In early April 2025, its token $PROMPT was listed on several mainstream exchanges and attracted over a million registered users through airdrops and community activities. On #KAITO , Wayfinder has maintained good popularity, indicating community and market recognition.
🔔 Preface:
Web3 is becoming increasingly competitive; nowadays, it's hard to claim to be a new project without some AI. Various new concepts keep emerging, but the problem is that most new users are still figuring out how to use wallets, let alone dealing with inter-chain interactions.
@Wayfinder aims to solve the longstanding problem of 'too complex, hard to use.' It uses AI agents to help users switch between different blockchains, striving to lower the threshold for Web3.
1️⃣ Project Overview:
Wayfinder is developed by Parallel Studios and is positioned as an 'omni-chain' AI tool. If you've heard of their game (Parallel), this should be familiar. Initially, Wayfinder was just a helper tool within the game, designed to assist players with on-chain transactions. However, the team realized that this tool itself was very valuable, so they decided to make it independent and turn it into an AI protocol for everyone.
Its core design is Shells, an AI tool that can help you make cross-chain transfers and perform tasks. You simply need to tell it, 'I want to transfer ETH from Base to Arbitrum,' and it can find the path, package the transaction, and handle the signatures by itself, sparing you from having to manually operate a bunch of tasks.
2️⃣ Core Features:
🔸 AI Agent (Shells): Wayfinder's Shells are autonomous AI agents that allow users to execute cross-chain transactions, DeFi operations, or NFT trades through natural language commands. This design lowers the technical barrier significantly, allowing even those who are not familiar with blockchain to use it.
🔸 Cross-Chain Interoperability: Wayfinder supports multiple blockchains (such as ETH, Base, etc.) and achieves seamless cross-chain asset management and trading through Wayfinding Paths. These paths are developed and verified by the community, forming a decentralized smart contract graph.
🔸 Decentralized Memory and Learning: Shells can not only execute tasks but also learn and optimize based on on-chain data and user interaction records.
🔸 Community-Driven Path Development: Users and developers can create new routing paths and participate in network maintenance by staking PROMPT tokens. The accuracy of the paths is ensured by a verification mechanism, and incorrect paths may lead to a reduction in staked tokens.
Potential confirmed #Wayfinder with broad application potential in DeFi, gaming, and NFTs.
4️⃣ Project Future Planning Route:
According to the roadmap updated in April 2025, Wayfinder will roll out several key updates over the next 90 days. In May, contract agent functionality and a testing framework will be launched, expanding support for more chains; in June, an Alpha version will be released, enhancing Shells' trading agent capabilities, such as portfolio management, and adding fiat entry; in July, more APIs will be opened up to facilitate developer integration. This series of actions is essentially paving the way for the ecosystem.
At the same time, it will interact with Parallel's own gaming ecosystem (such as Colony) to explore the gameplay of AI agents in gaming scenarios, such as automatic resource allocation and strategy optimization, which require more brainpower.
🎯 Final Thoughts:
Wayfinder has indeed been quite active recently, from the iteration of Shells to the advancement of the roadmap, the pace has been consistent. The project does not appear to be one that just talks the talk; at least it is continually making progress. Whether it can truly run smoothly and become a standard on-chain tool will depend on its performance in the next few months.
As of now, it is indeed worth paying attention to in the AI + on-chain tools track. It's not urgent to conclude whether it's suitable for participation, but keeping an eye on its upcoming rhythm should certainly not be a loss.
