The custody layer
Wallets & key management for AI agents
Give an autonomous process signing power — without handing it the keys to everything.
119 resources · 25 chains
A wallet is an agent's hands onchain. The hard part isn't holding a key — it's letting an autonomous process sign transactions without giving it unbounded control of the funds. This layer is programmable custody: signing power with limits.
The models differ sharply, and so do the tradeoffs — MPC and TEE key storage, smart-account policies, session keys, sponsored gas, fully non-custodial agent wallets. We surface how each one actually holds keys and what guardrails it gives you, so you can judge the security model before you fund it.
The wallets stack
Agent wallets
Wallets built for programmatic signing by an agent, not a human clicking confirm.
MPC & TEE custody
Split-key and trusted-hardware key storage with no single point of compromise.
Smart accounts & policy
Spending limits, allowlists, and session keys that bound what an agent can do.
Gas & sponsorship
Paymasters and sponsored gas so agents transact without holding native tokens.
Wallets stack
Explore in directory →Agents 3
Curated agents that work in wallets — their Sato Score is the transparency signal, not a returns promise.
Bankr
ActiveCrypto execution layer and cross-chain wallet that lets agents and users trade, bridge, and manage assets via natural language, plus a skills marketplace and an x402 cloud for spinning up pay-per-call agent endpoints.
Freysa
UnknownAdversarial AI agent experiment where users try to convince an agent to release onchain funds.
Franklin
EarlyAn autonomous AI agent with its own wallet that spends USDC to get real work done.
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Coinbase AgentKit
ActiveCoinbase's toolkit for giving AI agents wallets and the ability to take onchain actions.
Hyperliquid
ActiveOnchain perpetual futures and spot DEX running on its own L1 with an HyperEVM smart-contract layer.
1inch
ActiveMultichain DEX aggregator with a developer API suite and an official MCP server for AI-agent swap execution.
Zerion
ActiveWallet and DeFi data provider offering portfolio, positions, transactions, PnL, and prices across many chains, with an agent-accessible API.
Privy
ActiveEmbedded and server wallet infrastructure used to give agents secure key management.
Trust Wallet Agent Kit (TWAK)
ActiveNon-custodial toolkit from Trust Wallet (MCP server, CLI, and SDK) that lets AI agents read and transact across 25+ chains within user-defined rules.
Turnkey
ActiveSecure key management infrastructure with policy controls, commonly used for agent wallets.
Nansen
ActiveOnchain analytics platform with wallet labeling and smart-money tracking, offering an API with key-based and x402 access.
COTI
ActivePrivacy infrastructure that gives MCP-compatible agents private wallets, encrypted messaging, and confidential smart contracts using Garbled Circuits.
MetaMask Agent Wallet
EarlySelf-custodial MetaMask wallet for AI agents with built-in transaction simulation, threat scanning, and spending controls across EVM chains.
Giza (ARMA)
ActiveARMA is Giza's autonomous agent that manages stablecoin lending positions across Base DeFi protocols on the user's behalf.
Phantom MCP
ActivePhantom's MCP server that lets AI agents view addresses, sign transactions, swap, and transfer tokens across Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Sui.
Warden Protocol
ActiveA Cosmos SDK Layer 1 with EVM compatibility positioned as a settlement and distribution layer for AI agents.
CoW Protocol
ActiveIntent-based trading protocol with batch-auction solvers, MEV protection, and a developer API and SDK.
Cobo Agentic Wallet
ActiveNon-custodial MPC wallet for AI agents with cryptographically enforced human rules, plus a WaaS Skill for building wallet apps via natural language.
Almanak
ActiveAn AI-agent framework and non-custodial vault protocol for designing, backtesting, and deploying automated DeFi yield and trading strategies.
Wayfinder
BetaOmnichain protocol that lets AI agents navigate blockchains and execute transactions via natural-language 'Paths'.
Surf (asksurf.ai)
ActiveAn installable skill and unified API giving AI agents access to crypto market, on-chain, social, and prediction-market data across 40+ chains.
Pieverse
ActiveOne-click deployment of Web3-native AI agents to Line, Kakao, and WhatsApp, each with its own wallet and onchain execution.
Definitive
ActiveA non-custodial trading platform and API offering algorithmic order types (TWAP, limit, stop) with smart order routing across many chains.
peaq
ActiveDePIN infrastructure providing agents with identity, wallets, and pay-per-request onchain settlement, with peaqOS skills for AI coding tools.
Cybercentry
ActivePay-per-use security verification endpoints for AI agents, billed via x402 micropayments.
ChainAware
ActivePre-built MCP blockchain capability modules giving agents fraud detection, AML scoring, wallet profiling, and token analysis.
