My first trading agent placed a real ETH short before I could approve it. Nothing went wrong, but nothing would have stopped it either. Four levels of financial autonomy, why a prompt is not a mandate, and why the limits on an agent have to live outside the model.
partnerships
Nava gives AI agents secure, scoped access to user wallets built on Privy. No app secrets, backends, or private keys. One browser-based OAuth flow spans CLIs, MCP servers, and skills, so agents transact autonomously within boundaries we control.
opinion
We reviewed 20+ DeFi trading agents. They've all converged on the same architecture, and the same weak spot: the risk gating step between LLM decision and onchain execution. Here's the anatomy of the gap, why prompt engineering can't close it, and what an independent execution gate looks like.
research
The gap between what you tell an agent and what it actually executes onchain is real, exploitable, and unsolved. Nava's Arbiter combines deterministic rules with semantic reasoning to verify intent-to-transaction alignment before funds move. Peer-reviewed at NDSS 2026.
research
AI agents are trading, lending, and staking with real money, unverified and unaccountable. Nava's verification layer sits between every agent decision and onchain execution, catching intent misalignment, parameter errors, and adversarial inputs before funds move. Read the full whitepaper.
partnerships
Archetype is co-leading Nava's $8.3M seed round. Their bet: that accountability infrastructure for AI agents is as critical as the agents themselves. Nava builds the verification layer that keeps onchain agents safe without limiting what makes them powerful.
opinion
As AI agents move from generating text to managing capital, the stack needs more than settlement rails. It needs verification. Nava builds the accountability layer that makes autonomous agents trustworthy enough to operate inside Ethereum's economic infrastructure.
partnerships
Verified agents need wallets. Wallet infrastructure needs verification. Nava and Privy together give you both: a complete foundation for deploying agents that can handle real capital safely, with no extra configuration needed.
News
AI agents are already moving money, unverified and unaccountable. Today, Nava comes out of stealth with $8.3M to build the verification layer the agentic economy is missing. Backed by Archetype, Polychain, FalconX, HackVC, Seed Club Ventures.