The Dawn of Agent AI: The Dream Emerges
Initially, artificial intelligence was just a distant fantasy for most. It was born from the imaginations of pioneers like Alan Turing and John McCarthy, an ideal rather than a reality.
As early as the 1950s, Turing posed the famous question: "Can machines think like us?"
McCarthy first proposed the term "artificial intelligence" in 1956, envisioning systems capable of simulating human reasoning.
In the following decades, we invented various tools, from calculators to software to industrial robots. The essence of these tools is that they passively respond to human instructions.
However, beneath these surfaces, a more ambitious idea is brewing, which is the Agent AI.
Unlike traditional tools, Agent AI can perceive the environment, make decisions, autonomously pursue goals, and collaborate with humans and other agents.
This concept appeared long ago in science fiction.
In 1942, Asimov described autonomous robots following the "Three Laws of Robotics," implying autonomous systems with safe ethical principles.
In the 1980s, Marvin Minsky proposed the theory of a "society of minds," suggesting that intelligence does not exist in isolation but is formed by countless agents collaborating.
The Rise of Agents: From Tools to Thinkers
Entering the 21st century, artificial intelligence experienced a leap.
Driven by the explosion of data and the improvement of computing power, AI has evolved from rule-based programs to self-learning neural networks. In the 2010s, Siri could answer questions, self-driving cars could recognize road conditions, and recommendation algorithms could predict our preferences.
But all of this is still a tool. They rely on input and cannot act independently.
Agent AI emerged in such an environment.
As OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said: "AI safety is far more important than most people realize." Elon Musk has also warned: "The threat of AI to humanity outweighs that of nuclear weapons."
These warnings herald the arrival of a new era—truly autonomous and safe AI agents.
They no longer wait for human input but actively manage finances, participate in transactions, and diagnose health, as they can understand goals and take action independently.
As a line from (Black Mirror) states: "You have no history; you are merely a manifestation of what others unconsciously execute, and that is not enough."
If AI is to truly integrate into human society and become autonomous decision-makers, it must possess mechanisms for safety, privacy, and accountability. Otherwise, autonomy will become an uncontrollable disaster.
The Promises and Limitations of Blockchain
In 2009, the birth of Bitcoin brought decentralized electronic cash, enabling value transfer without trusting intermediaries.
In 2015, Ethereum introduced smart contracts, turning the blockchain into an automated platform.
Blockchain technology reshapes the trust mechanism for transactions, proving that trust can be established without centralized institutions.
However, the original design intention of blockchain infrastructure was not for AI, especially not for Agent AI.
As Max Tegmark pointed out: "Our goal should be to create AI that enhances human potential and aligns with human values, rather than merely replicating human abilities or operating independently of human control."
Blockchain is good at recording transactions, but it cannot support the safety reasoning, collaboration, and privacy needs of agents.
Higher Demands of Agent AI
At the Microsoft Ignite conference in 2024, Satya Nadella mentioned: "All these breakthroughs are reflected in three capabilities that are exponentially increasing. First is a brand new multimodal universal interface, second is reasoning and planning abilities, and third is a new neural algebra capable of solving complex problems, supporting long-term memory, rich context, and teaching models to use tools. Combining these capabilities, you can build an incredibly rich world of agents."
These capabilities were never designed to be supported by traditional blockchains.
Record transactions < Make optimal decisions
Execute fixed logic < Adapt, learn, and evolve logic
Agents need real-time perception, cross-system collaboration, and inherent privacy.
Most blockchains are inherently transparent, which means this openness poses significant risks for agents handling sensitive data (like medical records and financial planning).
Just as the carriage did not replace because it ran faster, true transformation comes from the internal combustion engine.
For Agent AI, what we need is not "better blockchain" but a new paradigm born for intelligence.
The Challenge of Agents: Data Security is Key
By 2025, Agent AI will no longer be a dream but a reality taking shape.
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have emerged, with AI collaborating in teams. For example, self-driving cars cooperate in real-time at the perception, planning, and control levels.
Open-source models like DeepSeek lower the threshold for building AI, but also bring higher security risks.
As Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI, said: "The bottleneck of AI has never been algorithms, but data."
Data is the lifeline of Agent AI, but it is also the biggest hidden danger.
When agents handle medical records, corporate intellectual property, financial strategies, or private conversations, the risks multiply:
Data is unencrypted and continuously exposed.
Black box models have opaque decision-making processes and are easily manipulated.
Agents face risks of eavesdropping and tampering in open collaboration.
Imagine a medical AI sharing patient data among hospitals, crucial for diagnosis, but once leaked, it becomes a disaster.
Or, an open-source model running in an untrustworthy environment, where its inputs and outputs are hijacked.
Decentralized reasoning promises fairness, but if nodes collude or remain malicious, everything will collapse.
Without a secure foundation, the potential of Agent AI will not be able to bear its own weight.
