Web3 adoption stalled because users had to fend for themselves. Agents can remove that friction, but without an agent native protocol for identity and delegation retail adoption still cannot scale.
For years the default answer in Web3 was that adoption would come once wallets and dApps had better UX. That was only half the story. UX never improved because users had to hold all permissions. There was no safe way to delegate actions. The agentic layer changes this completely. Agents are the UX now because they convert attention into intent and intent into action across accounts and services. What is missing is an open agent native security protocol that lets them act safely on a user’s behalf.
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