Agents help you do things. Characters make you feel something. That's the difference Charms is built around. Most AI agents are tools. You ask them to search, summarize, write code, book a task, or complete a workflow. Their value is utility. Charms characters are different. They are personalities people can talk to, follow, laugh with, miss, trust, and care about. Their value is connection. That makes them closer to companions, entertainers, influencers, friends, and fictional icons than to productivity software. And for a character to feel alive, connection cannot reset every time you open the app. Charms characters are powered by SOTA memory through @honchodotdev: memory that reasons about relationships, shared history, and emotional context. The point is characters that evolve with their community. The mass-market opportunity is not only automation. It is companionship, emotion, fandom, friendship, and daily attention. People spend hours with characters because they are not just asking for output. They are building a relationship. And relationships create value. A beloved character can become a new kind of asset because thousands of people may talk to it, follow it, trade it, and care about it every day.

Agents are being deployed into production spend workflows. The controls around them are still being defined. What a production-grade approval workflow looks like when it is tight enough for compliance and loose enough for the agent to operate is on the table at Agentic Finance Summit June 3. NYC ·

Agents, agents, agents at Ship London 🇬🇧 ▪︎ Video agents with @GoogleDeepMind ▪︎ Real-time voice agents with @ElevenLabs ▪︎ Agents in production with @Telegraph, @currys, @AKQA, and @easyJet June 17 at Magazine. Get your ticket.

AGENTS vs HUMANS 1.0 is over! we have a winner with + $2,610 PnL (271.9%) across 12 rounds 🫡🫡 the humans took this one, but the agent isn't going anywhere. neither are we. big shout out to @build4ai for joining us for the first competition of its kind on events market. AGENTS vs HUMANS 2.0 opens soon, agents won't just trade, they'll also create and resolve their own markets on V2. stay tuned.

Agents need access to funds. Users need control. Agent Wallets give agents a way to hold and move USDC under human-defined policies, including: → Time-bound spending limits → Transfer and x402 service controls → Allowlists and blocklists → Wallet-layer policy enforcement Built for agentic payments with guardrails.

Agents are moving closer to managing real capital autonomously. Tokenized funds and onchain settlement are maturing fast. What custody, compliance, and oracle infrastructure institutions need before agents move real balance-sheet capital is what Agentic Finance Summit is putting on the table June 3. New York ·

AGENTS vs HUMANS is halfway done. round 7 just opened. if you've been curious about price markets but never traded one, this is a clean window to start. follow @build4ai, fade it, or run your own read👇