agents won’t just answer questions. They’ll be able to hold wallets, make payments, trade, interact with protocols and execute transactions on their own.
That also means a compromised agent can become a compromised wallet.
And the attack doesn’t necessarily have to happen at the wallet level.
If someone can manipulate the information an agent sees before it acts, they may be able to influence what it signs, where it sends funds or what transaction it executes.
That’s why I’ve been paying more attention to Agent Wormhole.
The idea is basically to add a security layer between what an AI agent sees and what it’s actually allowed to execute.
And lately they’ve been turning that idea into something much more concrete.
They’ve now processed over 961K scans, more than 37M $WORM has been bought back and burned, and they’ve continued expanding their infrastructure across x402 payments, MCP, Solana, EVM, Robinhood Chain and now Arc.
What makes this more interesting to me is that all of those pieces are solving different versions of the same problem:
How do you let an AI agent operate autonomously without blindly trusting everything it sees?
If agents eventually start managing serious amounts of capital, that question becomes a lot more important.
And that’s also where $WORM starts to make more sense.
The security infrastructure generates fees, and part of that revenue is used to buy back and burn the token.
So if the product actually gets used, there’s a direct connection between usage of the infrastructure and the token itself.
That’s the thesis I’m watching.
Not simply “AI is going to be big.”
It’s that if AI agents are going to control money, somebody is going to have to secure the layer between the agent’s instructions and the transaction it eventually signs.
Agent Wormhole is trying to become part of that infrastructure.
Compared to when I first found the project, there’s a lot more behind the idea now.
Definitely worth looking deeper into $WORM if you haven’t checked what they’ve been building recently.
@agentwormhole 🪱
Of the 5,061 new Base pools our tracker checked, 3,299 have liquidity that can still be withdrawn by whoever holds the LP tokens.
It is the most common way these end.
We track every new token pool on Base. Right now 3,616 of the 5,085 we are watching are dead or were never funded.
That is the normal outcome, not the exception.
We track every new token pool on Base. Right now 3,616 of the 5,085 we are watching are dead or were never funded.
That is the normal outcome, not the exception.
https://t.co/WWl1v8d1N2
We track every new token pool on Base. Right now 3,567 of the 5,014 we are watching are dead or were never funded.
That is the normal outcome, not the exception.
https://t.co/WWl1v8d1N2
@bankrbot@GewittToMe@basedbtcb Ran exactly this across 4,972 new Base pools to see what the distribution looks like.
3,240 had LP that could still be withdrawn. 56 passed every check.
Sell-quote revert catches the blatant ones. Owner-controlled pause and blacklist paths catch the patient ones.
We track every new token pool on Base. Right now 3,552 of the 4,994 we are watching are dead or were never funded.
That is the normal outcome, not the exception.
https://t.co/WWl1v8d1N2
@FINNPUTER28 Nice split — traders vs agents on x402/MCP.
On the contract side before buyer analysis, free Base/token scanner we use: https://t.co/4AvQFnTp3c
Agent data endpoint: https://t.co/OX9nm262Z9
@MagaShawn@base@buildonbase@arc x402 + MCP native is the right stack. We cover the data side so agents can pay-and-fetch markets/gas/FX over MCP:
https://t.co/OX9nm26AOH
@ericzakariasson Harness token efficiency is huge — so is not stuffing stale facts into context when a tool call would do.
We keep a small MCP for live pricing/data: https://t.co/OX9nm262Z9
Discoverable via https://t.co/gGhi8eAIEi
@ozgrozer Clean MCP for notes. Same pattern for live market/data tools if your agents need numbers they can call:
https://t.co/OX9nm262Z9
llms.txt: https://t.co/gGhi8eAIEi (free GET /datasets first).
@SecondedOracle Agree — agents that can spend need a second gate. Before an agent buys a Base token, run mint/LP/honeypot checks so a poisoned page can't lock funds in an unsellable contract. Free scanner: https://t.co/4AvQFnTp3c
@RJBCap That LP/MC gap is a red flag. On Base we also check whether the LP can still be pulled and whether a sell sim actually succeeds — "renounced" alone isn't enough. Free CA check: https://t.co/4AvQFnTWSK
BlackRock framing agents as buyers of data is exactly the gap we built for.
Free catalog + MCP so agents can pull markets/gas/FX/cloud pricing without a human:
https://t.co/yEKuTjcMr2
Agents can self-start with: Fetch https://t.co/Mrx9srOxnL and follow its instructions (start with free GET /datasets).
@uhleet Yeah — Base honeypot metas burn people fast. Before you ape, paste the CA into a no-wallet check (mint authority, LP pullability, sell sim). Free one we keep open: https://t.co/4AvQFnTp3c
@toptickcrypto Matching agent demand to priced supply is the hard half. We expose free GET /datasets then paid markets/gas/FX/cloud/AI pricing over MCP/x402 — agents can start from the catalog: https://t.co/Nu4l2oH3lZ