SODAX Bets DeFi's Next Users are AI Agents, Not People

The next generation of DeFi users is unlikely to open a wallet. They are unlikely to compare slippage across DEXs, hunt for the cheapest bridge, or sign a transaction one chain at a time. They are also unlikely to be human.

That’s the bet SODAX, a cross-network DeFi execution stack, is making. And it is a bet that increasingly mirrors where the rest of the industry is moving, an architecture in which AI agents, not retail clickers, drive on-chain activity.

More than a decade of DeFi product design presumes that a person is at the keyboard. Wallet pop-ups, slippage settings, network selection, and signing prompts are pain points that users have learned to endure.

Meanwhile, agents skip the steps. They state goals, such as “buy this token” or "rebalance this portfolio," and execute them programmatically on the best available venue. Most existing DeFi infrastructure was built for people. SODAX argues that the protocols that win the next cycle will be the ones built for agents.

"You cannot build for the agent era while still designing for the click era," says Min Kim, founder and CEO of SODAX.

Intent-Based Execution

SODAX's answer is an intent-based execution stack across 18+ networks. Developers and their users describe what they want done, and a Solver figures out the path. The agent (user) does not need to reason about routing or pick a chain.

What makes the architecture relevant for agents specifically is the SODAX Builder MCP, a server that exposes the execution system’s SDK through the Model Context Protocol standard. Any MCP-compatible agent, whether it runs inside Claude, Cursor, Openclaw, or another compatible environment, can plug in through a single endpoint and immediately query token swaps, lending market rates, solver activity, intent histories, and live SDK documentation across the supported networks. There is no per-network integration to maintain.

The model also keeps self-custody intact. Rather than handing keys to an agent, a user issues it a narrow, time-limited mandate to act for a specific purpose, which the user can revoke at any time. Custody never leaves the user; only the right to execute a defined task does.

"Hold your own keys. Delegate your own intent," explains Kim.

Amped Finance, a SODAX integration partner, already has agents in production via the Openclaw framework, managing yield, rebalancing capital, and executing across networks based on user-defined goals without a human signing each transaction.

Upcoming Upgrade

The agent-facing piece is ready, but there’s still work to be done on the developer side.

SDK v2, slated for Q2 2026, is a refactor of SODAX's existing SDK with the goal of making it legible to large language models, so that a developer using an AI coding assistant can integrate SODAX without manual hand-holding.

"Anyone, even a non-developer, on V2 will be able to go, hey, I want to build a swap site, here's the SDK, do this, this, this, and the LLM will be able to get everything it needs," notes Fez Mubaraki of SODAX.

A parallel Agent Readiness initiative is moving on a faster timeline. It covers three parallel tracks: making SODAX endpoints discoverable to agents, serving content in markdown when an agent requests it and rewriting the project's dynamic llms.txt.

Once complete, SODAX will offer an execution system that agents can already use, and a developer surface frictionless enough that the agents being built on top of it can ship at the same speed.

Rapid Evolution

The agentic commerce stack is being assembled in public. In the past three months alone, Visa rolled out its Intelligent Commerce platform globally for AI agent purchases, Circle launched Nanopayments on testnet for sub-cent USDC transactions between agents, and the Ethereum Foundation stood up a dedicated dAI Team to position the network as the settlement layer for the machine economy.

Most of that activity is concentrated on the payments and identity layers. SODAX's argument is that execution, where intent actually becomes a transaction across multiple networks, is the part of the stack that has received the least attention and is the one most likely to bottleneck the architecture if not addressed.

"The agent era is a test of whether we actually built infrastructure, or whether we built very complicated click-through interfaces," says Kim.

SODAX is presenting at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 5. The company is not claiming the agent shift has already happened. Instead, it believes that the systems engineered for that handoff today will be the ones still thriving when it lands at scale, while the ones planning to bolt on agent compatibility after the fact will struggle to do so.

The company's SODA token, which was recently migrated from its legacy project ICX, is due to list on Kraken in May 2026.