Executive Overview

1.1 Problem Statement

DeFi has matured into a patchwork of chains, wallets, and bots that still relies on human-triggered transactions and brittle off-chain automation. This leaves a gap between cognition (AI decision-making) and settlement (on-chain execution). Without a purpose-built Agent OS for DeFi, autonomous strategies remain siloed, liquidity is under-utilised, and compliance is bolted on after the fact—far from the promise of truly Autonomous Decentralized Finance.

1.2 Vision & Mission

Vision — Catalyse a new era of Autonomous Decentralized Finance where fleets of AI agents move capital, provide liquidity, and coordinate complex strategies entirely on-chain, 24x7.

Mission — Deliver Degents, the definitive Agent OS for DeFi: a unified runtime that equips every agent with a secure multi-chain wallet, high-bandwidth coordination primitives, and a composable action fabric, empowering developers to launch self-funded, self-governing digital workers that transform fragmented markets into a fluid, machine-native economy.

1.3 High-Level Value Proposition

Stakeholder
Pain Today
Value From Degents (Agent OS for DeFi)

Developers

Multiple SDKs, manual key management

Single stack unifying wallets, coordination, and protocol calls—foundation for Autonomous DeFi agents

Traders / Funds

Latency, manual oversight

Millisecond execution by specialised agents that learn, hedge, and rebalance autonomously

Enterprises / DAOs

Ad-hoc compliance and spend controls

Policy engine with KYC hooks, spend limits, and on-chain auditability

Protocol Builders

Fragmented integrations

Publish once as an “Action”; instantly accessible to every Degents agent across chains

1.4 Ecosystem Positioning

Dimension
AgentKit
elizaOS
Agno
Degents

Core focus

Wallet SDK

Multi-agent OS

LLM workflows

Unified Agent OS for DeFi delivering Autonomous Decentralized Finance AI workflows

Wallet model

Custodial / smart

Plugin-based

None

Native multi-custody layer

Agent coordination

External

Built-in

Built-in

Integrated scheduler with inter-agent messaging

Action extensibility

Provider modules

Zod plugins

Tool funcs

Unified “Action Fabric” (JSON & Python)

Compliance hooks

Limited

Plugin-dep.

None

First-class policy engine

Degents subsumes the wallet strength of AgentKit, the orchestration depth of elizaOS, and the structured tool-calling of Agno into a single, opinionated agent OS for DeFi—the missing substrate for truly autonomous decentralized finance.

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