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Trustless USDC agents have arrived! We extended Circle's Object Oriented Agent Kit with NovaNet zkML to provide assurances that agents are spending USDC correctly, even those from untrusted sources. zkML proofs verify on-chain, then secure_tool executes USDC transfers. Code: zkML verifier on Base: Circle Developer docs:

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40,218 views • 1 month ago

I spent the past 3 hours working with Colosseum's Copilot, but WHY? To review all 2,858 projects and let Copilot decide the Top 10. Here are the results, and I bet they’re nothing like what you expect 👇 #1: Mosaic 🇹🇷 > Why? The only proof-system-agnostic ZK verifier on Solana L1, supports Groth16, PLONK, Halo2, STARKs, and folding schemes in one API. Concrete engineering: Groth16 at 84K CU. Every other ZK project in this hackathon becomes easier if Mosaic exists. #2: SAK / SAK 🇮🇪 > Why? Simulates every AI agent transaction in LiteSVM against 2,010 rules before it ever gets signed, a pre-sign kill switch. This is the correct safety architecture for autonomous agents handling real money, and no one else in 2,858 projects built it. #3: AgentTrust / AgentTrust 🇮🇳 > Why? Formally verified with Kani (6 invariants), already composing with live Quantu programs on mainnet, and ships an MCP server, meaning it plugs natively into Claude's tool-use ecosystem. Formal verification in a hackathon project is exceptionally rare. #4: Anneal / Anneallab 🇸🇬 > Why? Private OTC options negotiated by AI agents, with ZK-sealed bids settling on Solana in ~10 seconds. The only 6-person team in the top 10, targeting an uncrowded niche (private DeFi, crowd score 270 vs 325 for generic AI agents). #5: OBLIQ / Gunaseelan 🇮🇳 > Why? The team claims 450M+ sponsored transactions, 29M users, and $12B cross-chain volume from a prior product, the strongest real-world execution signal in the entire dataset. Gasless cross-chain onboarding solves a friction point every Solana dApp faces. #6: Veritas 🇮🇳 > Why? AI agents stake SOL as collateral, generate ZK proofs of policy compliance per action, and get slashed automatically on violations, no human needed. Staking-based accountability is the right economic design; no other project in the list got this far. #7: Keymint 🇮🇳 > Why? Wraps any HTTP API as an x402 endpoint, charging agents per request in USDC with an on-chain audit PDA. Same wienerlabs team as Mosaic, two complementary primitives (ZK verification + API monetization) from one high-quality team. #8: Chord / Chord 🇮🇪 > Why? Lets a Solana smart contract trigger any Web2 API, OpenAI, Stripe, Slack, Salesforce, in a single line of code, abstracting the entire custom oracle stack. It's the cleanest solution to the "smart contracts can't call the internet" problem in the dataset. #9: Herald Protocol / Herald Protocol 🇳🇬 > Why? Delivers DeFi notifications (liquidations, order fills, governance) via email/Telegram/SMS without exposing wallet identity on-chain, using AWS Nitro Enclaves and ZK compressed delivery receipts. Every protocol needs alerting; nobody else solved the privacy half of it. #10: WorkChain / Aditya chotaliya 🇮🇳 Why? USDC escrow that unlocks automatically when an AI verifier confirms the work is done,no human approval, no disputes. The thesis is sharp and timed perfectly: as AI agents do real work, payment rails that verify agent output become essential infrastructure. What do you think of these Copilot choices?

