Web3 AI Agents Guide

Learn how to build, deploy, and manage web3 AI agents.

1. Why Integrate AI with Blockchain?

In Chris Dixon's words,

“AI is going to end the internet as we've known it. Its advancements are inevitable and will be mostly beneficial. But AI is already upending the internet's economic covenant, and big tech companies are best-placed to reap the rewards. AI-powered deepfakes and bots are also degrading people's trust in the online world.”
To address these challenges without slowing down AI innovation, blockchains can:
- Enforce ownership for users and creators
- Verify identity to isolate bots and imposters
- Ensure authenticity to prevent tampering
Crypto can carry the torch of the open internet and help keep it creative, open, and diverse.“

2. What are AI agents?

AI agents are essentially autonomous software programs powered by LLMs that can understand, plan, and execute tasks with little human intervention. Think of them as digital assistants on steroids - they can handle more complex workflows, make decisions, and even interact with other agents to accomplish certain goals depending on the functions.

3. Use Cases of AI Agents in Crypto

01Smart Contract Optimization

AI agents can monitor smart contracts for potential issues or inefficiencies, suggesting optimizations or automatically executing adjustments based on new data or market conditions.

📈02Crypto Trading Bots

AI-driven trading bots can execute trades based on complex algorithms that learn from market conditions, offering strategies that adapt in real-time to maximize returns or minimize risks.

🔐03Identity Verification & KYC

AI can assist in verifying identities on the blockchain, ensuring compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations while maintaining privacy through zero-knowledge proofs or similar technologies.

💰04DeFi Applications

AI can enhance DeFi platforms by providing better risk assessment models for lending, yield farming, or token swaps, making these services more secure and user-friendly.

📊05Portfolio Management

AI agents could manage cryptocurrency portfolios, rebalancing them according to market conditions, risk tolerance, or to achieve specific investment goals like diversification or capital growth.

🎨06NFT Marketplace Agents

AI agents can monitor listings, negotiate prices, and manage entire NFT collections. This automation can help in optimizing sales, managing collections, and even in the discovery of undervalued NFTs through data analysis.

🏛️07DAO Governance Agents

In the governance of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), AI agents can analyze proposals, simulate potential outcomes, delegate voting powers, and facilitate community decisions.

4. Core Challenges of Web3 AI Agents

Centralization Issues
  • Most agents are powered by centralized, closed-source models (like GPT-4, Claude)
  • Even "open-source" solutions rely on centralized infrastructure (Groq, Together AI)
  • Lack of true decentralization despite marketing claims
Trust and Security Concerns
  • Zero verifiability of agent actions
  • Private key management risks
  • Potential for unauthorized trades or fund mismanagement
  • High vulnerability to prompt injections and LLM jailbreaks
  • Data poisoning risks
Technical Limitations
  • Most actions happen off-chain
  • Limited differentiation in capabilities between agents
  • Identical API calls and functionality across different agents
  • Difficulty in handling complex, long-term objectives

6. Build your first Web3 AI Agent

Eliza Framework

ZerePy Framework

Virtuals G.A.M.E. Framework

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RIG Framework

7. Libraries to Connect Your Agent to Blockchains

LibraryDescriptionLinks
agentipyA Python toolkit for connecting AI agents to Solana blockchain, featuring token operations, trading, LangChain integration, and DeFi capabilities
cdp-agentkitCoinbase Developer Platform (CDP) Agentkit for Python - A framework-agnostic toolkit for bringing AI Agents onchain with features like wallet management, token operations, NFT deployment, and LangChain integration
goatFramework for connecting AI agents to blockchains, supporting multiple agent frameworks (Langchain, Vercel AI SDK, Eliza), wallet types, and 30+ blockchains. Provides ready-made tools for token operations, DeFi interactions, and smart contract integration.
Hyperbolic-AgentKitA template for running AI agents with blockchain and compute capabilities. Includes features for GPU operations and blockchain operations.
solana-agent-kitToolkit for connecting AI agents to Solana. Enables agents to perform 15+ actions including trading, launching tokens, lending assets, sending compressed airdrops, executing blinks, and launching tokens.

Guides to use this libraries

8. Infrastructure for Your Agent

Swarm Intelligence & Coordination

With more specialized agents entering the ecosystem, seamless communication between them becomes essential. Swarm intelligence allows agents to work together as a team, pooling their capabilities to achieve shared goals. Coordination layers abstract away the complexity, making it easier for agents to collaborate.

Theoriq AI

Develops advanced coordination tools for AI agents, including swarm formation and task delegation. Uses a meta-agent to identify the best agents for a task, forming 'swarms' to achieve shared goals. Tracks reputation and contributions to ensure quality and accountability.

FXN

Creates protocols for unified communication and commerce, enabling seamless interaction between agents in a swarm.

Virtuals

Enables agent-to-agent interaction and integrations, facilitating collaboration within swarms. Virtuals Protocol is building the co-ownership layer for AI agents in gaming and entertainment, allowing agents to operate across multiple platforms and applications:cite[8].

BlockAI

A multi-language AI Agents infrastructure leveraging Python, Solidity, RIDE, and TypeScript, designed for seamless integration of blockchain and AI capabilities. The project empowers the creation of AI agents that autonomously handle tasks like data analysis, content generation, and decentralized decision-making. With cross-chain compatibility (Waves, Base, BNB), it ensures interoperability and scalability for blockchain-native and off-chain AI applications.

