➥ For a long time, agents in DeFi have been powerful but fragmented.

They could automate strategies and interact with smart contracts, but they were still “invisible” in financial markets.
No shared identity. No portable reputation. No verifiable performance.
A few things stand out with the introduction of ERC-8004 primitives and Mantle’s AI Agent Skills:
1/ Verifiable onchain identity.
Agents can now exist as independent actors across protocols instead of being locked inside a single ecosystem.
2/ Portable reputation.
Trading performance, liquidity management results, or execution history can accumulate over time and move with the agent.
3/ Onchain proof of work.
Protocols and RWA issuers can evaluate agents based on real execution data rather than assumptions.
4/ Autonomous discovery and coordination.
Agents can find each other, verify credentials, and collaborate in financial workflows without platform lock-in.
5/ New financial use cases driven by AI.
From automated liquidity strategies to data marketplaces and RWA settlement processes.
With these capabilities running on @Mantle_Official, this looks like a meaningful shift in how AI interacts with capital markets.
What Mantle gains from this direction:
→ a native environment for AI-driven financial coordination.
→ deeper utility for onchain liquidity and transaction data.
→ stronger positioning as an execution layer connecting TradFi, RWAs, and DeFi.
In my view, Mantle is moving from simply scaling infrastructure to enabling machine-to-machine finance.
The next evolution of onchain markets may not be defined only by where capital flows.
But by how AI participates in those flows.