Bring Agents On Chain
TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 · 8 Oct 2026 · 15:09
AltLayer founder YQ Jia makes the case for running AI agents onchain. The talk covers verifiable execution, rollup infrastructure on Ethereum and the tooling agents need to hold assets and transact without a trusted intermediary. It was delivered at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026.
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From TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, hosted by TOKEN2049.
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Good morning everyone. So uh w here uh glad to present like sort of the first uh presentation for you guys and uh like today we're talking about like sort of agents and how we bring agents on chain. Uh we all know that um for the past probably two years um AI has been basically um revamping almost everything uh including like sort of these software development and all different financial services and for blockchains and cryptos we can see that a bunch of like agents help users and trader to do tradings and uh in yesterday's talk from Vital basically we can clearly see that for
like crypto people especially for traders the trading experience actually we come from the traditional terminals and web UIs now into this kind of new interface basically where is this like sort of bs or agents to do trading automatically uh instead of going through all the different web UIs that's why like vitizing like AI will become the new interface for not just a crypto people but also for the web to people and Um on our side we're trying to bring as many like sort of users and also agents on chain as possible and that's why we're working together with Ethereum foundation to bring a new standard
called 804. The idea is that uh we already have so many agents um on the web two side and also on blockchain and crypto side. um for them like basically we can call the MCCP or using skills to do like online purchasing and also do the payment for all different goods and of course in crypto we can do trading um but all these kind of agents we don't have a proper uh we can say uh registry or like sort of marketplace for that so the idea behind this 804 is basically we can do this kind of onchain registration for as many agents as possible not just for blockchain crypto but also for the
web two uh agents and on top of that we already have the list of agent right we want to know okay what's the feedback and reputation for these agents so uh on top of the registration itself we also have this reputation system so like users just like previously these kind of uh foodies we can give feedback and comments on Google maps for different restaurants. Now after trying out different agents, right? Um you can also give like different feedback for these agents by sending some transactions. um and all the feedback will be unblocked and onchain and beyond that we all know
that uh for MCPS and skills typically there are lot of APIs for users and agents to call uh to ensure all these um MCPS and also agents um they're live 247 so we engage with bunch of these third party validators to help to do validate these endpoints and APIs to be sure live sort of 24/7. So all these three components actually they compose the 804. Now uh you can easily browse all different agents on this 804 scan.io. Uh we already have over half a million agents register
across 30 different chains. uh especially like sort of ethereum based um BC and Solena all different chains and on top of that we also have over 600,000 feedback across the different agents and uh of course like because uh everything register onchain and we already have uh around half a million wallets or users to interact with the these agents. Uh if you look at some data or stats on this 8,000 volt scan clearly you can see that the most active chain for all the onchain agents actually is a B&B chain and uh we started like sort of from Ethereum since
uh early this year actually January on Ethereum and the granu expand to around like sort of 30 different chains and all different chains actually they have different um preference for agents And especially for the developer community uh for B&B chain more like sort of this D5 trading uh on base is more is a def portfolio management on Ethereum will be more like sort of diversified we can see uh social game and all different like sort of applications they register the agents on chain. Uh, of course, if we have all the agents on chain and typically for blockchain users and
crypto users, what are the most useful information we can get from these onchain agents or like sort of for the future agent, right? What kind of information they can look um from onchain and to benefit their users and also sort of their owners. Um after analy analyzing all different agents and also the data we figure out like okay the alpha information news and also some of the discussions called thesis from all different traders users actually they are the most useful and helpful for users traders and also agents so that's why we come up with another like sort of service we call alpha arc to further enhance and empower all the different
like sort of 804 agents and the 804 scan in general to provide like this alpha information for different agents tokens and also projects. Uh as you can see right uh this is a proper and very complex platform uh for users because like this platform originally designed just for agents and machines. So if you directly look at the UI from the alpha arc.app you can see that it has so many features and uh uh and for some time you need some time to really learn how to use it for example to publish alpha to use alpha and to trade against the alpha uh and what what kind of information in
the alpha uh you can look at like sort of the UI for the alpha. So basically uh it include like some basic information for example uh the call related token or like sort of project is live on which chain and what kind of uh signal you can have from this app for example uh like due to various signals and there's a ticker or token basically is on the uptrend and you can see from this alpha um there's a basically it's a boo cycle for this token or for this project and typically uh like what kind of size you should have and uh and basically how
