AI Agents Struggle with Multi-Chain DeFi Due to Fragmented Blockchain Operations

🤖 AI agents breaking

By Biconomy
Dec 4, 2025, 3:59 PM
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AI agents face execution challenges when handling complex blockchain operations across multiple chains.​

A simple yield optimization request creates significant complexity:

  • 5+ separate transactions required
  • Multiple gas tokens needed
  • Partial execution risks emerge
  • Chain-specific error handling complications

Biconomy's Supertransaction API addresses these issues by bundling operations that AI agents shouldn't handle directly:

  • Gas management automation
  • Retry mechanisms
  • Failure handling
  • Settlement coordination

Key benefit: One signature executes complete multi-chain workflows.​ If any step fails, the entire transaction reverts cleanly.​

This solution transforms months of custom protocol integrations into a single API call, enabling developers to build functional AI agents in days rather than weeks.​

Learn more in the documentation

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Building AI agents for DeFi used to require months of protocol integrations. The traditional development cycle: ▶ Week 1-4: Learn protocol-specific APIs ▶ Week 5-8: Build custom smart contracts ▶ Week 9-12: Audit and test integrations ▶ Week 13-16: Deploy and debug across

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AI agents can handle simple DeFi tasks, but can they execute complex multi-protocol strategies? ❌ Before: Agent needs to "rebalance portfolio across chains" → developer codes complex integrations → agent breaks on execution complexity ✅ Now: Agent says "Rebalance to 60/40

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AI agents fail at execution because blockchain operations are fragmented. A simple "optimize yield across chains" request becomes: 🔶 5+ separate transactions 🔶 Multiple gas token requirements 🔶 Partial execution risks 🔶 Chain-specific error handling Supertransaction API

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