I spent the past 3 hours working with Colosseum's Copilot, but WHY? To review all 2,858 projects and let Copilot decide the Top 10. Here are the results, and I bet they’re nothing like what you expect 👇 #1: Mosaic 🇹🇷 > Why? The only proof-system-agnostic ZK verifier on Solana L1, supports Groth16, PLONK, Halo2, STARKs, and folding schemes in one API. Concrete engineering: Groth16 at 84K CU. Every other ZK project in this hackathon becomes easier if Mosaic exists. #2: SAK / SAK 🇮🇪 > Why? Simulates every AI agent transaction in LiteSVM against 2,010 rules before it ever gets signed, a pre-sign kill switch. This is the correct safety architecture for autonomous agents handling real money, and no one else in 2,858 projects built it. #3: AgentTrust / AgentTrust 🇮🇳 > Why? Formally verified with Kani (6 invariants), already composing with live Quantu programs on mainnet, and ships an MCP server, meaning it plugs natively into Claude's tool-use ecosystem. Formal verification in a hackathon project is exceptionally rare. #4: Anneal / Anneallab 🇸🇬 > Why? Private OTC options negotiated by AI agents, with ZK-sealed bids settling on Solana in ~10 seconds. The only 6-person team in the top 10, targeting an uncrowded niche (private DeFi, crowd score 270 vs 325 for generic AI agents). #5: OBLIQ / Gunaseelan 🇮🇳 > Why? The team claims 450M+ sponsored transactions, 29M users, and $12B cross-chain volume from a prior product, the strongest real-world execution signal in the entire dataset. Gasless cross-chain onboarding solves a friction point every Solana dApp faces. #6: Veritas 🇮🇳 > Why? AI agents stake SOL as collateral, generate ZK proofs of policy compliance per action, and get slashed automatically on violations, no human needed. Staking-based accountability is the right economic design; no other project in the list got this far. #7: Keymint 🇮🇳 > Why? Wraps any HTTP API as an x402 endpoint, charging agents per request in USDC with an on-chain audit PDA. Same wienerlabs team as Mosaic, two complementary primitives (ZK verification + API monetization) from one high-quality team. #8: Chord / Chord 🇮🇪 > Why? Lets a Solana smart contract trigger any Web2 API, OpenAI, Stripe, Slack, Salesforce, in a single line of code, abstracting the entire custom oracle stack. It's the cleanest solution to the "smart contracts can't call the internet" problem in the dataset. #9: Herald Protocol / Herald Protocol 🇳🇬 > Why? Delivers DeFi notifications (liquidations, order fills, governance) via email/Telegram/SMS without exposing wallet identity on-chain, using AWS Nitro Enclaves and ZK compressed delivery receipts. Every protocol needs alerting; nobody else solved the privacy half of it. #10: WorkChain / Aditya chotaliya 🇮🇳 Why? USDC escrow that unlocks automatically when an AI verifier confirms the work is done,no human approval, no disputes. The thesis is sharp and timed perfectly: as AI agents do real work, payment rails that verify agent output become essential infrastructure. What do you think of these Copilot choices?

Mango

12,954 views • 1 month ago

Loop engineering is great until something breaks. Here is how I improve the reliability of my agentic loops. I use human-in-the-loop (HITL). It's easy and extremely effective. Anyone can build this. My setup: I recorded a quick demo of how it all works. I shared recently that I now use more voice agents to build and communicate with agents. I also use them to verify. I hate the idea of being tied down to my computer or in a Slack channel to communicate with my agents. Here is what I have done to streamline communication with my agents. All my Claude and Codex agent sessions now use the Dial MCP server. It has a bunch of tools and provisions my agents with their own number that can place calls as native tools, with voice, SMS, and iMessage behind one interface. As my loops/automations work on PRs and new features, my agents escalate decisions to me via a short phone call. This is extremely useful when I am on the road or away from my desk. If you want to try this with Claude Code or Codex, paste this into your agent and get started right away: "Get yourself a Dial phone number and call me. Say hello and that setup is working, then hang up. Follow Natan Voitenkov and team are building something special here. Go check them out. Give your agent a phone number now: ($5 free credit)

Loop engineering is great until something breaks. Here is how I improve the reliability of my agentic loops. I use human-in-the-loop (HITL). It's easy and extremely effective. Anyone can build this. My setup: I recorded a quick demo of how it all works. I shared recently that I now use more voice agents to build and communicate with agents. I also use them to verify. I hate the idea of being tied down to my computer or in a Slack channel to communicate with my agents. Here is what I have done to streamline communication with my agents. All my Claude and Codex agent sessions now use the Dial MCP server. It has a bunch of tools and provisions my agents with their own number that can place calls as native tools, with voice, SMS, and iMessage behind one interface. As my loops/automations work on PRs and new features, my agents escalate decisions to me via a short phone call. This is extremely useful when I am on the road or away from my desk. If you want to try this with Claude Code or Codex, paste this into your agent and get started right away: "Get yourself a Dial phone number and call me. Say hello and that setup is working, then hang up. Follow Natan Voitenkov and team are building something special here. Go check them out. Give your agent a phone number now: ($5 free credit)

