Recently, everyone has been praising AI Agents going on-chain to automatically get work done, talking like you don’t need humans anymore… but I’m actually more nervous. When it comes to the step involving money and permissions, you still need humans as the backstop: authorization (don’t give unlimited allowances right out of the gate), signing (even if it’s just “automatically” helping with your signing confirmation), the cross-chain hop (who is actually proving the message, and how to roll back if it fails), and contract upgrade/pause switches—no matter how smart the Agent is, it can’t stop the other side from opening a fake “door” to the bridge with a single cut.

And it’s also very easy to be “fed the wrong context”—market conditions, routing, even a fake RPC. In the end, you think it’s optimizing costs, but it’s really helping someone else move bricks. The recent kind of public narratives that force ETF capital flows and US stock risk appetite together to explain why prices rise and fall is the same—everything looks logical at first glance, but the moment you dig into the details, it’s full of holes. Anyway, my current habit is: automation is fine, but don’t grant full permissions; for cross-chain, you must check the verifier; if anything goes wrong, track the transaction hash first—don’t chase trending headlines. That’s it for now.