SynFutures’ entry into AI Agents: DeFAI’s development direction

Author: NingNing

It will not be those "CA engineers" with wild acting skills who can revive the AI ​​Agent track, but down-to-earth "product engineers".

In the storm of market sentiments such as quarrels, rights protection, and confession caused by the collective overturn of the PVP leaders on the chain and the record-breaking scale of losses (cuts) of the altcoin chain, the AI ​​Agent sub-track DeFAI is following the footsteps of the recent chain abstraction track, quietly moving from the stage of outputting narratives to seize the market mindset to the stage of competing for users through product strength.

As the No. 1 perpetual contract DEX on Base, SynFutures today announced the launch of its AI Agent, ALL IN DeFAI, this round of paradigm innovation.

From the NFT perpetual contract niche market on the Ethereum mainnet to embracing the Blast ecosystem, migrating to the Base ecosystem, and then to ALL IN DeFAI, this is the third time in the history of the SynFutures team that it has actively broken its comfort zone to seek self-breakthrough.

We know that the traditional DEX transaction process is cumbersome. Users need to open the Dapp, connect the wallet, approve the authorization, and confirm the transaction. Each step is a potential loss point.

SynFutures' DeFAI product did not choose to copy the chat room UX adopted by the current blue chip DeFAI, but let the transaction return to the most familiar environment for users - Twitter. Use natural language to send a message to the AI ​​Agent "Buy ETH with 20% of the funds", and the transaction is completed.

This innovation in experience will greatly reduce the threshold for using DeFAI. More importantly, by embedding the Twitter ecosystem, it combines transactions with social interactions.

For example:

• See an analyst publish a bullish view, directly copy his transaction in the comment area

• Bet with a friend on the trend of a certain token, and the contract can be completed directly in the conversation

• Every trading suggestion of the KOL becomes an executable smart contract

There are several main types of DeFAI AI Agents on the market:

• All-round Agents represented by HeyAnon, providing a full range of DeFi services

• DEX trading Agents represented by Bankr, focusing on token trading

• The autonomous trading agent represented by Kudai is a trader itself

• The functional agent represented by Simulacrum focuses on specific scenarios

SynFutures has chosen a differentiated path, focusing on making perpetual contract trading the best it can be. For SynFutures, this strategy has several significant advantages:

• Hit the pain point: perpetual contract trading is highly professional, and the value of lowering the threshold through AI is the greatest

• Clear monetization: transaction fees are the most direct source of income

• Deep moat: backed by its own mature PerpDEX infrastructure, it is not simply replicable

It is worth noting that SynFutures' Agent will only open spot trading in the first phase, and then gradually introduce advanced functions such as leverage and stop loss, and finally realize cross-chain trading capabilities.

This strategy can not only ensure the stability of user product experience, but also continue to maintain market popularity. Every functional upgrade is a new marketing hotspot.

SynFutures' DeFAI attempt also verified my previous point of view that the product form of AI Agent is more suitable as an embedded service middleware, which helps to return the transaction experience to the simplicity and intuitiveness of Web2.

Griffain and Buzz's chat room UX paradigm is not friendly enough to non-Degen players, and the efficiency of intent expression is also low.

In the future, AI Agent will be deeply coupled with chain abstraction to form the intent solver layer that links users and complex smart contracts.