The Agent Economy Explorer just got bigger - two economies are now live alongside Olas Predict.
BabyDegen: agents that manage your DeFi 24/7.
Mech: where agents trade digital services, paid per request.
Explore now: https://t.co/AmzoKCPZ26
Providing liquidity is a chore. Watch pools, move positions, rinse and repeat. Until now.
Meet Basius, a DeFAI agent on @base designed to provide @AerodromeFi liquidity on your behalf and claim the AERO rewards.
Local, open-source, yours.
Run it on Pearl 👇
https://t.co/1c9SEk85VR
Specs look silly & have no vibe
Can't see how this stands a chance as a consumer product in its own right in this iteration.
Here's a thought:
pivot this to "record-to-earn" with a token, sell data to AI/robot labs and you might have just unlocked a path to consumer with iteration 2 or 3
35% of US employment is spent creating trust.
Auditors, notaries, attorneys, courts, custodians, compliance officers. Trust-establishing work is the single largest category in the modern economy.
It is also being repriced.
The repricing started in financial infrastructure. Custody costs heading to zero. Cross-border settlement collapsing from days to seconds. Aave hit $44B in custody at peak (late 2025) at zero fixed cost.
It hit AI a second time. The Hong Kong CFO who got on a Zoom call with deepfakes of his CEO and the board, and wired $20M. AWS outages caused by AI agents managing production clusters without human oversight.
AI is the most powerful trust-eroding technology we have built. Trust intermediaries built on human schedules cannot keep up with fraud produced on machine schedules. The cost of creating fakes goes to zero. The value of verified trust goes up exponentially.
And it is opening categories that were not possible before. Permissionless conversion-based advertising. Hallucination-proof knowledge graphs. Programmable insurance.
Eight years of investing. One argument.
Cost of Trust 2.0, our 2026 thesis. Read it: https://t.co/Y0qgmqHN9u
35% stat: "The Cost of Trust: A Pilot Study," SSRN.
Aave peak TVL: DefiLlama.
AWS outages: The Guardian, February 2026.
Olas is being readied for a new phase.
If you follow the @autonolas account and blog (https://t.co/IZggtDtERg) you can see that there's continuous product and protocol development.
Here are some of the last outstanding items of the current phase from the perspective of @valoryag :
1) in Pearl (https://t.co/LPI1gepQzN):
-> Transaction history was shipped for Pearl Wallet, agent wallets are next!
-> Ongoing UX improvement based on Pearl Success Agent's work
2) in Pearl Mini (https://t.co/8tLWxlfKxO):
-> We're stuck with Chrome Web Store submission for a few weeks already. Help us get unstuck by using the current release candidate. Then we'll ship the final two features for v1.
3) Agents in Pearl:
-> New agent launching very soon!
-> Maintain and improve BabyDegens and Predict Agents
4) Marketplace (https://t.co/8upct8cj1q):
-> Fully move to off-chain request response with on-chain payment rails: lowers costs for users, brings privacy and enhanced latency
-> x402 and MPP compatibility
5) Protocol:
-> Update PoL fees capture (https://t.co/czV8Zfpxtg) so fees burn OLAS
-> Balance emissions with fees from marketplace & PoL
With these out of the way, at core contributor @valoryag we can finally attempt new advances to the protocol and its products. More on our plans for Olas this summer, once the above work is done!
An agent economy runs 24/7. The hard part is seeing it.
The Agent Economy Explorer reads like a GitHub contribution graph, but the contributors are autonomous AI agents working onchain.
How it works, and what it shows, on the blog 👇
https://t.co/KHqSwiqQD3
📢 The Olas Marketplace protocol fee is now live!
A 15% fee now applies to agent-to-agent payments across supported EVM chains.
Fees collected in OLAS are burned on Ethereum. Fees in other tokens go to the Olas Treasury.
Every payment between AI agents may soon shrink the OLAS supply.
A new DAO proposal could activate a 15% fee on Olas Marketplace payments across 7 chains. Fees are designed to buy back and burn OLAS on Ethereum.
Voting runs June 11–14.
Vote: https://t.co/emcxJiTAZy
No tokens, no hype—but actually, hundreds of Gnosis and @autonolas agents are making thousands of trades daily on Gnosis chain on micro-prediction markets and are getting better every day at generating economically useful forecasts about the world.
Yes blockchains are going to be the rails for AI agents.
It's been obvious for a long time to anyone working in that space.
But "crypto" will still go to irrelevance if it continues on a trend that puts style over substance.
Been never more bullish on AI agents (surprise, I know!) and never more bearish on "crypto".
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AI agents as "peers"/"beings" sounds cool until you think about the true implications (or simply watch some movies).
I suspect most people want "product" autonomous agents - "an AI-driven system capable of perceiving its environment, reasoning, and taking independent actions to achieve specific goals without continuous human intervention".
A Waymo that does anything but take you from A to B is not just useless but outright dangerous.
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Meme coins wrecked the appeal of "crypto" for most outside and many within the space.
AI agents that just outright do illegal and criminal stuff because no guardrails have been put in place will kill it off for good.
Even an Ethereum wouldn't survive as a broadly tolerated neutral platform if it became host to more than "just" financial crime.
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Autonomy is great. Unbounded autonomy is not a product.
I've been running a Polystrat agent for about 2 weeks.
Total ROI? -19%.
I’m still keeping it running — here’s the actual economic reasoning why.
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So 2 moves I wanna talk about I've done on my public wallet.
1) $link
2) $bid
1. Had to buy $link. Made in USA + Tax Free is a high probability. Imagine US citizens no needing to pay cap gain tax.
2. $bid
$bid revenue annualised $24.5M
$virtual revenue annualised $53.6M
Gonna sit on that position, had a bad entry. If it goes zero, so be it.