The Agentic Economy

Advancements in AI have made it possible for products to be built with more efficient development processes, tailored user experiences, and faster adaptation to market demands. AI smart agents lower the costs and barriers to entry that creators face today. Instead of centralized tech companies that employ many humans with high overhead, products can be created and delivered through onchain agentic protocols.

Talus is building the infrastructure for users to create and leverage performant smart agents. Working together, these agents will operate in a diverse network of high-performing sovereign entities that will result in a new economic paradigm: the agentic economy.

What is the Agentic Economy?

The agentic economy is a vision of a future where networks of AI smart agents work together to perform tasks autonomously for users. Entrepreneurs will utilize agentic frameworks to create new, more efficient methods for collaboration, product development, and product delivery. These networks will support distributed, builder-empowered, and UX-friendly models of work.

The agentic economy may be the next evolution of software, where AI agents work together to create, maintain, and improve software applications autonomously. This shift could lead to more efficient, adaptable, and user-centric software development processes, ultimately benefiting end-users and creators alike.

Smart Agents in the Agentic Economy

Smart agents make the agentic economy possible by automating and optimizing a wide range of tasks that were traditionally slow and handled manually by humans or centralized corporations. Startups building with agentic frameworks will have a number of benefits because smart agents can operate autonomously, making decisions and executing tasks based on user intents. They will be able to learn and adjust their behavior from real-time data while communicating with other agents to make decisions. This unlocks the ability to manage complex systems or processes without continuous human involvement.

New projects in the agentic economy will also have improved economies of scale. Currently, startups must execute with speed and adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. Agents working together will allow for more responsive economic structures compared to rigid traditional corporate models that require many more employees to scale. By automating tasks and reducing the need for human labor and coordination, smart agents can lower operational costs for startups. This speeds up production and distribution of new products and reduces barriers to entry for startups and innovators, allowing smaller teams to compete with large corporations. New products that were previously incredibly difficult to scale are suddenly possible in the agentic economy.

The reasoning behind the agentic economy is rooted in the desire to create a more efficient, adaptable, and user-centric economic system. By leveraging AI and blockchain technology, the agentic economy aims to reduce the barriers to entry for creators, lower operational costs, and enable the development of highly personalized products and services. This new economic paradigm is designed to foster innovation, collaboration, and competition, ultimately leading to better outcomes for both creators and consumers.

In the agentic economy, individual customer needs will be met with high precision. Smart agents, through dynamic AI models on the backend, can quickly analyze consumer behavior, preferences, and feedback to tailor products and services to individual users. Users in the agentic economy will be able to receive products and content that are personalized to their needs and preferences.

Why Will Agentic Protocols be Onchain?

Although limited agents can be built on web2 platforms, blockchain’s openness have the power to construct agents that may exceed our imagination. At Talus, we are hyper-focused on one new AI unlock in particular: giving AI the ability to transfer value autonomously. By operating on a common data substrate, smart agents can manage wallets, handle digital assets, and communicate with one another in ways that were impossible on web2 rails.

Much of web2 has trended toward walled gardens, where there is a lack of both infrastructure and incentives for people to collaborate between their respective products. The agentic economy can provide both the incentives and the means for teams across the web to collaborate and combine products, from value transfer in DeFi to entertainment content delivery.

Decentralized Smart Agents require decentralized models, data, compute, and liquidity. Onchain models are transparent, verifiable, accountable, and censorship-resistant. At Talus, we believe that clear ownership and digital tangibility are key to a healthy AI industry, and that’s exactly the future we’re enabling.

The Future of Building

Founders and creators will have new areas of focus in an agentic economy. In a traditional tech company, social coordination between teams and employees is one of the greatest challenges and it can all be automated with smart agents. The Talus Agentic Framework is a decentralized and autonomous system for creating and executing tasks using agents. By leveraging Sui Move contracts and off-chain oracles, the framework enables seamless interaction between agents to accomplish predefined goals. Furthermore, combining agents, datasets, and specialized models in coordinated entities, will accelerate the advancement and value proposition of agentic frameworks to a whole new level.

Here’s what this may look like for future builders and creators. A founder wants to create an automated index fund protocol that will identify the best arbitrage opportunities onchain to make their users money. She decides that instead of instituting and scaling a traditional tech company, she wants to build an agentic framework on Talus to achieve this goal. Think of an agent as a member of a team, with specific skills and a particular job to do, each contributing to the overall goal.

This is what it will look like:

1. The founder identifies the necessary steps in creating the protocol, including going to market, development, testing, design, marketing, etc.
2. She selects specialized smart agents from the marketplace in Talus to handle each step: financial agents to find the best trades, developer agents for coding, testing agents for quality assurance, design agents for UI/UX, and marketing agents for promotion.
3. Then she uses the Talus Agentic Framework to empower the agents with tools and function calls as smart contracts for them to be composable with DeFi applications and other agents. She also provides them with liquidity for expenses like computing and other AI operations.
4. The agents operate, coordinate, and improve as a unit, just like a traditional tech startup, to accomplish the objective of building and operating the protocol.
5. Once the protocol is live, the agents that compose it prompt themselves to look for trading opportunities within multiple DeFi protocols that it is connected to. Without much human intervention, the Talus agents complete a project that users can leverage to earn yield autonomously.

By leveraging the Talus agentic framework, founders can build innovative protocols more efficiently and cost-effectively, paving the way for the future of decentralized economies. This approach not only enhances the development process but also ensures that the end products are robust, scalable, and user-friendly.

In the agentic framework, the founder can also set up incentive structures and governance mechanisms to ensure that the agents work together effectively and align with the overall goals of the protocol. For example, the founder can implement a reward system that incentivizes agents to optimize their performance and collaborate with other agents. Additionally, the founder can establish governance rules that allow for democratic decision-making and dispute resolution among the agents. By carefully designing these incentive structures and governance mechanisms, the founder can create a self-sustaining and self-improving agentic framework that continues to evolve and adapt to changing market conditions while ensuring that the interests of the users are always prioritized.

Summary

Both blockchain technology and AI allow many tasks that currently require great amounts of capital and increased levels of social coordination to be automated. Combining blockchains and AI opens the door for onchain AI smart agents and, thus, an agentic economy in which work is achieved and delivered to users faster and cheaper. The benefits of AI in boosting human productivity by orders of magnitude are readily apparent, but combining AI with blockchain technology simplifies the massive social coordination needed in web2 to make the benefits of AI accessible to users. Talus is working to create infrastructure to make the agentic economy possible.