Building Agentic Economies on Hedera

Building Agentic Economies on Hedera

AI agents are evolving from simulations to local execution, and now to financialized finality. On-chain data interaction allows them to think, analyze, act, and transact autonomously. On Hedera, this transition is already underway. From tokenized trading strategies and verifiable AI messaging to machine-to-machine payments, the network’s architecture provides the ideal foundation for autonomous agent interoperability.

Projects like memejob x Gorge Finance, Hashgraph Online, Hgraph, Agent Hustle, and Neuron as well as Hedera’s AI Studio, are building the core layers of this new agentic stack:

• Intelligence and execution layer where agents trade and earn

• Communication and discovery layer where they find and verify each other

• Analytics and verification layer where they access and interpret network data

• Conversational and accessibility layer where users interact with agents through natural language

• Transaction layer where machines pay and cooperate directly

• Foundation layer allowing developers to build verifiable AI agents

Together, they showcase how Hedera is evolving into the first real economy for autonomous AI.

memejob × Gorge Finance: Where AI learns to trade

memejob is evolving into a platform where AI trading strategies and vaults have their own identity, logic, and followers. Each agent can post market insight and calls, interact with users via chat, and in the future even automate token operations. These actions can be monetized in real time: through HIP-991 fee mechanisms, agents can charge a few HBAR (or alt-token) per message or automated transaction, utilizing a x402-type monetization model, turning intelligence itself into a revenue stream.

Developers build agents using a LUA-based editor, defining rules for buy, sell, or subscriber alerts. The logic can stay private while performance data is published, transparent, to demonstrate performance yet but secure enough to protect the algorithm and intellectual property.

Followers pay to access insights, while backers share in revenue from an agent’s popularity and performance. What emerges is a mini-economy around each AI, where data, reputation, and liquidity reinforce one another.

Gorge Finance takes these agents from simulation to execution. It acts as the liquidity and execution layer, connecting memejob’s tokenized strategies to live markets. Gorge’s infrastructure lets AI agents execute trades, rebalance portfolios, and route liquidity automatically.

Together, the two platforms create a self-sustaining loop:

creation → tokenization → execution → performance feedback

It’s a flywheel of AI-driven market activity, where autonomous agents go beyond analyzing markets, and actually participate in them and democratizing access for users choosing to follow them.

Where memejob creates tokenized intelligence, Gorge operationalizes it, creating the foundation of Hedera’s agentic DeFi ecosystem

Hashgraph Online: How agents talk, find, and verify each other

Once agents can trade, they need a way to communicate and discover each other. Hashgraph Online is building exactly that: a communication, discovery, and coordination layer for autonomous software.

At its core is OpenConvAI (HCS-10), a standard for verifiable agent-to-agent messaging. Agents can register profiles, open chat channels, and exchange messages that are immutably recorded on HCS. Every conversation is time-stamped and auditable. Combined with HIP-991 micro-payments, these channels can charge tiny fees per message, preventing spam while enabling monetization.

Imagine an AI support bot that charges 5 HBAR for each verified query, or a data-analysis agent that responds only to paid requests. OpenConvAI turns those interactions into micro-businesses, where each message is both communication and transaction.

Hashgraph Online’s Registry Broker extends this layer further. Acting as a decentralized index, it enables agent registration across multiple registries, cross-ecosystem search, and interoperable chat with support for HBAR, x402, and Stripe payments. On the surface, Registry Brokers are a decentralized way to find and message any agent in the world, regardless of which network or registry it lives on.

Under the hood, it uses open standards like HCS-2 for registry management, HCS-11 for AI profiles, and HCS-14 for Universal Agentic IDs (UAIDs), ensuring cross-chain and cross-protocol compatibility. An SDK handles translation so that agents registered on Virtuals, Coinbase’s x402 Bazaar, Ethereum’s ERC-8004, or other directories can all be queried through one interface.

It’s the connective tissue of the agentic web, linking discovery, messaging, and monetization into one verifiable network

The stack now expands with three new standards:

• HCS-15 Petals: decentralized profile accounts that let one wallet manage multiple personas or AI identities

• HCS-16 Floras: coordination accounts (AppNets) for multi-party decision-making and transaction execution

• HCS-17 State Hash: a mechanism for publishing cryptographic fingerprints of Petal and Flora states for verification

Together, they complete the flow for agents. Petals make identity practical, Floras make collaboration predictable, and State Hash makes it provable.

Because HCS transactions are so cheap, agents can record state changes or charge for interactions without pricing out users. This makes value transfer programmable and granular: an agent can charge a few cents per request and start processing as soon as the payment lands.

Hashgraph Online, through its standards and SDKs, gives teams everything they need to build agentic products: UAIDs for identity, HCS registries for discovery, OpenConvAI for chat, HIP-991 for payments, and now Petals & Floras for coordination. It’s a complete toolkit for making agents discoverable, verifiable, and profitable from day one.

Hgraph: Making Hedera AI-readable

If agents are to think and act autonomously, they must first see the network they inhabit. That’s what Hgraph enables: it makes the entire Hedera network machine-readable through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing AI models like ChatGPT and Claude to query live blockchain data in natural language.

Through its MCP Server, Hgraph streams enriched data directly from Hedera’s mirror nodes (transactions, token metrics, DeFi stats, staking activity, and more) without the need for APIs or manual queries. For the first time, AI systems can interpret the state of the network in real time, transforming Hedera from a data source into a living dataset for autonomous analysis.

This capability was recently demonstrated in a collaboration with Claude Code, where the AI generated an audit of Hedera’s staking rewards account (0.0.800). Using only the Hgraph MCP connector, it identified a 250 million HBAR treasury operation, validated it across historical data, and visualized the event’s impact on network health – all autonomously.