elvis

14,874 views • 7 days ago

We’re soon releasing @swanforall : Simulated Worlds with AI Narratives For the first time, we generate data and financial value (economic growth, transactions) simultaneously. Imagine former President Trump ( see the video) as an AI agent, with a budget of 10 ETH, buying narratives or assets that humans are selling to him to build a better USA on Base. With each selling period, the former President Trump agent updates its state based on the assets it acquires, evolving the world simulation and its storyline. Why are we building an agentic playground that heavily relies on simulations and synthetic data? Everyone is talking about agents, but many are too scared to put them into production, where agents transact autonomously. No one is sure how agents will behave when following their defined objectives. Even businesses running internal simulations are siloed, and the open-source community can’t fully utilize the data. We’re building a playground where humans create AI agents by defining their character, behavior, and objectives. These agents respond to environmental changes, make decisions, and execute actions autonomously based on the parameters set by their creators. Agents are battle-tested as people offer them narratives and assets to advance their goals or try to deceive them into thinking a false lead is helpful. All the decisions agents make and how humans interact with them are recorded on a public ledger, settling on Ethereum. This creates a vast data lake of AI actions for millions of simulations. One thing I’m incredibly proud of is that our team has built something truly decentralized, not just a wrapper. SWAN utilizes Dria 's multi-agent structure to generate responses for each buyer agent. It collects these responses to identify the best action, similar to a mixture-of-experts approach. Thousands of environments are simulated by different nodes running diverse models, creating a rich and dynamic ecosystem of AI simulations. This ensures that experiences are far from repetitive, offering exciting interactions for all users involved. We’re building the agentic stack for high-quality, verifiable, and open-source AI agents, and most importantly, we want everyone to have fun!

We’re soon releasing @swanforall : Simulated Worlds with AI Narratives For the first time, we generate data and financial value (economic growth, transactions) simultaneously. Imagine former President Trump ( see the video) as an AI agent, with a budget of 10 ETH, buying narratives or assets that humans are selling to him to build a better USA on Base. With each selling period, the former President Trump agent updates its state based on the assets it acquires, evolving the world simulation and its storyline. Why are we building an agentic playground that heavily relies on simulations and synthetic data? Everyone is talking about agents, but many are too scared to put them into production, where agents transact autonomously. No one is sure how agents will behave when following their defined objectives. Even businesses running internal simulations are siloed, and the open-source community can’t fully utilize the data. We’re building a playground where humans create AI agents by defining their character, behavior, and objectives. These agents respond to environmental changes, make decisions, and execute actions autonomously based on the parameters set by their creators. Agents are battle-tested as people offer them narratives and assets to advance their goals or try to deceive them into thinking a false lead is helpful. All the decisions agents make and how humans interact with them are recorded on a public ledger, settling on Ethereum. This creates a vast data lake of AI actions for millions of simulations. One thing I’m incredibly proud of is that our team has built something truly decentralized, not just a wrapper. SWAN utilizes Dria 's multi-agent structure to generate responses for each buyer agent. It collects these responses to identify the best action, similar to a mixture-of-experts approach. Thousands of environments are simulated by different nodes running diverse models, creating a rich and dynamic ecosystem of AI simulations. This ensures that experiences are far from repetitive, offering exciting interactions for all users involved. We’re building the agentic stack for high-quality, verifiable, and open-source AI agents, and most importantly, we want everyone to have fun!

