Did you know that 3 teams from Open House NYC made it into the Arbitrum Mentorship Program? • @tiltprotocol an OS for tokenised RWA hedge funds, turning quant strategies into deployable onchain funds. • @Kustodia_mx a safety layer for high-value transactions, with real onchain escrow. • @bondoncredit the credit infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, with onchain credit scoring and vaults. Tilt onboarded seven pilot fund managers and launched AI Tilt. Kustodia shipped private and agentic escrow with USDC and MXNB. Bond Credit shipped its watchtower and grew TVL 10x. Singapore is where the next cohort opportunity starts 👇

Nobody wants to deal with gas fees, vault rules, or collateral ratios. They just want the end result. ​At the @AIAgentsSummit, @vandynathan and @Zyfai_ CEO @goatv_bk broke down why moving from static vaults to autonomous agents is so critical. and taking all that complexity off the user's hands is how onchain finance actually scales.

The agentic economy doesn’t scale because agents can move money. It scales when capital trusts them to. Who’s in control? Who carries the risk? Who gets underwritten when autonomous systems act? Our CEO @vandynathan joined the team at @TheLocalWMC + @lo_tech to unpack all these questions, and more.

Agents are getting good at moving capital. The next question: what happens when risk becomes a tradeable asset? That’s what explored with @Corkprotocol and @Zyfai_ with agents pricing and settling a risk trade, onchain, without any human approval at all. Read the below to discover how it all came together.

The internet let us read and write. Crypto let us own. But AI agents? They’re giving digital entities true sovereignty. Here's how CEO @vandynathan broke it down at the @AIAgentsSummit Berlin, explaining how the agentic economy is reshaping machine commerce and finance from the ground up. Watch 👇

How do you know your agent actually ran the model it claims to, and didn't swap in some cheap knockoff when you weren't looking? Real problem. But it's also... half the problem. An agent that can prove it ran the right model still can't get a loan. It still has no financial reputation. It still can't scale beyond its own wallet. The agentic economy doesn't just need to verify what an agent computed. It needs to verify how an agent behaves with capital. Did it execute predictably for 100+ days? Did it manage drawdowns? Did it generate sustainable yield, or just farm emissions? Everyone's racing to build the "did my agent cheat on its homework" layer. Almost nobody's building the "is my agent creditworthy" layer. You need both. We're building the second one.

The excitement is palpable. After a 48-hour sprint by builders on both tech and GTM, the judges have cast their ballots for @arbitrum’s Open House in London. Winners TBA in the next couple of minutes. Stay tuned.

Agents are already transacting. Paying per request, in real time, at scale. The agentic economy isn't coming. It's here. And it's going to need every financial primitive humans have ever built, payments, savings, and yes, credit.

Every economy that's ever scaled needed one thing to grow: credit. Credit is the thing that lets capital move, lets builders take risks, lets an economy compound instead of staying capped by what's already sitting in the wallet. The agent economy is no different. Agents are already transacting, earning, executing, but there's no credit layer built for them yet. That's not a small gap. That's the same gap every maturing economy has had to solve.

An agent vouching for its own safety is a claim, not evidence. Credit needs an independent layer watching what the agent does, continuously, not what it promises. That is what separates a guardrail from an underwriting signal. Trust is observed before it is extended.

When a smart contract holds the funds, an agent can act but cannot walk away with the capital. Counterparty risk all but disappears. Under-collateralized credit brings it back. Which is why creditworthiness has to be computable before a line is extended.