AI platforms Magic Newton, Sentient Chat expand onchain use cases for Agglayer users
Polygon Weekly Overview - May 23, 2025
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Agglayer Spotlight
🟪What happened: Magic Newton, a verifiable AI automation layer for onchain finance, has seen rising activity and volume on its platform after just two weeks since releasing its first verifiable agent. This coincides with the AI search platform Sentient Chat reaching 1 million queries answered on its community-owned artificial general intelligence platform.
🟪Why does it matter: AI has captured the mindshare of many individuals, industries and markets, including crypto. The hype led to the launch of many projects and memecoins, however as the markets settle and the dust clears, innovators and long term projects have kept building.
Wallets on Magic Newton’s platform have processed over $563,000 in outgoing volume with 43,026 swaps done, according to Dune Analytics data. This indicates the platform is seeing strong user engagement in DeFi especially in its autopilot agents which have processed over $825,000 in volume.
The platform's ability to automate and delegate portfolio and wallet management to AI agents can help individuals build creative strategies without technical expertise. This ultimately lowers the barrier to entry for crypto trading and active portfolio management.
Polygon Lab’s Senior Growth Marketing Manager Diana Chimes said on X a major use case for the product is dollar cost averaging (DCA) or automated investment schedules. She wrote that she buys bitcoin and ether on Coinbase biweekly, but pays $8 in fees monthly to the exchange.
Chimes added she set up a weekly buy through Magic Newtons “buy agent” and it has lowered her fees and cost to $0.05 per trade. This could lower the potential annual fee about 95% from around $96 to roughly $5, she noted.
Additionally, these transactions are all processed onchain and in-wallet, giving users more verifiability and sovereignty than centralized exchanges. This retail investment strategy can provide users with automated investments at lower costs with more control and visibility over funds.
On a separate note, Sentient AGI is taking a broader approach to the AI market in blockchain. Sentient Chat provides users access to vertical agents with a focus on "Loyal AI" that's “community-built, community-aligned, and community-owned.”
Sentient aims to be a platform where individuals can launch their AI products, monetize and secure them through blockchain infrastructure. This platform allows developers to use a variety of open-source tools and frameworks to create agents, search frameworks, and model fingerprinting capabilities for security and verifiability.
The platform's achievement of surpassing 1 million queries while still in closed beta shows strong demand for decentralized AI inference. As they open the protocol to more users, the network will continue to focus on having an open, monetizable, and secure framework, according to Sentient Co-Founder Himanshu Tyagi, who discussed this in a recent X Space.
🟪The big picture: Agglayer's unified liquidity, users and state layer is designed to provide an ecosystem and foundation for these AI protocols to interact in the future. Agents on these platforms will look to access shared liquidity pools, data resources and services across the entire ecosystem, breaking down traditional silos between individual chains.
The onchain nature of this infrastructure ensures verifiability and immutable tracking of all AI activity, from data usage to agent transactions. This transparency builds trust, while still maintaining decentralization in AI. This unified approach reduces fragmentation and amplifies the network effects that make these AI applications so powerful.
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