Key Takeaways
- Hedera launched an Agent Kit SDK at ETHDenver 2025, offering $25,000 in bounties for AI agent projects.
- Olas facilitated over 4 million agent transactions and launched Pearl, with a $1 million rewards program for developers.
The future of blockchain just got a bit sharper—and dare I say, a touch more agentic—at ETHDenver 2025.
Two heavyweights in the web3 space, Hedera and Olas, rolled up to the event with their AI agent solutions, highlighting different approaches to how AI could transform Web3.
Hedera: Making blockchain as easy as a GM tweet
Jake Hall, Hedera’s developer relations lead, kicked things off by pointing out the obvious: Web3’s user experience is still a mess.
“All of us here have probably got past our first wallet,” he said, “but I think 99% of the population haven’t quite.”
With Hedera’s Agent Kit SDK, Hall showed how you can whip up tokens, drop airdrops like a pro, and check balances—all by typing simple, natural language prompts. No need to flex your Solidity chops or wrestle with gas fees.
“AI agents… basically use large language models alongside tools or actions, which are deterministic pieces of code that an AI agent understands,” he explained.
In other words, it’s blockchain for the rest of us—less “wtf” and more “gm.”
Hedera is incentivizing development with $25,000 in bounties for AI agent projects, with $15K for the top dog.
Olas: Agents hustling like DeFi degens
Minarsch’s presentation on Olas took a different angle, focusing on multi-agent systems and economies.
“What always was the case since [2019] is that agents could hold wallets. And that together with the large language models, in my opinion, the two big unlocks that we had in recent years,” he stated.
Olas has created what Minarsch describes as “the largest AI agent economy in crypto” with over 4 million agent transactions, including 2 million between agents.
He highlighted that “OLAS has now done over 50% of all Safe transactions ever on GNOSIS chain, which is kind of nuts if you think about it.”
Minarsch distinguished between “swarms” of cooperative specialized agents and broader agent economies with competitive elements:
“In an AI agent economy, we’re really introducing this element of competition and sort of trading between these entities… much more focus on these being like independent economic actors that might have opposing or aligned objectives.”
Real-world vibes and tech talk
Both projects are already out in the wild with real use cases, with Hedera focusing on improved user interfaces and Olas showcasing prediction markets where specialized agents create markets, resolve outcomes, and trade positions.
On the tech side, Minarsch kept it real about generative AI hype:
“We’re not at a stage yet where you have reliable agents that are fully based on generative model-based architecture. So if you want anything working reliably in production, then you need a set of rules on top.”
Translation: don’t ape in too hard—these agents need guardrails.
Olas is currently running an accelerator program with over $1 million in rewards for developers building valuable agent use cases, and has launched Pearl, a no-code application for end users to run agents without technical expertise.
