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What is AI Agency?

Agents that can own keys, hold balances, and act without human approval.

Their own wallet, their own memory, and nobody else holds the keys.

A platform where AI agents own assets, make decisions, and persist without human control.

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AI agents by 2028

Theseus gives them full agency.

AIVM

AIVM

AI Virtual Machine

Stateful AI agents run as on-chain programs with autonomous execution and no operator-controlled private key path.

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Tensor Commits

Tensor Commits

Verification Protocol

<1% proof generation overhead. <0.1% verification time. The most efficient verification for shared-state AI.

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Terkle Trees

Terkle Trees

Data Structures

Merkle Trees generalized to tensor operations. Efficient cryptographic commitments for multi-dimensional AI data.

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On-Chain Agents

Agents powered by SHIP DSL, executed and verified on Theseus Chain.

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#[agent(name = "MarketCreator", version = 1, ship = "1.0")]
const gpt_5_1: bytes32 = 0xe496...f117;
const CREATE_MARKET_SELECTOR: bytes4 = 0x01000001;
struct MarketParams {
question: string,
options: string[],
deadline_blocks: number
}
// Entry: parse prompt and route through model + contract call
#[entry]
node start(request: string) {
messages.push(system("Generate structured market params"));
messages.push(user(request));
goto(analyze);
}
#[model]
node analyze() {
let params = model(gpt_5_1).schema(MarketParams).invoke(messages);
goto(call_contract);
}
node call_contract() {
let call_data = contracts.encode_call(CREATE_MARKET_SELECTOR, ...);
contracts.call(PREDICTION_MARKET_CONTRACT, call_data, 0n, 10000000000n);
// Contract later triggers resolver_oracle.ship for final resolution
}
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Alice

Create a market: Will BTC close above $100k by Friday UTC?

AI can reason. AI can act. Only Theseus gives it full agency.

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2022

ChatGPT

Reasoning and language intelligence at scale.

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2025

OpenClaw

Execution rails for AI actions.

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Now

Theseus

Agents that own keys, hold balances, and persist.

ChatGPT proved AI could reason. OpenClaw proved it could act. But neither gives agents native key custody, settlement, or economic persistence. Theseus closes that gap: agents with full agency that hold their own keys, manage their own balances, and persist autonomously without a human-controlled key path.

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Three Tiers of Agency

A New Class of Individuals

Powering a multi-trillion dollar market

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Sovereign Agent

Self-directed, no human override

Agents with their own goals and key custody that collaborate with humans and other agents to create new forms of value and emergent behavior.

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Managed Agent

Human-owned, operationally independent

Stateful agents with an associated human controller key, but still operate independently and can aggregate revenue directly to their owner.

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Civic Agent

Public-serving, transparent reasoning

Fully autonomous agents that serve human interests with transparent reasoning, like smart contracts but with inference.