What can you build with Shade Agents?

With their extensive list of features, Shade Agents unlock a wide range of new use cases, enable many previously centralized apps to become decentralized, and change how blockchain applications are designed.

Shade Agent Features

Shade Agents are:

• AI Powered - Verifiably access LLMs.

• Multichain - Can hold any crypto asset and sign transactions on any chain.

• Non-custodial - No one entity controls the private keys of the agent (MPC signing).

• Verifiable - Agent code is known and executes as expected; no one can tamper with the agent.

• Confidential - Inputs and state of the agent can be private.

• Flexible - Interact with off-chain data and APIs beyond blockchain VM limits.

• Low cost - Run intensive computation cheaply without gas limits (~20% TEE overhead compared to standard servers).

Agentic Protocols

Shade Agents enable a new paradigm of decentralized applications where a major component of the logic for a protocol is run in a verifiable off-chain environment. This allows for more flexibility in terms of computation, cost, privacy, and the data you have access to. Agentic Protocols are designed to be autonomous, proactive, and intelligent.

• A Yield Optimizer that earns optimal yield on assets across various DeFi protocols on different chains and autonomously rebalances according to a verifiable algorithm.
• A private DAO agent on Ethereum Mainnet that takes votes confidentially and publishes the end result in a single transaction.
• A staking protocol that can implement complex reward mechanics.

Smart Contracts using LLMs

Shade Agents allow you to access LLMs from a smart contract that lives on any chain. The LLM and agent are both running in a TEE, so we know that the response from the agent is actually from an LLM and its response is a function of the provided inputs.

There are two main flows:

• The smart contract emits an event during a function call, the agent indexes this, uses the LLM to make a decision, and the agent calls a function on the contract with the result that is restricted to the agent's address.
• Users interact with the agent which makes decisions via the LLM and carries out certain on-chain actions based upon the decision (transfers, function calls, swaps, etc.).

With this, you could create:

• A DAO with an AI President that makes decisions based on aggregate user opinions, historical context, and user reputation formulated from on-chain and off-chain data.
• A decentralized social platform that uses an LLM to moderate content.
• A treasury that trades assets according to news, sentiment, and historical price.

Custom Authentication

Shade agents allow users to control accounts through ways other than a private key and have it be non-custodial.

• A prediction market that lets you create new markets and place bets all from Twitter (X).
• A more secure social onboarding experience where you can log in via Google, Email, etc.
• A Telegram bot for trading within a group chat.

Flexible Oracles

Since Shade Agents can access off-chain data and APIs, they make great cheap, flexible, quick-to-spin-up oracles.

• A custom data oracle where app developers list a number of different sources, a consensus mechanism (4 of 5 sources state the same data), and the frequency with which data is pushed (or on demand), which allows smart contracts to access any data verifiably.
• A prediction market resolver agent that uses an LLM to interpret multiple webpages and APIs to resolve markets quickly and accurately.
• Verifiable randomness oracle.