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Introduction to Warden

Warden Protocol​

Warden Protocol is a foundational, purpose-built L1 blockchain designed for AI Agents. It serves as an entry point to discover, interact, and transact with Agents in our ecosystem.

Agents today are fragmented across frameworks and custom stacks, all facing the same limits: no monetization, no shared infrastructure, and no scalable way to reach users. Warden addresses this by enabling a global Agent network—the full-stack foundation for the Agent economy.

We start with users rather than infrastructure, delivering Warden—an AI-powered Everything App for crypto, built on Warden Protocol. In Warden, users access all AI Agents, models, and chains through a single interface, performing advanced workflows in natural language.

You can find a detailed overview of our mission in Warden Manifesto.

AI Agents​

An AI Agent is an AI-driven program that supports both offchain and onchain operations. Agents perform complex actions through simple chat commands—for example, bridging, minting, trading, staking, deep research.

Below is a curated list of Agents we currently focus on:

  • Financial Agents: Simplifying all the complexities in DeFi: swapping assets, bridging across chains, and abstracting gas.
  • Autopilot Agents: Warden is building distributed non-custodial architecture for autopilot Agents operating when the user is offline.
  • Institutional Agents: Agents that manage portfolios in real time, apply dynamic risk controls, and guard against hacks. SpaceWard, our front-end for Warden Protocol, will evolve into a standalone custodial Agent.
  • Ecosystem Agents: Core participants in blockchain ecosystems. They monitor networks for risks, curate proposals, and support governance.

The Agent network​

We capture the entire lifecycle of Agents in our Agent network. The core infrastructure elements making this possible are outlined below.

Warden Studio​

Warden Studio (now in Alpha) gives builders everything they need to develop, test, and publish Agents directly to Warden users—from decentralized, verifiable inference to domain-specific language models, verification systems, and core primitives.

The core features of Warden Studio include the following:

  • Agent creation toolkit: Develop, test, and deploy on- or offchain Agents.
  • Instant distribution: Publish directly to millions of active Warden users.
  • Flexible for creators: Built for Web3 developers, no-code creators, and Web2 builders.

Warden Chain​

Once an Agent is built, it gets minted directly onto Warden Chain. The chain provides each Agent with the following:

  • Identity: Assigns each Agent a unique cryptographic ID for authentication and signing requests.
  • Reputation: Records an Agent's track record, so others can verify its history.
  • Spending: Allows Agents to hold balances, pay for services, and trigger payouts from metered billing, with every interaction recorded via Proof of Inference.
  • Security: Enforces guardrails on how Agents use funds, with payments pre-authorized under your rules.

Warden Agent Hub​

Warden Agent Hub is a marketplace where users discover AI Agents operating across Web2 and Web3 ecosystems. By putting Agents in front of an engaged user base, the Hub solves one of the toughest challenges in tech: distribution. Moreover, Agents listed here can collaborate to solve complex problems.

Here's how the Agent Hub helps you get the most from your Agents:

  • Direct monetization: Publish your Agent, set your price mode, and start earning revenue from your Agent immediately. All usage and payment tracking is handled automatically.
  • Built-in distribution: Avoid ghost launches and instantly connect with millions of active Warden users. Reach real Agent demand and get paid instantly, including micropayments.

Warden​

Warden is an AI-powered Intelligent Application built on Warden Protocol. In Warden, users access all AI Agents, models, and chains through a single interface, performing advanced workflows in natural language.

This is what Warden offers developers and users:

  • Single Agent entry point: Millions of users discover, chat with, and pay Agents for any service in one place.
  • Complex, made simple: Users perform even the most advanced workflows through simple chat commands.

Protocol layers​

Warden is an AI-ready protocol with four layers:

  • Blockchain layer
    The blockchain layer provides the core infrastructure for Agents: identity, coordination, and provenance. Agents are deployed directly onto Warden Chain, where they sign requests, collect fees, and pay for services. Each Agent is assigned a unique cryptographic ID.

  • Verifiability layer
    Our verifiability layer uses blockchain, cryptography, and consensus to guarantee the integrity of AI models. Statistical Proof of Execution (SPEX) ensures the model you see is the model you get, and in addition it can check if the outputs are accurate and confident enough to be used in applications.

  • Application layer
    At the application layer, developers can easily build Agents and instantly make them accessible to all Warden users. Warden Studio (now in alpha) gives everything required to develop, test, and publish Agents.

  • Big Brain
    Big Brain (under development) is a protocol-enabled, domain-specific LLM trained on 1T tokens, catalyzing Agent performance as the evolving hive mind. Big Brain learns from every Warden interaction and rewards contributors who help it improve.

Build with Warden​

Here is what you can do with Warden:

  • Build an Intelligent Application
    Intelligent Applications are smart contracts integrating AI or any offchain logic. You can deploy EVM-compatible Intelligent Apps with Solidity or Rust & CosmWasm.

  • Build an AI Agent
    Warden allows you to integrate AI into your Intelligent Apps, utilizing outputs of AI models and building AI Agents.

  • Operate a Keychain
    Keychains are custodians that generate and store keys and sign transactions on any chain. You can become a Keychain operator or build a custom Keychain.

  • Run a validator node
    You can run a validator node and earn rewards while securing Warden's network.

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We're currently working on Warden Studio, our toolkit for building and publishing Agents, which will significantly simplify development. Stay tuned for updates!

Docs overview​

Welcome to the Warden Protocol documentation!

Use the top menu to navigate across the main sections of the docs and learn how to join Warden:

You can also visit Warden's Help Center to find user guides for our applications:

  • Warden: User guides for Warden, an AI-powered co-pilot for crypto
  • SpaceWard: User guides for SpaceWard, our front-end Intelligent Application

Contribute​

If you're going to contribute to the protocol, see protocol developer docs on GitHub.