Morning Minute: MetaMask Hands AI Agents a Wallet

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Today’s top news:

• Crypto majors are slightly green; BTC at $65k
• Clarity Act vote officially delayed until after August recess, 13% chance to pass
• BTC ETFs see another $138M in net inflows, now $750M+ on week
• Robinhood Chain hits new ATH in active addresses after Cashcat gets listed on Robinhood US
• New NFT mint Mancer triples on debut, token runs 11x to $8M

🦊 MetaMask Hands AI Agents a Wallet, With Guardrails and a “Beast Mode”

MetaMask launched Agent Wallet on Thursday, a self-custodial wallet that lets AI agents trade crypto on their own, within limits the user sets.

The pitch is autonomy without handing over the keys: an agent can run swaps, perps, prediction-market bets, and staking across Ethereum-compatible chains and Hyperliquid, but only after users have:

• capped its spending
• allowlisted the protocols it can touch, and
• picked a risk setting.

There are two modes users can choose from, the cautious “Guard Mode” and a fully-let-it-rip “Beast Mode.”

• Guard Mode (default): Users pre-approve the protocols and addresses the agent can touch, and anything outside those rules, or above the spending limit, pauses for 2FA sign-off before it executes
• Beast Mode: Drops the allowlist so the agent trades freely with no approval prompts, relying on real-time threat scanning as the only tripwire, though user spending caps and a malicious-transaction 2FA backstop still apply