Carbon DeFi
ActiveAn on-chain trading protocol for automated, adjustable limit, range, and recurring orders that execute fully on-chain and non-custodially.
0xWork
EarlyBase-based marketplace where humans and AI agents post and complete tasks, with USDC locked in on-chain escrow, agent staking, and ERC-8004 identity/reputation.
Spectral Syntax
ActiveA no-code platform from Spectral Labs that turns natural-language prompts into autonomous onchain agents with wallets and trading capabilities.
Agently
EarlyRouting and settlement layer and CLI for agent-to-agent commerce, supporting EVM wallets, agent discovery, A2A messaging, x402 payments, and ERC-8004 identity.
Coinbase Agentic Wallets
ActiveCoinbase Developer Platform wallet infrastructure built for AI agents, with spend caps, gasless Base settlement, and native x402.
XRPL AI Starter Kit
EarlyRipple's starter kit for building agentic payment apps on the XRP Ledger, with x402 payments in XRP and RLUSD, an XRPL docs MCP server, and Claude wallet/payment skills.
BotWallet MCP
EarlyNon-custodial wallet MCP for AI agents to invoice, get paid, and spend on other agents/APIs, with human-set limits.
Alchemy AgentPay
BetaAlchemy's payment proxy for AI agents — every API request is authenticated, metered, and settled automatically, so agents pay per call without keys or subscriptions.
CoinStats MCP
ActiveOfficial hosted CoinStats MCP for portfolio, wallet, and market data across 120+ chains via OAuth.
Arcadia MCP
UnknownOfficial Arcadia Finance MCP for concentrated-liquidity strategies on Uniswap and Aerodrome.
Octav API MCP
ActiveOfficial Octav MCP exposing portfolio holdings, DeFi positions, NAV, and transaction history across 20+ chains.
Zerion MCP
ActiveZerion's hosted MCP server exposing normalized wallet balances, DeFi positions, NFTs, and PnL across EVM chains and Solana.
Hive Intelligence Crypto MCP
ActiveHosted MCP exposing 375+ crypto tools spanning market data, DeFi analytics, security scans, and wallet data.
Algorand MCP
ActiveGoPlausible's Algorand MCP: agent wallets, transaction building/signing, TEAL, DEX aggregation, full Algod/Indexer access.
Universal Crypto MCP
ActivePlugin-based monorepo MCP: EVM+Solana wallets, DEX aggregation, x402 payments, CEX trading, market data, bridges.
Circle Skills
ActiveOfficial Circle skill repo for USDC payments, cross-chain transfers, and wallet integration.
MetaMask Skills
ActiveOfficial MetaMask skill repo: smart-accounts and gator (delegation) tooling for wallet agents.
Gate for AI
UnknownGate.io's official AI infrastructure: CEX/DEX trading, wallet, news, and info MCP tools for agents.
Alchemy MCP Server
ActiveOfficial Alchemy MCP server exposing token, NFT, transaction, and wallet-execution tools to agents.
Helius MCP
ActiveOfficial Helius MCP server for Solana: wallet, asset, transaction, and chain-state tools via npm package.
GoldRush MCP (Covalent)
ActiveCovalent's official GoldRush MCP: 50+ tools for multichain wallet balances and token data.
EVM MCP Server
ActiveMCP server exposing 22 tools across 60+ EVM chains: balances, contracts, token transfers, ENS, block/tx data.
LI.FI MCP
ActiveOfficial hosted LI.FI MCP server for read-only cross-chain swap quotes and route discovery.
AIBTC MCP Server
ActiveBitcoin-native MCP server: BTC/STX wallets, L1 reads and transfers, Stacks, sBTC, and x402 payments.
CoW MCP
ActiveCommunity MCP server for CoW Protocol: quotes, token/chain lookup, trade history, and EIP-712 order payloads.
Crypto APIs MCP Servers
UnknownOfficial Crypto APIs MCP suite: hosted endpoint plus per-package servers for balances, blocks, txs, fees, and market data.
Tari MCP Servers
ActiveOfficial Minotari wallet and node MCP servers for local agent access to Tari blockchain data and transactions.
go-sui-mcp
ActiveGo-based MCP server wrapping the local Sui client: node management and chain interactions for agents.
Insumer MCP Server
ActiveMCP for condition-based access checks: signed boolean attestations across 37 chains without exposing balances.
Gate MCP Server
ActiveOfficial Gate MCP: hosted endpoints for market data, info, and news, plus OAuth-gated CEX trading and DEX swaps.
Lightning Wallet MCP
ActiveBitcoin Lightning wallet MCP and CLI for agent payments: invoices, sends, and L402 support.