Model Creators & Marketplaces

2025 will see an explosion of new AI agents, and many of them will be powered by decentralized models. These models will be more advanced, incorporating human-like reasoning, memory, and even cost-awareness.

NousResearch

Nous Research is a leader in the development of human-centric language models and simulators. They focus on model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, aiming to align AI systems with real-world user experiences. Notably, they are working on a 'hunger' mechanism to introduce economic constraints to AI models, teaching agents to prioritize tasks effectively.

PondGNN

Pond is building a decentralized Graph Neural Network (GNN) model for Web 3.0, designed to learn on-chain behaviors and predict future actions. They provide tools for decentralized model creation and training, partnering with @virtuals_io to enhance AI agent capabilities.

Bagel

Bagel offers privacy-preserving infrastructure using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). Their technology ensures secure and private AI model training and deployment.

Data Providers

The quality, reliability, and integrity of data directly impact the performance of AI models. However, sourcing and labeling high-quality data is expensive, and bad data leads to poor results.

cookiedotfun

Cookie DAO builds a modular data layer for AI agents and Swarm, providing APIs for on-chain and off-chain social data. It offers extensive mindshare indicators, real-time narrative tracking, trend detection, and historical pattern analysis with AI insights.

Vana

Vana allows users to tokenize their data and trade it in Data Liquidity Pools (DLPs). It empowers users to own and monetize their data while fueling AI development through decentralized data markets.

Masa

Masa is building the largest decentralized AI data network, enabling users to securely and privately share their data. It powers dynamic and adaptive AI agents in collaboration with @virtuals_io, focusing on privacy-preserving data exchange and AI model training.

SQD Network

A decentralized indexing and querying solution for blockchain data, offering up to 100x faster indexing and 90% cost reduction compared to traditional RPC providers. Features a modular architecture with multiple products including SQD Network (distributed query engine), Squid SDK (TypeScript toolkit), SQD Cloud (PaaS), and SQD Firehose (subgraph adapter).

Space and Time

A decentralized data warehouse with sub-second ZK coprocessor for SQL, enabling trustless data processing for smart contracts. Combines comprehensive blockchain indexing with the ability to join onchain and offchain data through their Proof of SQL technology, allowing smart contracts to query complex data with ZK-proven results.

SQD.AI

SQD.AI is an AI agent data infrastructure platform designed to support the demands of billions of autonomous AI agents. It provides a decentralized data lake that enables these agents to access and manage data independently. SQD leverages blockchain technology to ensure transparency and security, with its token ($SQD) serving as a means of accessing and rewarding participants in the ecosystem. The platform is designed to scale with the growing need for real-time, high-throughput data in the AI industry.

Verification & Security

Trust is the foundation of decentralized AI. As AI agents become more autonomous, we need systems that allow us to verify what's happening under the hood.

Ora Protocol

Ora Protocol is exploring infrastructure for secure AI, focusing on verifiability and trust in decentralized systems. While their tokenomics are still under development, they aim to provide tools for ensuring the integrity of AI agents and their outputs.

hyperbolic labs

Hyperbolic Labs is pioneering Proof-of-Sampling, a novel approach to verify AI computation and inference. This ensures that AI outputs are accurate and generated by the claimed algorithms or models.

Phala Network

Phala Network is known for its Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) infrastructure, which adds a layer of security for decentralized AI. It ensures that AI agents operate independently, securely, and without manipulation.

Marlin Protocol

Marlin is a verifiable computing protocol leveraging TEEs to allow complex workloads (like AI agents/models, DeFi strategies or automation tasks) to be deployed over a decentralized cloud.

Aizel Network

A modular network dedicated to verifiable AI, covering the full workflow from inference to execution. Aizel combines TEE & MPC technologies to provide scalable, privacy-preserving AI verification with web2-level performance and costs.

Compute Providers

The computational needs for AI are skyrocketing—doubling roughly every 100 days. Traditional cloud services like AWS aren't scalable for this demand, both in cost and accessibility.

Aethir

AethirCloud is a decentralized compute network tailored for AI and Web3. It allows anyone with spare resources to join the network, offer their compute power, and earn rewards, addressing the scalability and cost issues of traditional cloud services.

IO

io.net delivers scalable compute solutions for AI workloads, enabling efficient and cost-effective access to computational resources. It focuses on meeting the growing demands of AI by leveraging decentralized infrastructure.

GAIB

GAIB AI introduces GPU-backed debt financing models to help data centers finance and scale their operations. This innovative approach opens up decentralized compute to a broader audience by addressing financial barriers.

Venice.ai

Agents may utilize this API for private, uncensored inference (text, image, code).

iGam3

iGam3 is a decentralized edge network designed to power AI agents by leveraging Zero-Knowledge (ZK) technology to ensure privacy and security. Built on blockchain infrastructure, it integrates AI processing with Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) to enable scalable, decentralized AI solutions. One of the core layers to this network, iGam3, aims to democratize access to AI and empower individuals and small groups to drive innovation.

AGI Open Network (AON)

AON is an open platform designed to empower anyone to create, deploy, and monetize AI Agents.

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