Enter Shade Agents, Built on NEAR

Shade Agents are AI-powered smart contracts running across multiple blockchains, ensuring security, privacy, and full verifiability. Unlike traditional AI agents, Shade Agents eliminate single points of failure, allowing for truly autonomous decision-making with decentralized security measures.

What Sets Shade Agents Apart?

Shade Agents leverage NEAR’s Chain Signatures for decentralized key management and operate within Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to securely access off-chain data. This combination ensures both privacy and security in AI-driven decision-making.

The architecture consists of two key components:

• Worker Agents: Off-chain AI-powered entities that access data, communicate with LLMs, and propose blockchain transactions.
• Smart Contracts: On-chain components that verify worker agents and enable collective key control across multiple chains.

Why This Matters

This innovative structure enables AI agents to:

• Sign and manage crypto assets across various blockchains
• Execute complex financial workflows autonomously
• Access off-chain data while preserving privacy
• Operate without the risks of centralized key loss or control

For developers, Shade Agents introduce AI intelligence into applications and protocols without manual intervention. For users, they provide secure, trustless automation, managing portfolios, optimizing yields, and executing financial tasks with unprecedented efficiency.

How Shade Agents Work

Each Shade Agent comprises a worker agent and a smart contract:

• Worker Agent Verification: Verified off-chain, worker agents interact with data sources, query AI models, and propose transactions on multiple blockchains.
• Smart Contract Validation: The smart contract verifies the worker agent by checking its TEE signatures against a predefined code hash.
• Decentralized Control: Once registered, multiple worker agents can collectively manage blockchain transactions via Chain Signatures.
• Continuous Upgrades: DAOs can govern and upgrade worker agent AI models and off-chain computational processes.

The Future of AI-Driven Automation

With Shade Agents, AI automation is no longer centralized or vulnerable to security breaches. Instead, it’s decentralized, private, and fully verifiable on-chain. This breakthrough has far-reaching implications:

• DeFi applications can use Shade Agents to manage assets, optimize trading strategies, and execute transactions trustlessly.
• Social and Web3 applications can integrate AI-driven automation while ensuring privacy and verification.
• Enterprise and Web2 services can leverage AI without exposing sensitive data to centralized intermediaries.

A Smarter, Decentralized Future

Autonomous AI is set to redefine software and business operations. By combining AI intelligence with decentralized security, Shade Agents unlock a future where AI manages portfolios, optimizes yields, and runs businesses—securely and autonomously. The future of software isn’t just intelligent; it’s decentralized.

The future is NEAR. Embrace it with Nightly.