MoonPay's Open Wallet Standard Brings Secure Key Management for AI Agents on Arbitrum
MoonPay's Open Wallet Standard Brings Secure Key Management for AI Agents on Arbitrum
馃 AI agents get wallets
MoonPay launches Open Wallet Standard (OWS) - a security framework enabling AI agents to safely handle crypto operations on Arbitrum.
Key capabilities:
- Secure key storage for autonomous agents
- Cross-chain wallet management from a single interface
- Transaction signing with built-in guardrails
The standard is now live on Arbitrum, with 15+ contributors working on scaling agentic payments onchain. Developers can integrate OWS to build applications in the emerging agentic programmable economy.
The agentic programmable economy grows with better wallet security. Open Wallet Standard (OWS) by @moonpay introduces guardrails for AI agents to securely store keys, manage wallets, and sign transactions. Learn how to enable it on your AI agent and start building in the
AI Agent Wallets Are Broken. Let's Fix That. 00:00 The actual problem 02:20 OWS Architecture 05:22 Step-by-step guide 08:18 Next Steps Every AI agent today uses a raw private key in .env, loaded in memory with full signing power, signing anything the LLM asks. That's the
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