From AI Strategy to Onchain Action: DeFAI
Every day, AI gets better at understanding what we want. ChatGPT can write code, and Claude can analyze strategies. In DeFi, AI agents can spot arbitrage opportunities, design yield farming strategies, and identify market trends before they happen. But there's a critical gap between what AI can think up and what it can actually do onchain.
Imagine an AI agent that spots a perfect yield farming opportunity across three protocols. It knows exactly which tokens to swap, which positions to take, and how to maximize returns. But when it comes to executing this strategy? Everything grinds to a halt. The complexity of interacting with multiple protocols, bundling transactions, and managing operations turns a brilliant strategy into an implementation nightmare.
The Rise of AI Agents
This challenge hasn't stopped teams from pushing forward. ElizaOS is building AI agents who can interact on Discord, create their own wallets, and even launch their own tokens. Virtuals Protocol creates AI agents anyone can own and monetize with little to no code. And this isn't just theoretical – AiXBT, built on Virtuals, has become a crypto twitter legend, analyzing insights from over 400 key opinion leaders and consistently topping Kaito's Yapper Leaderboards.
Now, we’re seeing a new narrative form around the fusion of AI and DeFi: DeFAI. A vision of AI agents that can not only analyze markets but actively participate in them. But for DeFAI to become reality, we must solve the execution problem.
Bridging the Execution Gap with Enso
While everyone focuses on making AI smarter, we concentrate on making it actionable. Enso built the abstraction layer that bridges the gap between AI strategy and onchain reality. Instead of spending months integrating with individual protocols, AI teams can tap into our network of 180+ pre-built integrations.
Remember that perfect yield farming strategy? With Enso, it goes from idea to execution in hours, not months. Our shortcuts handle:
- Token swaps and DeFi routing
- Asset management
- Treasury operations
- Protocol integrations
- Smart contract interactions
- Transaction bundling
This means AI developers can focus on what they do best—making their agents smarter—while we handle the complexity of onchain execution.
AI Agents Powered by Enso: DeFAI Real Stories
Take BrianknowsAI. They created a natural language interface for executing DeFi operations, where users can simply describe their desired outcome, and the AI translates it into onchain actions. By integrating with Enso, they could focus on developing their Intent Recognition Engine without worrying about integrating with multiple DeFi protocols.
Or look at SphereOne, which built an AI system that accepts conversational user prompts like "Send, Swap, Bridge." With Enso's infrastructure, they scaled rapidly, delivering results that would have been impossible without hundreds of hours of blockchain development.
Next, let's look at Velvet Unicorn, an autonomous hedge fund manager that translates simple portfolio commands into sophisticated DeFi strategies. With Enso's infrastructure, they rapidly built advanced features like neural network routing and multi-step yield farming, focusing on their AI capabilities rather than protocol integrations.
The momentum doesn’t need to stop there. For example, Virtuals Protocol’s tokenized AI agents could leverage Enso’s infrastructure to handle the operational complexity of multi-protocol actions, allowing creators to focus on innovation rather than execution.
The Future of AI-Powered DeFi
As AI agents evolve, the demand for onchain execution will only grow. AI teams face a clear choice: spend months building custom blockchain integrations or use Enso to accelerate development and concentrate on delivering value.
The results speak for themselves. From trading bots operating across DeFi ecosystems to treasury systems automating onchain operations, Enso enables the future of AI-driven blockchain innovation.
Ready to Build Onchain AI?
Whether you’re creating AI trading systems, conversational DeFi interfaces, or entirely new AI-driven tools, Enso’s shortcuts let you focus on your AI’s intelligence—not its infrastructure.
Curious about what’s possible when AI meets blockchain? Check out our docs to explore Enso’s shortcuts and join the growing list of AI teams building the future of onchain finance.