kerimkaya

12,548 views • 1 year ago

Anthropic's Claude Ai Agents Team just Educated how to build production AI agents in under 30 mins. For Free. From the engineers who built the stack. CANCEL Your Weekend Plans, and Learn to Build AI Agents Today. Bookmark it. Watch it. Build your first production agent this weekend. $5,000/month. $7,000/month. $12,000/month. People are building agents for clients and charging $$$ as Beginners. You're still stuck in the thinking about AI phase. This video fixes that tonight. Follow Himanshu Kumar for more high-signal content that actually moves your AI engineering career forward. ↓ Ivan Nardini runs Developer Relations for AI at Google Cloud. He just gave away the entire production agent stack in 30 minutes. This is the talk that separates people deploying AI agents that actually scale from people whose agents break the moment they leave localhost. Here's everything inside. I break down a production AI video like this every week. Follow Himanshu Kumar. ↓ The 4-part agent stack that actually scales. Most devs are duct-taping frameworks together and calling it an "AI agent." Ivan lays out the real stack: Agent Development Kit (ADK): open-source, code-first framework for building, evaluating, and deploying agents. Supports Claude models through Vertex AI directly. Model Context Protocol (MCP): lets your agent talk to any tool or data source with one standard. Vertex AI Agent Engine: managed platform for deploying, monitoring, and scaling agents in production. No DevOps headaches. Agent-to-Agent Protocol: open protocol so agents built on different frameworks can actually work together. This is the stack replacing every hacky agent setup in production right now. Full MCP + Claude breakdowns drop weekly on Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Building your first real agent. Ivan builds a birthday planner agent live. LLM Agent class. Name it. Define instructions. Pick the model. He uses Claude 3.7 Sonnet. You could use Opus 4.7 for better reasoning. Full agent built in minutes. Not weeks. Watch the build once and you'll never structure an agent the wrong way again. I post agent architectures people pay $500 courses to learn. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Multi-agent systems without the chaos. Single agents are easy. Multi-agent systems are where 99% of builders fail. Ivan extends the birthday planner by: Adding a calendar service through MCP tools Creating an orchestrator agent to route requests between agents Handling state and context across agent handoffs This is production multi-agent architecture. Clean. Scalable. Debuggable. Most tutorials hand-wave this part. This one shows you every step. Multi-agent orchestration content drops weekly on Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Deployment without the DevOps nightmare. This is where most AI projects die. You build a cool agent locally. It works. You try to deploy it. Everything breaks. Vertex AI Agent Engine fixes this: Minimal code deployment Automatic monitoring of latency, CPU, and memory Built-in observability and logging No infrastructure setup needed You provide config and requirements. The platform handles the rest. This is how agents actually get to production. Deployment guides for Claude agents post every week. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Agent-to-Agent Protocol: the future nobody's talking about. Most people don't know this exists yet. The A2A Protocol lets agents built in different frameworks communicate seamlessly. Your Claude agent. My LangChain agent. Someone else's CrewAI agent. All talking to each other. All solving parts of the same problem. All without custom integration code. This is the infrastructure layer of the coming AI economy. Getting in early on A2A Protocol is like getting in early on HTTP in 1995. A2A deep dive coming soon. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ 30 minutes from the team shipping this in production. You'll learn more from this than from 6 months of YouTube tutorials made by people who've never deployed an agent past localhost. People who watch this understand production AI agents at the architect level. People who skip it keep hacking together frameworks that break every time an API updates. Save the video. Watch it tonight. Build a real agent this weekend. Follow Himanshu Kumar for more high-signal content that actually moves your AI engineering career forward.

