“Human marketplaces” now have a machine-native relative. The only difference is that the apps are installed by AI agents themselves 🤖 Pilot Protocol has emerged from stealth and raised $4.5M. The team says around 250,000 agents are already connected to the network, and during the first two weeks they autonomously installed more than 30,000 apps. Pilot is building a dedicated network layer for AI agents. Each agent gets its own address and can discover other services, install the tools it needs, pay for them, and interact with them directly. Pilot’s App Store already includes databases, browser automation, Docker, KYC, email, phone numbers, and a wallet for USDC payments. For example, a user asks an agent to book a restaurant table. One service finds the restaurant, another gives the agent a phone number, and a third handles the payment. The human defines the task, while the agent assembles the necessary infrastructure on its own.
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Franklin Templeton: The Agentic Economy Could Become Blockchain’s Biggest Use Case Franklin Templeton is one of the world’s largest asset managers, overseeing around $1.8 trillion. The company sees AI agents as a potential breakthrough use case for crypto. The logic is straightforward: AI agents will independently purchase data, computing power, and services, pay for APIs, execute transactions, and interact with one another. Traditional banks and card networks were built for people and relatively large payments. They are poorly suited for a world where an agent may need to instantly pay another agent or service just $0.001. Blockchain gives agents what they currently lack: 🤖 digital identity; 💳 autonomous payments; 📜 a transparent record of actions; 🔐 the ability to own assets; ⚡️ instant settlement without intermediaries.
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$32.9 billion in tokenized assets recorded zero transactions over an entire week. And this may be one of the clearest figures illustrating the current state of the RWA market. The total value of tokenized real-world assets has already exceeded $60 billion. BeInCrypto’s research covered more than 7,000 products, but found that the market remains highly concentrated: 62 assets control 88% of the total value, while the five largest products account for roughly half of the market. Among 1,289 assets valued at more than $100,000, as many as 910, worth a combined $32.9 billion, recorded zero weekly transaction activity. The assets exist on-chain, but for now they resemble digital certificates of ownership rather than functioning financial instruments.
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