ai agents are about to start trading real money on-chain. the infrastructure isn't ready for that.

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This is exactly the right framing and nobody's talking about it clearly enough. I'm building DepegGuard — an AI agent that monitors stablecoin peg health and fires HEDGE/EXIT signals when deviation thresholds are crossed. Simple enough concept. But even at that level, the infrastructure problems you're describing show up immediately. The agent can detect a depeg signal. It can decide to act. But the moment it tries to execute — rotate out of a depegging stablecoin, rebalance into a safer asset — it's at the mercy of exactly the venues you're describing. AMMs with baked-in MEV, opaque matching, no verifiable proof of fair execution. So the signal layer is becoming solid. The decision layer is getting there. The execution layer is still a minefield for autonomous participants. On your question about timeline — yes, meaningful volume in 1-2 years is realistic. The infrastructure that needs to exist before that: verifiable execution venues, on-chain proof of fill fairness, MEV-resistant routing that agents can verify programmatically rather than trust. Casper's architecture is interesting here — WebAssembly native, execution is deterministic and verifiable by design. We deployed our signal logger there partly for that reason. But it's one piece. The honest answer is the infrastructure gap is 12-18 months behind where the agent narrative is heading. Which means the first agents trading real capital at scale are going to get extracted from badly before the rails catch up."