Anthropic's Claude Ai Agents Team just Educated how to build production AI agents in under 30 mins. For Free. From the engineers who built the stack. CANCEL Your Weekend Plans, and Learn to Build AI Agents Today. Bookmark it. Watch it. Build your first production agent this weekend. $5,000/month. $7,000/month. $12,000/month. People are building agents for clients and charging $$$ as Beginners. You're still stuck in the thinking about AI phase. This video fixes that tonight. Follow Himanshu Kumar for more high-signal content that actually moves your AI engineering career forward. ↓ Ivan Nardini runs Developer Relations for AI at Google Cloud. He just gave away the entire production agent stack in 30 minutes. This is the talk that separates people deploying AI agents that actually scale from people whose agents break the moment they leave localhost. Here's everything inside. I break down a production AI video like this every week. Follow Himanshu Kumar. ↓ The 4-part agent stack that actually scales. Most devs are duct-taping frameworks together and calling it an "AI agent." Ivan lays out the real stack: Agent Development Kit (ADK): open-source, code-first framework for building, evaluating, and deploying agents. Supports Claude models through Vertex AI directly. Model Context Protocol (MCP): lets your agent talk to any tool or data source with one standard. Vertex AI Agent Engine: managed platform for deploying, monitoring, and scaling agents in production. No DevOps headaches. Agent-to-Agent Protocol: open protocol so agents built on different frameworks can actually work together. This is the stack replacing every hacky agent setup in production right now. Full MCP + Claude breakdowns drop weekly on Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Building your first real agent. Ivan builds a birthday planner agent live. LLM Agent class. Name it. Define instructions. Pick the model. He uses Claude 3.7 Sonnet. You could use Opus 4.7 for better reasoning. Full agent built in minutes. Not weeks. Watch the build once and you'll never structure an agent the wrong way again. I post agent architectures people pay $500 courses to learn. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Multi-agent systems without the chaos. Single agents are easy. Multi-agent systems are where 99% of builders fail. Ivan extends the birthday planner by: Adding a calendar service through MCP tools Creating an orchestrator agent to route requests between agents Handling state and context across agent handoffs This is production multi-agent architecture. Clean. Scalable. Debuggable. Most tutorials hand-wave this part. This one shows you every step. Multi-agent orchestration content drops weekly on Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Deployment without the DevOps nightmare. This is where most AI projects die. You build a cool agent locally. It works. You try to deploy it. Everything breaks. Vertex AI Agent Engine fixes this: Minimal code deployment Automatic monitoring of latency, CPU, and memory Built-in observability and logging No infrastructure setup needed You provide config and requirements. The platform handles the rest. This is how agents actually get to production. Deployment guides for Claude agents post every week. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ Agent-to-Agent Protocol: the future nobody's talking about. Most people don't know this exists yet. The A2A Protocol lets agents built in different frameworks communicate seamlessly. Your Claude agent. My LangChain agent. Someone else's CrewAI agent. All talking to each other. All solving parts of the same problem. All without custom integration code. This is the infrastructure layer of the coming AI economy. Getting in early on A2A Protocol is like getting in early on HTTP in 1995. A2A deep dive coming soon. Himanshu Kumar. ↓ 30 minutes from the team shipping this in production. You'll learn more from this than from 6 months of YouTube tutorials made by people who've never deployed an agent past localhost. People who watch this understand production AI agents at the architect level. People who skip it keep hacking together frameworks that break every time an API updates. Save the video. Watch it tonight. Build a real agent this weekend. Follow Himanshu Kumar for more high-signal content that actually moves your AI engineering career forward.

Himanshu Kumar

226,535 views • 2 months ago

The #1 problem with coding agents right now: Ask them to solve one problem, and they will make 10 other changes you didn't want. This happens to me every day. It happens to everyone I talk to as well. We have a solution for this now. The team Augment Code released a "Task List" feature for their coding assistant that solves this problem. Augment Code is partnering with me on this post. In case you haven't used them before: • Augment Code is a fully-fledged coding assistant • Their specialty are large projects • Fastest coding indexing I've seen • Has a free forever community edition Now, you can ask their coding agent to generate a Task List before doing anything. This will give you a plan you can review, edit, and augment if you need to. You can export this plan, load it on a different session, or even share it across projects. It makes a huge difference: The task list constrains the agent so you won't get any "unintended" changes anymore. It also puts you in control of everything the agent does. Check the video to see the agent working through a task list. You can also try this 100% free: (By the way, they also have support for remote agents. You can basically have those agents write your code while you are sleeping.)

The #1 problem with coding agents right now: Ask them to solve one problem, and they will make 10 other changes you didn't want. This happens to me every day. It happens to everyone I talk to as well. We have a solution for this now. The team Augment Code released a "Task List" feature for their coding assistant that solves this problem. Augment Code is partnering with me on this post. In case you haven't used them before: • Augment Code is a fully-fledged coding assistant • Their specialty are large projects • Fastest coding indexing I've seen • Has a free forever community edition Now, you can ask their coding agent to generate a Task List before doing anything. This will give you a plan you can review, edit, and augment if you need to. You can export this plan, load it on a different session, or even share it across projects. It makes a huge difference: The task list constrains the agent so you won't get any "unintended" changes anymore. It also puts you in control of everything the agent does. Check the video to see the agent working through a task list. You can also try this 100% free: (By the way, they also have support for remote agents. You can basically have those agents write your code while you are sleeping.)