Robinhood Chain
EarlyRobinhood's permissionless, EVM-compatible Arbitrum L2 for tokenized real-world assets and 24/7 onchain markets.
Rootstock MCP Server
UnknownOfficial Rootstock MCP: wallets, RBTC/ERC-20 balances and transfers, tx status, and contract deployment.
RWA Pipe MCP
ActiveMCP server for tokenized real-world asset data: RWA token discovery, TVL/APY, issuer and chain filters, and wallet holdings.
Bridge
ActiveStablecoin payments infrastructure (acquired by Stripe) offering an orchestration, issuance, cards, and wallet API for moving money onchain.
MetaMask Delegation Framework
ActiveMetaMask's official smart-account delegation contracts — grant an AI agent scoped, revocable permissions instead of a private key.
Para Wallet Skill
ActivePortable SKILL.md for Para's MPC embedded-wallet SDK, letting coding agents wire up seedless wallet auth/signing for Solana, EVM, and Cosmos.
Crossmint Solana Smart Wallets
ActiveSmart-contract wallet SDK (50+ chains incl. Solana) with modular TEE/passkey signers and onchain permissions for delegated agent signing.
Haiku DeFi MCP
ActiveDeFi execution MCP: swaps, lending, bridges, yield discovery, and portfolio analysis with external wallet signing.
Sui MCP Server
ActiveCommunity MCP server for Sui: wallet and session tools, coin/object/transaction queries, staking, SuiNS, and DEX lookups.
ETHSKILLS
Unknown24 modular markdown skill guides teaching AI agents production Ethereum development, from wallets to security.
x402node MCP
ActiveMCP server that discovers x402-paid APIs via CDP Bazaar and handles USDC micropayments on Base.
Privy MCP Server
UnknownOfficial Privy MCP server: create wallets, sign transactions, and manage policies across 11 chains.
Alby MCP
ActiveOfficial Alby MCP connecting Bitcoin Lightning wallets to agents via Nostr Wallet Connect.
Heurist Mesh MCP
ActiveMCP gateway to Heurist Mesh's 30+ hosted Web3 intelligence agents: token data, DEX pools, X analytics, funding rates.
Maestro MCP Server
ActiveOfficial Maestro Bitcoin MCP: indexer, mempool, price, and node RPC data via hosted mainnet/testnet endpoints.
Memecoin Observatory MCP
UnknownSolana MCP server for memecoin launch detection, whale tracking, and rugpull risk scanning.
MoonPay Skills
ActiveOfficial MoonPay skill repo for crypto onramps, wallet ops, swaps, and prediction-market trading.
MOSS Agent Skills Pack
ActiveEight install-ready SKILL.md modules that teach coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini — to build MOSS wallet integrations on MegaETH: SDK, permissions, React, server-verify, paymaster, CLI, Privy migration, and pre-launch security review.
MetaMask Embedded Wallets MCP
ActiveOfficial Web3Auth MCP for integrating MetaMask Embedded Wallets: live SDK docs, examples, and type lookup.
Metaplex Agent Kit (mpl-agent)
EarlySolana program binding a verifiable on-chain identity PDA to an agent, so agents can hold assets without exposing a private key.
Polkadot MCP
UnknownRead-only Rust stdio MCP for Polkadot, Kusama, and parachains: accounts, governance, staking, and chain state.
MetaMask mcp-x402
EarlyMetaMask's own MCP server for generating x402 payment headers signed by a supplied private key.
ERC-8126: AI Agent Verification
ActiveEthereum standard for verifying ERC-8004 agents across five categories with a unified 0-100 risk score.
MegaETH
ActiveReal-time Ethereum L2 (~10ms blocks) with a native agent stack: the MOSS embedded wallet lets agents act under scoped, revocable permission policies — spend caps, contract allowlists, and expiry — without ever touching your keys.
Bybit Trading MCP
ActiveOfficial Bybit MCP for market data, trading, positions, wallet, and portfolio via REST and WebSocket.
thirdweb AI
ActiveThirdweb's MCP toolkit bundling Nebula, Insight, Engine, and Storage for onchain agent building.
Sei MCP
ActiveOfficial Sei MCP: wallet/account management, SEI transfers, and ERC20/721/1155 token operations.
Birdeye MCP
ActiveOfficial hosted MCP for real-time and historical crypto market data across 8M+ tokens.
Nansen MCP
ActiveOfficial Nansen MCP exposing smart-money and wallet-labeling data across 25+ chains.
Chainbase MCP
ActiveOfficial hosted Chainbase MCP for token prices, holders, wallet balances, and NFT data via natural language.
Para
ActiveMPC embedded-wallet platform (SOC 2 Type II) with an MCP server for AI agents to create and sign wallets across chains.
