AI Startups Still Need Too Much Code 🤖
$ICP represents the programmable compute side of the AI economy, where software can operate onchain. $AAVE represents the DeFi infrastructure an autonomous agent can use once it holds a wallet and takes actions.
The market has built infrastructure for agents, but creating one still assumes the founder can code or manage engineers.
That excludes creators who understand the product, audience and business model but cannot build the software.
Launchpads solve distribution and liquidity after a token exists.
Traditional accelerators add capital and advice, while the technical build remains with the founder. So the missing layer is a place where someone can build the agent, connect its capabilities and fund development through the same system.
Bankr’s terminal is trying to put those pieces together without requiring code.
A creator can design an agent with its own wallet then install skills and connect actions into automated workflows.
Four parts of that model matter.
• Custom agents built around the creator’s idea
• Installable DeFi skills that add onchain actions
• Automated workflows connecting those actions
• Token launches where swap fees can help cover costs such as LLM inference
Bankr Fund then adds support after launch, and its latest investment was ClawBank.
The fund purchased ClawBank tokens and locked them for one year, making this the second project it has supported.
ClawBank is building the financial and corporate infrastructure agents need to operate independently.
The part I find interesting is that creation, token funding and post-launch support now sit inside the same ecosystem.
Two investments are still a small portfolio, so I am watching whether these projects keep shipping once the first wave of token attention passes.
If they become durable businesses, Bankr could start looking less like a launchpad and more like an onchain accelerator for agent founders.
#AI #DeFi
$ICP represents the programmable compute side of the AI economy, where software can operate onchain. $AAVE represents the DeFi infrastructure an autonomous agent can use once it holds a wallet and takes actions.
The market has built infrastructure for agents, but creating one still assumes the founder can code or manage engineers.
That excludes creators who understand the product, audience and business model but cannot build the software.
Launchpads solve distribution and liquidity after a token exists.
Traditional accelerators add capital and advice, while the technical build remains with the founder. So the missing layer is a place where someone can build the agent, connect its capabilities and fund development through the same system.
Bankr’s terminal is trying to put those pieces together without requiring code.
A creator can design an agent with its own wallet then install skills and connect actions into automated workflows.
Four parts of that model matter.
• Custom agents built around the creator’s idea
• Installable DeFi skills that add onchain actions
• Automated workflows connecting those actions
• Token launches where swap fees can help cover costs such as LLM inference
Bankr Fund then adds support after launch, and its latest investment was ClawBank.
The fund purchased ClawBank tokens and locked them for one year, making this the second project it has supported.
ClawBank is building the financial and corporate infrastructure agents need to operate independently.
The part I find interesting is that creation, token funding and post-launch support now sit inside the same ecosystem.
Two investments are still a small portfolio, so I am watching whether these projects keep shipping once the first wave of token attention passes.
If they become durable businesses, Bankr could start looking less like a launchpad and more like an onchain accelerator for agent founders.
#AI #DeFi
