AI Agent Infrastructure Expands with Cross-Chain Tools
The AI and crypto sectors are converging with new infrastructure launches aimed at autonomous agents. 0x has launched a cross-chain API beta to power "agentic swaps," enabling AI agents to execute trades across multiple blockchains. Separately, a new platform called Sumvin is launching an AI-driven delegated finance protocol on the Sei Network to automate DeFi strategy management.
The 0x cross-chain API aggregates liquidity from various bridges, allowing AI agents to find the best price or fastest execution for trades across more than 15 blockchains, including major EVM networks and Solana. This infrastructure is designed to be compatible with emerging AI agent payment and authentication standards from Coinbase, Google, and OpenAI. By abstracting the complexity of individual blockchains, developers can build agents that focus on trading logic rather than cross-chain mechanics. Sumvin's choice of the Sei Network is strategic, leveraging its sub-second finality and low transaction costs to support the high-frequency actions required by AI financial assistants. The platform is not just a decentralized finance (DeFi) application but a hybrid model designed to interoperate with legacy financial systems. At its core is a reusable, cryptographically anchored digital credential, allowing an AI agent to prove a user's identity and permissions across different services without repeated KYC checks. The broader trend of merging AI and crypto is exemplified by projects like Fetch.ai, which is building a decentralized digital economy powered by autonomous agents that can perform tasks like DeFi trading and supply chain management. These agents operate within an "Agentverse," a cloud-based environment for building and deploying them. Another key player in this space is SingularityNET, a decentralized marketplace for AI services. It allows developers to monetize AI tools and for different AI agents to collaborate and form more complex applications. This open ecosystem aims to democratize access to AI capabilities. Ocean Protocol contributes to this ecosystem by creating a marketplace for data, a crucial component for training AI models. It allows data to be tokenized and monetized while preserving privacy, enabling AI practitioners to access datasets that were previously unavailable. This is facilitated through a "Compute-to-Data" model where algorithms run on data remotely without exposing the raw data. In July 2024, Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and Ocean Protocol announced the creation of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI). This initiative merges the three entities to leverage Fetch.ai's autonomous agents, SingularityNET's work in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and Ocean Protocol's secure data-sharing infrastructure.