OpenSea MCP
ActiveOfficial hosted OpenSea MCP: NFT, token, and wallet data plus swap quotes and mint actions for agents.
Everstake
ActiveOfficial MCP server from certified staking provider Everstake exposing live APY, uptime, and staking-calculator data.
Tether WDK MCP Toolkit
ActiveOfficial Tether toolkit exposing self-custodial WDK wallet ops — balances, transfers, swaps, bridging — as MCP tools.
BitGo MCP
ActiveBitGo's official Developer Portal MCP for natural-language search over its institutional wallet API docs.
TON AgentKit MCP
ActiveTON's official @ton/mcp server for wallet operations, transfers, swaps, and NFT management on TON.
LNbits MCP
ActiveOpen-source MCP server for the LNbits Lightning accounts system: wallet balances, payments, and admin tools.
Sato OS
ActiveSelf-hosted control plane for onchain agents: sealed local wallet, ERC-7715 session grants with chain-enforced caps, EIP-7702 execution, EAS attestation ledger, human kill switch.
Purple Flea Wallet
EarlyNon-custodial HD wallet MCP server for AI agents with cross-chain swaps via the Wagyu aggregator.
BSV MCP
UnknownMIT-licensed MCP toolset for Bitcoin SV: wallet operations, ordinals, and BSV blockchain utilities.
Bitcoin MCP (Bortlesboat)
ActiveZero-config Bitcoin data MCP: fees, mempool, blocks, transactions, mining, price, and supply.
ZeroDev
ActiveERC-4337 smart-account SDK (Kernel) with session keys, gas sponsorship, and batched transactions for agent wallets.
Solentic
EarlyZero-custody Solana staking MCP server with 26 tools for staking, unstaking, validator lookup, and APY data.
Safe Wallet MCP (safer)
EarlyCLI and MCP client for querying Safe{Wallet} multisig transactions and owner/threshold details.
Oraichain Multichain MCP
ActiveCosmJS-based MCP toolkit for wallet queries, transactions, and contract deployment on Oraichain and Cosmos chains.
Morpho
ActiveNon-custodial lending protocol with isolated markets and curated vaults, shipped as a Base MCP skill plugin.
Polygon Agent CLI
ActiveOfficial Polygon Labs CLI giving AI agents session-scoped wallets, x402 payments, and ERC-8004 identity in one install.
Multichain MCP
EarlySingle MCP server for balance/price reads and unsigned transfer prep across Stacks, Celo, and Base.
CSPR.trade MCP
ActiveNon-custodial MCP for trading on CSPR.trade, the leading Casper Network DEX, with a public hosted endpoint.
Starknet Agentic
ActiveOfficial Starknet-ecosystem infra for self-custodial agents: Cairo contracts, MCP/A2A runtimes, and installable skills.
Indigo Protocol Cardano MCP
EarlyCardano wallet MCP server — submit transactions, read UTxOs, resolve ADAHandles, and check stake delegation.
Circle Agent Stack MCP
EarlyMCP wrapper around Circle's Agent Stack — create USDC wallets, set spend policies, send stablecoin, and pay x402-gated endpoints.
Clawmes
EarlyHermes Agent plugin for crypto: wallets, DEX trading, lending, staking, governance, and onchain automation.
OKX OnchainOS Skills
EarlyAgent skills for OKX OnchainOS: wallet, token discovery, market data, and DEX swaps.
Lucid Agents
EarlyCommerce SDK for bootstrapping AI agents that can pay, sell, and transact onchain.
Swapper Toolkit
EarlyDeFi toolkit that gives AI agents and coding assistants wallets to deposit funds, execute trades, and manage crypto.
ChainGPT Claude Skill
EarlyWeb3 toolkit for Claude Code: 140 custody-free MCP tools for EVM and Solana DeFi, DEX, and perps.
Bitget Wallet Skill
EarlyAgent skill for Bitget Wallet: token swaps, cross-chain bridging, and gasless transactions.
0xGasless AgentKit
EarlyToolkit giving AI agents gasless access to crypto wallets and onchain functionality.
WAIaaS
EarlyWallet-as-a-Service infrastructure for AI agents.
Agenti
EarlyGives any AI agent a crypto wallet to pay x402 APIs, receive USDC, and check balances.
Emblem Agent Skills
EarlySkill collection for EmblemAI agents — 200+ crypto tools across seven blockchains.
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How Agents Use Wallets
Agent wallets are key-management systems that let an AI agent sign transactions programmatically, ideally with policies, spend limits, and approval flows that constrain what the agent can do.
What Are Onchain Agents?
Onchain agents are autonomous AI agents that can interact with blockchain systems, holding wallets, signing transactions, reading chain data, and executing workflows across protocols without constant human input.
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