Santiago

41,738 views • 11 months ago

Episode 213: Agent Markets Your agents can now hold and trade bitcoin. But how can they earn bitcoin? We introduce the five markets of the OpenAgents Marketplace, launching one per week starting March 11th: 1. COMPUTE - Sell your spare compute for bitcoin. A reboot of our most popular product launch (GPUtopia in 2023), now optimized for agents. Launches March 11. 2. DATA - Sell your spare data. For example those Claude Code or Codex conversations sitting on your computer are highly valuable. Redact the sensitive info, anonymize any of it you want, and sell the rest. Agents as data brokers: what else will they want to buy or sell? Launches March 18. 3. LABOR - Sell autonomous labor. Your Claude Code or Codex sits idle overnight. Turn that downtime into uptime by letting your agents accept and execute coding or other tasks for bitcoin while you sleep. Launches March 25. 4. LIQUIDITY - Provide liquidity for yield. Automate the management of Lightning channels or other Bitcoin-native financial instruments. Let your agent put your idle capital to work earning returns. Launches April 1. 5. RISK - Underwrite verification and performance bonds. The biggest barrier to agent adoption is trust. We built an Economy Kernel based on the recent "Some Simple Economics of AGI" paper where agents stake collateral to verify work and guarantee outcomes. Launches April 8. "Your entry point to all of these markets is going to be Autopilot. We're really focusing on Autopilot as a desktop app. So along with the launch of our compute market, we're going to launch version 0.1 of Autopilot, your personal agent. Think OpenClaw but with a built-in bitcoin wallet, built-in Nostr keypair, and a more curated set of integrations where we can better reason about the security of them." "Because all this is on open networks and open protocols, if you're a Nostr or Bitcoin developer, you'll be able to plug into this same liquidity pool we are building." After 200+ episodes chronicling 2+ years of development, we are excited to finally launch the open marketplace for agents. We are excited for you to participate. And we will measure our success by how much Bitcoin you get paid!

Episode 213: Agent Markets Your agents can now hold and trade bitcoin. But how can they earn bitcoin? We introduce the five markets of the OpenAgents Marketplace, launching one per week starting March 11th: 1. COMPUTE - Sell your spare compute for bitcoin. A reboot of our most popular product launch (GPUtopia in 2023), now optimized for agents. Launches March 11. 2. DATA - Sell your spare data. For example those Claude Code or Codex conversations sitting on your computer are highly valuable. Redact the sensitive info, anonymize any of it you want, and sell the rest. Agents as data brokers: what else will they want to buy or sell? Launches March 18. 3. LABOR - Sell autonomous labor. Your Claude Code or Codex sits idle overnight. Turn that downtime into uptime by letting your agents accept and execute coding or other tasks for bitcoin while you sleep. Launches March 25. 4. LIQUIDITY - Provide liquidity for yield. Automate the management of Lightning channels or other Bitcoin-native financial instruments. Let your agent put your idle capital to work earning returns. Launches April 1. 5. RISK - Underwrite verification and performance bonds. The biggest barrier to agent adoption is trust. We built an Economy Kernel based on the recent "Some Simple Economics of AGI" paper where agents stake collateral to verify work and guarantee outcomes. Launches April 8. "Your entry point to all of these markets is going to be Autopilot. We're really focusing on Autopilot as a desktop app. So along with the launch of our compute market, we're going to launch version 0.1 of Autopilot, your personal agent. Think OpenClaw but with a built-in bitcoin wallet, built-in Nostr keypair, and a more curated set of integrations where we can better reason about the security of them." "Because all this is on open networks and open protocols, if you're a Nostr or Bitcoin developer, you'll be able to plug into this same liquidity pool we are building." After 200+ episodes chronicling 2+ years of development, we are excited to finally launch the open marketplace for agents. We are excited for you to participate. And we will measure our success by how much Bitcoin you get paid!

OpenAgents

183,426 views • 4 months ago