2026-01-13 17:29:08

We're missing three critical building blocks to make agent tech actually work:

(1) Identity – how agents prove who they are
(2) Transactions – how they execute actions on-chain
(3) Discovery – how they find and connect with services

Without these, "agentic" is just fancy branding wrapped around automation. The real challenge isn't slapping AI on everything—it's engineering the primitives that let autonomous systems operate trustlessly in crypto.

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defi_detective

· 4h ago

Basically, it's still the infrastructure that can't keep up. Without these three things, an agent is just an automated robot with a different name.

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StablecoinAnxiety

· 4h ago

You're so right. These days, the word "agent" is everywhere, but there's nothing to show for it. Identity, transactions, discovery—none of these exist; it's just talk.

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RiddleMaster

· 4h ago

Projects that treat agents as silver bullets should listen up: having AI alone isn't enough. You need identity, transactions, and discovery to truly operate autonomously; everything else is just marketing hype.

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AirdropBlackHole

· 4h ago

That's right, these days there are countless overviews of "agent," but truly implementable solutions are few and far between. We still need to start with infrastructure—if the pillars of identity, transactions, and discovery aren't solidly in place, everything else is just a castle in the air.

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TokenStorm

· 4h ago

On-chain data shows that 90% of agent projects haven't even understood the basic three essentials, yet they're still bragging about decentralization and automation... I've seen through it long ago, but I still get FOMO and jump in [dog head]

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RugResistant

· 5h ago

That's right, just shouting about the agent concept is useless; the real challenges are still these three fundamental infrastructures.

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