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Get Started with DeFAI

gm Bankless Nation, AI agents want to make DeFi easier to use and abstract away the complexity; do we trust them?
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Jan 10, 20252 min read
Get Started with DeFAI
Published on Jan 10, 2025
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Sponsor: Uniswap Labs — Uniswap Labs launched a $15.5 million bug bounty to help secure V4.

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NEED TO KNOW
World Hits 10 Million
  1. 👁️ World Surpasses 10 Million Human Verifications. World, formerly Worldcoin, has surpassed a major progress milestone.
  2. 👜 U.S. Finance Regulator Goes After Crypto Wallet Providers. Biden admin regulators go after MetaMask and other wallet providers.
  3. 🇬🇧 UK Creates Crypto Staking Regulatory Carveout. Crypto asset staking providers set to win big with proposed amendment.
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MARKET VIBES
Good News Meltdown

📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Despite a brutal day on Wall Street caused by better-than-expected jobs numbers showing a tough path forward for rate cuts, crypto markets trended subtly upward after days of downward price action which took BTC and ETH near monthly lows.

Prices as of 5pm ET 24hr 7d
Crypto $3.30T ↗ 2.8% ↘ 5.7%
BTC $94,795 ↗ 3.1% ↘ 3.8%
ETH $3,264 ↗ 1.8% ↘ 9.8%
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ANALYSIS
DeFAI: Top Projects Tackling AI Agents + DeFi
Bankless Author: Kazu Umemoto

Last month, we released our list of the top AI agent infrastructure plays and tokens, but hype surrounding this sector has led to builders quickly innovating on new ideas since then. Onchain agents have evolved from posting tweets to 'running' investment DAOs, and now developers are creating entire applications that leverage these AI agents in navigating DeFi. 

While most of these projects have launched fairly recently, the buzz is building for the sector, and many think there could be huge waves in the DeFAI space soon.

Here are our top DeFAI plays and tokens that we’re watching at Bankless👇 


FRIEND & SPONSOR: UNISWAP

Uniswap Labs is offering the largest bug bounty ever: $15.5M for critical bugs in Uniswap v4! Built with community contributions and rigorously audited, v4 will be one of the most audited codebases ever to be deployed onchain, and continues Uniswap’s commitment to security.

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