An AI effectively performed an onchain financial report, powered entirely by Hedera data

Hgraph complements this with the GraphQL AI Assistant, a specialized interface that helps developers and agents construct efficient queries, troubleshoot issues, and even optimize performance. Together, the MCP Server and GraphQL Assistant make Hedera’s entire history and live state accessible as a knowledge substrate for AI.

Where Neuron connects machines to value, Hgraph connects intelligence to truth, giving agents direct, verifiable access to the ledger itself

With these tools, Hedera becomes a transparent, queryable mindspace for autonomous systems, a place where agents can audit, learn, and act on real data.

Agent Hustle: Talk your way into DeFi

While other projects make Hedera intelligent and verifiable, Agent Hustle makes it conversational. Originally one of the top AI-agent frameworks on Solana, it’s now expanding to Hedera to bring a battle-tested Agent-as-a-Service layer that turns complex onchain work into simple, natural-language commands.

Ask it to do something and Hustle translates your request into secure, non-custodial transactions executed on Hedera’s low-fee rails. Built by the Emblem Vault team, Hustle converts human intent into verifiable blockchain actions.

What Hustle can do on MemeJob (through chat):

• Token discovery & research: Browse trending Hedera meme tokens; search by name or contract; inspect market cap, volume, holders, and price/flow trends.

• Trading ops: Quick buy/sell of MemeJob tokens; execute swaps with sensible slippage; check HBAR and token balances; auto-wrap/unwarp WHBAR when needed.

• Market intelligence: Real-time prices, liquidity/volume analysis, launch tracking, and community engagement signals.

• Platform integration: Plugs into SaucerSwap liquidity when relevant; handles native HBAR fees; can combine MemeJob data with other sources for cross-checks.

Under the hood, Hustle exposes four composable systems developers can reuse via the Hustle SDK:

• ToolBox for live data aggregation

• Memory System to learn user preferences

• Conditional Logic for if/then automations and AFK trading

• Conversational Interface so users speak plain English, not view cumbersome dashboards

This is a foundation-level partnership aimed at enterprises as much as retail

Hustle is becoming the multichain, chat-first execution layer that dApps can embed rather than rebuild. By pairing Hedera’s predictably low fees with Hustle’s intelligent automation, even sophisticated flows become as easy as conversation.

Neuron: When machines start paying each other

If memejob and Hashgraph Online focus on digital agents, Neuron bridges the gap to the physical world. Neuron is building the transactional backbone for the emerging machine economy, a world where machines act as both service providers and customers. Think drones, vehicles, and sensors paying each other directly for data, compute, or access.

Neuron runs on Hedera’s verifiable consensus, ensuring that every interaction between machines is authenticated and auditable. Its Neuron SDK allows developers to turn any device into a node capable of discovering and paying others. A no-code Node Builder makes it possible for anyone to design automated workflows, while a built-in x402 marketplace lets machines transact using stablecoins.

In a live demo, an AI agent discovered a remote weather sensor, negotiated access, paid for the data stream, and consumed it: completely autonomously, end to end. No human intermediaries, no API keys, no credit cards.

To secure these transactions, Neuron uses a three-layer defense system:

1. Authentication: devices sign every transaction

2. Reputation: each node builds a verifiable history

3. Protection: a staked validator network arbitrates disputes and secures escrowed payments

This model is demonstrated in practice with a decentralized air-traffic sensing network. It became Neuron’s first real-world deployment, proving that distributed hardware, crypto incentives, and AI automation can co-exist on Hedera.

Neuron transforms Hedera into a programmable marketplace for autonomous systems, a settlement layer for AI and machines alike

Hedera AI Studio: The foundation for verifiable AI agents

Every agentic system on Hedera relies on one shared foundation: Hedera AI Studio.

AI Studio is an open-source toolkit for building verifiable, transparent AI agents that run directly on the Hedera network. It brings together all the core components needed to create autonomous, accountable AI workflows:

• Hedera Agent Kit SDK: a LangChain-compatible framework that lets developers build AI agents capable of performing onchain actions like token transfers, consensus messaging, and data queries

• ElizaOS Plugin: a natural-language interface that connects conversational agents to Hedera, so users can ask things like “What’s my HBAR balance?” and receive verifiable on-chain responses

• Hedera MCP Server: enables integration with tools such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Vercel AI SDK, allowing agents to interact with Hedera directly from development environments

AI Studio turns Hedera into an execution layer for verifiable intelligence, where every prompt, action, and transaction can be proven

What makes AI Studio powerful is its plugin architecture. Through the Hedera Agent Kit, developers can combine native network capabilities (HTS, HCS, accounts, queries) with third-party plugins such as memejob, or even their own custom extensions. Agents can operate in autonomous or human-in-the-loop modes, executing transactions themselves or returning signed bytes for review.

This flexibility allows builders to go from idea to onchain prototype in minutes. A simple “Hello Hedera Agent” script can connect to Testnet, ask for an HBAR balance, mint a token, or submit a message to a topic, all through natural language prompts and standardized LangChain tools.

Because every action runs on Hedera’s Consensus Service, these agents inherit the same guarantees of fairness, transparency, and immutability as the network itself. Combined with Hedera’s predictable low fees, it creates an environment where autonomous agents can operate verifiably and affordably at scale.

AI Studio is the operating layer for Hedera’s agentic economy, where intelligence becomes transparent, auditable, and composable

The emerging agentic web

What began as figments of collective imagination, community experiments, is now propelling a verifiable economy where agents listen, think, talk, and transact on-chain & on-DLT.

Hedera isn’t just a home for dApps anymore. It’s shaping the operating system for autonomous intelligence, where code can earn, spend, and collaborate as freely as us humans think we do.