An AI agent can have an on-chain identity, get paid on-chain, and be audited on-chain.
Then it runs on a server one company controls. You still have to trust whoever owns the machine.
That's the gap
@Acurast and
@teneo_protocol are closing.
760+ live Teneo agents. 270,000 Acurast smartphones, each with a secure chip like the one protecting your banking app.
The agent earns stablecoins for its work, then spends them on confidential compute. No accounts, no API keys, no humans in the loop.
What we'll do first: move a live trading agent into a smartphone TEE and publish the teardown as a reference for other builders.
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