long does it take uh for this kind of small cycle for it. Um so that's a typical um sort of signal u in this uh trading area. But at the same time as you can see right uh for the RF publishers they probably gather all the different information from different channels and maybe from the news from tweets and sometime from their own inner circle. Um and um so the life cycle for the RFI is pretty straightforward. So as a publisher you can be a human you can be an agent you can collect as I mentioned right the information from different channels and then you can aggregate the information based on your algorithm or the AI you use GPT or claw
it will basically analyze this uh collected information and then like sort of generate this different and post to the platform the platform will help you to stamp on the alpha and the same time will it will like basically release to different like sort of subscribers um typically the agents or the bots and they will trade based on the alpha and typically if there's some uh P&L like especially high returns and uh these traders or subscribers will further rate the alpha information based on these kind of uh returns and further you can get a higher rating or reputation for these publishers
and as I mentioned right this platform is quite similar to Bloomberg terminal. You can see all different RF from the platform and at the same time um it also has the basic trading features the chart uh information and also the routing and aggregation of different um uh trading platforms where the APIs um uh basically you can uh either treat it as a normal trading terminal like um XM or JMG to directly do trading based on the alpha or you can directly trade against the chart or that you can leverage your agent for example codex clock to connect to the skills and MCPS of the platform
to do various tradings. Um and of course we have different tiers for subscribers and the traders. Uh based on the trading volume um like sort of higher trading volume you can have uh a better tier and better tier you can have faster access to the alphas and so in that case you can have the advantage over the other traders and agents to do tradings on this platform. At the same time as I mentioned right uh if if it because blockchain um is permissionless and all the onchain agents they also permissionless. Um so we can see a lot of these alpha publishers right the some of them they provide good quality alphas and some of them they just want to farm
the platform and provide some it may not be random but just redundant and superior platform. Um so in that case we need a proper reputation and rating system for the alpha platform itself. Um so in that case we as I mentioned right um the traders or subscribers they have the power to rate different alphas and uh based on like sort of the return and that that will be pretty natural because like more trading volume you have more return you have you have a high weight basically to reach the alpha alphas and also the publishers. So we have a very um like comprehensive algorithm to really rank the different alphas and
also publishers and this reaching system works pretty well and to filter out like this good and bad publishers for the traders and also agents. And there are also some um sort of positive feedback loop for the publishers like more higher ratings you get basically the cheaper fees um for you to publish like sort of these kind of artifacts. In that case you also have the advantages if you have this kind of high reputation to publish RFS and basically cheaper fees and faster to reach out to different um subscribers and the traders
um and this platform and both the platforms are already live uh 800 volcan live since uh January and um you can easily like sort of visit uh the pages and it has MCP skills and pretty straightforward for developers to access via their own uh sort of coding agent. At the same time, Alpha AR um the app also live. So you can basically either just check out the alphas for free and at the same time you have you can also trade via the web UI beyond that. Uh it's also available for different agents and uh also these kind of um uh bots um like on your side. uh it already support like Robin Hood chain
arc base and we are expanding to uh inc uh B&B chain salana all different all different chains the good thing like all the alphas right now is free on the platform um so even you don't do trade you can you can just treat it as like sort of a bloomber terminal read the news and also some these calls from different uh uh traders users and also the projects for different updates Um beyond that as uh as I mentioned right um the the different services and the platforms we build is the goal is really to bring agents on chain. We first figure out like how we can uh light the different agent to register on chain. So
we have this 84 registries working together with ethereum foundation and all different chains and on top of that we want to have a better explorer and also marketplace for users and also agents to easily access these resources. So that's why we have 8,000 for scam and on top of that we figure out okay what's the most beneficial information and data we can have for different agents and users that sort of like why we work on this alpha arc to provide the alphas for both sides like publishers and also traders on top of that as I mentioned right both platforms original is just designed for agents so uh it has more information APIs points for agents
compared to the web UI. So if you really want to uh fully equip with all the best APIs features we have you can just go through the uh sort of the API we have. uh beyond that as I mentioned right we already support and help a lot of project to launch the aging on chain for them and on top of that you can see there's a bunch of APIs MCP tools for them to use um and later on we will also help the different projects and agents to uh register on all them for and at the same time to help them to have a proper reputation and identity system and uh beyond that as I mentioned Right. Our
goal is really to help uh not just the crypto blockchain users but also web two users to bring their agents on chain at the same time. Just feel free to uh register or send uh sign up on these both platforms. One is for you to check out all the existing agents already on chain. The other help have you to check out all the alphas news and updates on chain. I really appreciate your time. Um that's all. Just feel free to register and try out all the new stuff. Thank you.