AI Companion for DeFi: Discover Shinkai

Introduction: The Challenge of Seizing Opportunities in DeFi

In the fast-paced world of DeFi, opportunity comes in brief windows, and timing is everything. It's not just about speed—it's about having the right information at the right time to recognize opportunities as they arise.

Success in DeFi is often driven by:

Timing: Recognizing favorable moments can make all the difference, but without up-to-date insights, opportunities may slip by unnoticed.
Informed Analysis: Rushed decisions often come from limited access to market data and analysis. Gathering and analyzing information can be time-consuming, and most users don’t have hours to research in fast-paced markets.
Data Control: Sharing financial data across multiple platforms can feel risky –we don’t need/want to share sensible information with third parties. Keeping control of our information while staying informed is key to navigating DeFi securely.

Traditional AI systems, which rely on static datasets, often miss out on real-time opportunities or fail to provide accurate, up-to-the-minute insights. Enter Shinkai—a fully decentralized, local AI solution, designed to unlock DeFi's full potential by giving you control over real-time data while keeping your information secure.

Shinkai: Enabling Real-Time Insights for Smarter Decisions

Shinkai doesn’t just process data locally—it keeps you ahead of market trends by tapping into a decentralized network of agents that are up-to-date with the latest. Whether you’re monitoring token prices, tracking trends, or analyzing yield opportunities, Shinkai delivers relevant insights to help you act when the time is right.

Why Shinkai Makes a Difference:

Shinkai is all about giving you control—offering real-time data insights and automations without compromising your information. It’s more than just another AI tool; it’s your personal assistant, running securely on your device and empowering you to make smarter, timely decisions in DeFi:

Real-Time Market Analysis: Shinkai’s decentralized network allows users to access live market data. For example, a user can set up an AI agent to monitor Ethereum price changes, alerting them as soon as predefined conditions are met, making decisions more informed and less reactive.
Data Under Your Control: Running locally on your device, Shinkai ensures that sensitive information stays with you, securely processed without exposing your data to external servers.

Shinkai Smart Contracts

Why Shinkai is a Game Changer for DeFi Users and Developers

Shinkai doesn’t just offer better AI—it provides the tools to optimize, and customize your entire DeFi workflow. With Shinkai you can:

Integrate your local AI with external AI Agents: Create AI agents that connect to a decentralized network to interact with other agents via micropayments using crypto.
Interaction with Smart Contracts: Shinkai integrates seamlessly with DeFi platforms, allowing users to manage smart contracts, initiate secure transactions, and stake assets. (e.g., Coinbase MPC Wallet)
Customize agents to have access to tools like navigating the web to perform actions or getting information, keeping you updated of real-time market tracking.
Portfolio Management Companion: Managing a crypto portfolio across multiple platforms can be tedious. Shinkai simplifies this by tracking assets and optimizing APYs, while the control of action remains completely on the user.

There are hundreds of tools you can choose from to set up your AI assistant.

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One of Shinkai's main goals is to enable users, in the short term, to create their own UIs for interacting with protocols (like for visualizing or using DeFi protocols). Users can also monetize these UIs by selling them through an AI AppStore.

Coinbase’s Co-founder & CEO, Brian Armstrong, tweeting about Shinkai.

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Open-Source Customization: Shinkai for Developers

Shinkai offers developers a powerful open-source toolkit that simplifies the creation of AI agents tailored for decentralized finance (DeFi) and other blockchain applications. Whether building tools for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), integrating with decentralized exchanges (DEXs), or automating governance processes, Shinkai allows full customization to meet specific use cases.

If you want to learn more about the project, or contribute to the open source, here are the links to our repositories and documentation:

Github Shinkai-apps: This allows you to locally run the node and also easily manage AI models using Ollama.
Github Shinkai-node: This allows you to set up the node anywhere as the central unit of the Shinkai Network, handling tasks such as agent management, job processing, and secure communications.
Mutable.ai: More In Depth Codebase Documentation.

Here’s how to connect Shinkai to Visual Code:

Getting Started with Shinkai: A Quick Setup Guide

Integrating Shinkai into your DeFi workflow is simple and secure:

1. Install Shinkai Desktop: Set up Shinkai directly on your device in just a few clicks. The app acts as the core component, enabling secure, decentralized execution of AI agents.

- Download Shinkai for free (available for Mac, Windows, and Linux) and follow the instructions for installation.

Download Shinkai for Free –Available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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2. Install your Local AI (Models): Once you start Shinkai, you will be prompted to install an AI model. For lightweight, fast AI needs (short conversations, basic text generation): Go with Gemma2 2b or LLaVA Phi 3. For handling large documents and complex reasoning: Opt for Mistral Nemo 12b, but keep in mind it will require more resources and be slower. Llama 3.1b offers a good balance between complexity and speed.

Choose the AI model you’d like to install.
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3. Try out Shinkai Tools: On the left side menu you will find the Shinkai Tools option, where you can find workflows that allow you to fetch balances of an Ethereum address, get the default address of a Coinbase wallet –or even create one– among many others.For example, you can perform searches in Perplexity or look for info on DefiLlama.

What’s Next: The Future of AI and DeFi with Shinkai

Shinkai is in continuous development, with weekly updates bringing new features and capabilities. As the ecosystem expands, expect even more automation features, enhanced integrations with DeFi protocols, and deeper privacy protections. We look forward to get more feedback from users to keep improving the product. We invite you to test Shinkai and share your feedback on our Discord.