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Get Started with DeFAI Published on Jan 10, 2025 View in Browser gm Bankless Nation, AI agents want to make DeFi easier to use and abstract away the complexity; do we trust them? Today's Issue ⬇️ ☀️ Need to Know: World's 10 Million Worldcoin hits a big milestone. 📊 Market Vibes: Good News Meltdown Wall Street panics as hiring surges. 🗣️ Analysis: Get Started with DeFAI Unpacking the latest buzzy AI sector. Sponsor: Uniswap Labs — Uniswap Labs launched a $15.5 million bug bounty to help secure V4. Learn More .  .  . NEED TO KNOW World Hits 10 Million 👁️ World Surpasses 10 Million Human Verifications. World, formerly Worldcoin, has surpassed a major progress milestone. 👜 U.S. Finance Regulator Goes After Crypto Wallet Providers. Biden admin regulators go after MetaMask and other wallet providers. 🇬🇧 UK Creates Crypto Staking Regulatory Carveout. Crypto asset staking providers set to win big with proposed amendment. .  .  . MARKET VIBES Good News Meltdown 📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Despite a brutal day on Wall Street caused by better-than-expected jobs numbers showing a tough path forward for rate cuts, crypto markets trended subtly upward after days of downward price action which took BTC and ETH near monthly lows. Prices as of 5pm ET 24hr 7d Crypto $3.30T ↗ 2.8% ↘ 5.7% BTC $94,795 ↗ 3.1% ↘ 3.8% ETH $3,264 ↗ 1.8% ↘ 9.8% .  .  . ANALYSIS DeFAI: Top Projects Tackling AI Agents + DeFi Bankless Author: Kazu Umemoto Last month, we released our list of the top AI agent infrastructure plays and tokens, but hype surrounding this sector has led to builders quickly innovating on new ideas since then. Onchain agents have evolved from posting tweets to 'running' investment DAOs, and now developers are creating entire applications that leverage these AI agents in navigating DeFi.  While most of these projects have launched fairly recently, the buzz is building for the sector, and many think there could be huge waves in the DeFAI space soon. Here are our top DeFAI plays and tokens that we’re watching at Bankless👇  Read on Bankless.com FRIEND & SPONSOR: UNISWAP Uniswap Labs is offering the largest bug bounty ever: $15.5M for critical bugs in Uniswap v4! Built with community contributions and rigorously audited, v4 will be one of the most audited codebases ever to be deployed onchain, and continues Uniswap’s commitment to security. Learn More Manage your account Not financial or tax advice. Bankless content is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This newsletter is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time to time, we may add links in this newsletter to products we use. We may receive a commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless team holds crypto assets. See our Investment Disclosures | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy Bankless © 2025 – Unsubscribe