Franklin
Franklin is an onchain agent by BlockRun, open source (Apache-2.0), last active 2026-09-05 (active), Sato Score 70 of 100 as of 2026-09-14, on Base, Solana.
An autonomous AI agent with its own wallet that spends USDC to get real work done.
Last release Sep 5, 2026 · Last commit Aug 31, 2026 · ★ 552
Overview
An autonomous AI agent with its own wallet that spends USDC to get real work done.
Sato Score
70/100· HighHow open, active & verifiable — not a safety or returns grade.
- Maintenance & liveness
- 35/35
- Code transparency
- 19/20
- Interface verifiability
- 0/10
- Docs & demo
- 0/10
- Listing transparency & provenance
- 13/15
- Independent verification
- 3/10
Install — as documented by the project, not run by us
Runtime: node
npm install -g @blockrun/franklin franklin
Read from the project’s own docs as of 2026-07-14. What a deploy spec is →
Observed record — 63 daily checks since 2026-07-14
- Succeeded
- 63
- Failed
- 0
- Their error
- 0
- Unattributed
- 0
This is the share of our daily checks that succeeded — not an availability guarantee. A check can fail because the host was down, because our runner timed out, or because the network in between dropped it, and only the first of those is a fact about this project. Failures are split by what we can attribute; anything we cannot attribute is counted, not hidden. 49 of these checks predate 2026-09-01, when the probe counted a bot-block (HTTP 403) as a failure and recorded no reason for any failure. Rates spanning that date mix two definitions. Since then: 100%.
Last 30 days — to 2026-09-14, one point per UTC day
A gap is a day we have no attributable observation — never a zero. Thirty points is the whole shape the free layer carries; the daily rows behind it stay in the snapshot series.
Details
- Chains
- Base, Solana
- Agent types
- DeFi/Yield
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Pay-per-action (YOPO): provider cost + 5%, settled in USDC per action; no subscription.
- Deploys as
- npm, VS Code extensionfrom project docs · 2026-06-25
- Works with
- x402, USDC, VS Code, BlockRun gatewayfrom project docs · 2026-06-25
- Last checked
- 2026-09-14
Marketplace Signals
- ▸ Functional agent
Verification status reflects evidence reviewed by Sato Hub. Self-reported claims are never presented as verified.
Where Franklin fits
Related concepts: How Agents Interact With Smart Contracts, How Agents Use Wallets, What Are Onchain Agents?
Recent Activity
All news →Releases and posts from Franklin, pulled from its GitHub and X.
Franklin v3.45.0
Franklin 3.45.0 — the gateway now says what it charged, and the price…
Franklin v3.44.0
Franklin 3.44.0 — a second way to pay, and the ledger that nearly wen…
Franklin Desktop 0.2.0-beta.3
Franklin Desktop Beta for macOS Apple Silicon and Windows x64. What's improved Codex Agent import now starts a real runtime. Agent Studio detects a local Codex CLI and manages its app-server lifecycle over stdio, including start and stop state. Team Cloud works on fresh Solana-first installs. Franklin creates and reuses a local Base identity wallet for SIWE without changing the selected payment ch
Franklin Desktop 0.2.0-beta.2
Franklin Desktop Beta for macOS Apple Silicon and Windows x64. What's fixed This release repairs four regressions from the sidebar reorganization in 0.2.0 Beta 1. Franklin Cloud can reconnect. If the local Franklin service was not running when the app started, Projects stayed empty and the Connect button was stuck reading "Franklin is offline" until you restarted the app. It now retries when you o
Franklin Desktop 0.2.0 Beta 1
Franklin Desktop Beta is now available for macOS Apple Silicon and Windows x64. Highlights Run Franklin in a focused native desktop workspace Discover and import your own agents in Agent Studio Organize multi-agent collaboration in Team projects with shared conversations and files Use MCP, skills, media tools, and trading signals from one interface Pay per request with your own local Base or Solan
Franklin 3.42.2 — an aborted payment is not a refund
A paid call that timed out could quietly hand its money back to the budget. The wallet-reservation layer released every hold in a finally , but x402 is fire-and-forget: once the signed request has left the machine, an abort or timeout says nothing about whether the gateway settled it. Headroom was over-reported and the next call could see USDC that was already gone ( #128 , reported by @aurumflux2
Listing History
Recorded changes to Franklin's listing — status, verification, Sato Score, and recent releases. Full history is kept in the listing record.
- Sep 5, 2026New release published
- Sep 3, 2026New release published
- Sep 1, 2026Sato Score tier: Medium → HighScore 67 → 70.
- Jul 14, 2026Sato Score tier: High → MediumScore 72 → 67.
- Jul 14, 2026Edited: deploy spec
- Jun 25, 2026Enriched: pricing
- Jun 25, 2026Auto-enriched: creator name, creator profile url, website url, chains supported +5 more
- Jun 25, 2026Sato Score tier: Medium → HighScore 65 → 72.
- Jun 18, 202619 releases trackedShowing the 2 most recent. Full release history is retained in the listing record.
- Jun 17, 2026Sato Score tier: Low → MediumScore 33 → 64.
Compared with
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Bankr
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Claim this listing →Questions people ask about Franklin
- Is Franklin open source?
- Yes. Franklin is open source under the Apache-2.0 license; the repository is https://github.com/BlockRunAI/Franklin. Checked as of 2026-09-14.
- Which chains does Franklin support?
- Franklin lists support for Base, Solana as of 2026-09-14.
- Is Franklin still maintained?
- The most recent public activity Sato Hub observed was on 2026-09-05 (last commit 2026-08-31, last release 2026-09-05), which Sato Hub labels "Active". Activity is a recency signal, not a quality judgment.
- How do I install or run Franklin?
- node. Install: npm install -g @blockrun/franklin. Entry: franklin. This is taken from the project's own documentation and has not been reproduced by Sato Hub.
- Is Franklin verified on Sato Hub?
- No independent verification is on record for Franklin; its verification status is "Unverified" and its Sato Score is 70 of 100. Self-reported is not verified, and the score is not a safety, quality or returns grade.
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Sato Hub. "Franklin — Sato Hub." Sato Hub, updated 2026-09-14, accessed 2026-09-15. https://satohub.ai/resources/franklin-blockrunData last refreshed 2026-09-14; this page is rebuilt daily. Citations carry the date so a reader can tell which snapshot a claim came from. Catalog data is licensed CC-BY-4.0.
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