Valory's decentralized AI agents aim to bring transparency and control to DeFi investors

Valory's decentralized AI agents aim to bring transparency and control to DeFi investors originally appeared on TheStreet.

AI agents are quickly becoming integral to how businesses manage portfolios, automate workflows, and navigate digital markets. But most of today’s tools—from ChatGPT to private analytics stacks—leave users exposed to platform risks, hidden logic, and limited control.

Valory, a Zurich-based company, is the core contributor to the Olas protocol. This protocol coordinates and incentivizes different parties to launch AI Agents that are open-source and owned by everyone. These AI agents are fully autonomous and can accomplish several different tasks for users, including participating in prediction markets, managing assets, and even creating content for social media platforms.

“We launched Olas so that people could truly own their AI,” said David Minarsch, CEO of Valory. “That means owning the models, the logic, and the economics.

Why this matters for investors

Consumers can visit an agent app store, called 'Pearl,' where anyone with a computer can run and own multiple AI agents easily. The 'Mech Marketplace' serves businesses who are looking to offer their AI agents for hire and hire other AI agents for their needs.

The agents, licensed under Apache 2.0, can be customized or reused for various use cases. Valory supports integration with a wide range of infrastructure and protocols — including Uniswap.

Security is still a top priority for institutions exploring on-chain automation. Olas AI Agents operate through Safe wallets, combining programmable execution with embedded risk controls. Portfolio and transaction caps are hardcoded to limit exposure—mitigating the risk of rogue trades or over-allocation without undermining autonomy.

These safeguards don’t constrain the agent’s logic but instead set clear boundaries for what it can execute. Users retain full control, defining both the strategies the agent can run and the specific protocols it’s authorized to access.

Users retain full custody over their funds via wallets like MetaMask or Trust Wallet. As a core contributor to Olas, Valory plans to add support for multi-party computation (MPC) wallets, which will allow splitting key access for added redundancy.

Olas stack is fully open-source and publicly audited, enabling true co-ownership of AI and hinting at the future of agents and their role in our lives.

Valory's decentralized AI agents aim to bring transparency and control to DeFi investors first appeared on TheStreet on Jul 31, 2025

This story was originally reported by TheStreet on Jul 31, 2025, where it first appeared.

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