Lately, everyone has been talking about AI agents on the blockchain doing automated work, and I'm quite tempted: automatic currency swapping, snatching airdrops, auto rebalancing, and so on—it's convenient. But honestly, if I really let it run freely, I still think there are some parts that must be backed by human oversight.



The biggest concern is permissions and signatures—giving unlimited authorization, and since the contract is a new thing, even a smart agent could be lured into a phishing page; there are also cross-chain transfers, parameter changes, revoking permissions—these are "irreversible/difficult to recover" actions, and I prefer to click them myself. Seeing large transfers on-chain or hot and cold wallets at exchanges being interpreted as smart money, if the agent also follows the market sentiment and chases orders, it’s more like automatically adding fuel to the fire, turning into an automatic explosion...

Now I prefer to let it act as an "executor," while humans serve as "gatekeepers": only giving small amounts, whitelisted contracts, fixed slippage, and specific time periods. Next, I might add a habit: manually revoke permissions once a week and review what it has clicked on. Do you let your agent hold main wallet permissions, or do you prefer to use isolated wallets?
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