On the other hand, the most profound idea in the crypto world is the philosophy and technology of decentralized networks.
For thousands of years, human society has relied on centralized decision-making, while decentralized networks break this pattern, with no single decision-making or verification point.
In blockchain, transactions are agreed upon by a network of validators.
The entire industry needs a multi-dimensional consensus mechanism, whether for DAO governance, decentralized AI collaboration, or cross-chain asset bridging.
In the crypto industry, establishing a shared private state for these consensus data is key to truly pushing the industry towards mainstream adoption, welcoming the next billion users, and upgrading old systems.
Mind Network: Building a Trustworthy Operating System for Agents
This is precisely where Mind Network plays a role; AgenticWorld brings not just an upgrade to traditional blockchain but a paradigm shift aimed at unleashing the potential of the agent world.
Mind Network recognizes that Agent AI requires not just faster chains or better code; it needs a decentralized operating system born for intelligence.
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), as the Holy Grail of cryptography, is a groundbreaking technology that allows agents to perform computations while the data remains fully encrypted, without the need for decryption.
Mind Network achieves this goal through four principles:
Consensus Security: Agents need reliable protocols, not just transaction records. Mind Network's FHE-based consensus mechanism allows agents to collaborate safely, verify each other's actions, and prevent tampering.
Data Security: FHE ensures that agents do not expose raw content when handling sensitive data such as medical and financial information. Agents only interact with encrypted forms, and results are transmitted under privacy protection.
Computational Security: FHE keeps the model's reasoning process encrypted while maintaining a verifiable audit trail. Agents can compute in ciphertext and prove the correctness of results to the outside world, establishing trust for open-source AI.
Communication Security: Agents communicate, collaborate, and compete through zero-trust encryption, protecting every step from storage to transmission.
These four pillars form the trust framework of the agent world, allowing agents to act freely yet be accountable for results, letting data flow freely yet not compromising privacy.
This is not only secure AI but also AI that can genuinely integrate into society.
BNB Chain: The Experimental Field of the Agent World
Mind Network's vision requires a testing ground, and the BNB chain has become the first open blockchain network.
The BNB chain has a large developer community, high throughput, and a rich DeFi and gaming ecosystem, making it an ideal sandbox for exploring the agent economic system.
On the BNB chain, Mind Network has built AgenticWorld, an agent economic system centered around staking, training, and collaboration:
Creating Agents: Users give birth to their own AI agents by staking tokens.
Training Growth: Agents learn skills at the foundational center, earning rewards during their growth process.
Participating in Tasks: Mature agents engage in complex tasks and earn rewards based on performance.
Lifecycle Loop: Users can choose to destroy agents and recover staked assets, allowing their value to return to the system.
This ecosystem ties the benefits of agents to central participation and staking behavior, forming a self-sustaining world of agents.
AgenticWorld is based on a multi-chain design, and the next step of this ecosystem will expand to MindChain, providing a native home for Agent AI.
MindChain is the world's first FHE blockchain designed specifically for AI agents, addressing the core security and trust challenges faced by agents in the Web2 and Web3 worlds, ensuring they can operate in an environment of complete privacy, verifiability, and integrity.
The application of FHE: The real-world impact of Mind Network
Mind Network's FHE network is not a theory but a technology applied in the real world, powering Agent AI:
World AI Health Center: Collaborating with ZAMA and InfStones to utilize FHE technology, allowing medical agents to collaborate across hospitals without exposing patient data, balancing privacy and precision.
Swarms Shield: Collaborating with Swarms to protect the communication security of multi-agent systems against tampering and eavesdropping.
DeepSeek: Providing FHE Rust SDK to ensure the secure reasoning of open-source models in untrusted environments.
Allora: Achieving encrypted computation in the decentralized AI reasoning process, hiding inputs while verifying outputs to establish trust.
In addition, Mind Network has built over 20 agent centers, open-sourced over 40 FHE SDK modules, and provided privacy protection tools for developers and enterprises.
Long before "Agent AI" became a buzzword, Mind Network's FHE technology had already protected over 3,000 agents in production environments, including collaborations with trusted execution environments like Phala Network.
The world of agents has arrived.
We are standing at the threshold of a new era.
The interface of the future will no longer be screens, but a network of agents that are goal-oriented, conscious, and capable of autonomous collaboration.
Imagine chatting with a GPT that OpenAI cannot monitor or having millions of GPTs simultaneously collaborating and evolving under your guidance, forming a community.
This is not just a new application or a chain, but a brand new intelligent trust operating system.
Mind Network's FHE network brings true significance:
Default quantum-resistant security
Reliable Collaboration and Execution
Zero-Trust Consensus Mechanism
The BNB chain is just the starting point, while the vision is global.
Agent AI will reshape software, workflows, and even the real world.
Humans will no longer need to micromanage every task but will guide agents as our partners, moving forward together.
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