Why Rollups Need Robots: The Case for Agent-Led Finance
Key insights from Renç Korzay, co-founder of Giza
DeFi is a stress test for agents: the stakes are real, the systems are live, and failure is costly. Renç Korzay, co-founder of Giza, broke down what’s missing before we can trust AI to manage capital: clean data pipelines, verifiable execution, usable agent interfaces, and risk management baked in from the start.
These aren’t just DeFi problems. They’re the same issues that will decide how AI systems evolve across domains: how agents coordinate, how intelligence is evaluated, and how control is distributed.
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Wallets → Wardens
The old paradigm solved custody. But custody without protection means nothing when markets outpace human attention. The new unit isn’t the wallet, it’s the warden: an autonomous AI agent that defends, grows, and reallocates capital in real time.
Wardens act as treasury managers personalized to each user:
Capital never mingles with others.
Strategies align with personal risk/return preferences.
Execution happens 24/7 without human input.
This flips DeFi from static vaults to dynamic, individualized execution.
Flattening Complexity
Today, deploying capital in DeFi means mastering protocols, chains, gas fees, and security assumptions. The missing layer is intent → action translation.
Agents sit on top of a standardized logic layer: all primitives (AMMs, vaults, lending markets) abstracted into simple calls. For users, the UX shrinks from weeks of onboarding to a one-click (or zero-click) intent system.
You define the goal, not the steps. The agent handles the rest.
Market Discipline Through Agents
Agents don’t chase incentives, points, or marketing campaigns. They chase efficiency. This forces market-level discipline:
High gas costs? Agents won’t route there.
Extractive protocols? Ignored.
Inefficient liquidity? Abandoned.
This dynamic naturally rewards low-latency, low-cost, composable ecosystems and penalizes those that lag. Over time, agents may become the ultimate governance layer, enforcing health across ecosystems.
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Why Rollups Need Robots
Most L2 ecosystems today face the same crisis: idle TVL, zombie protocols, and unsustainable incentive programs. Agents provide the missing user base, not humans manually bridging, but millions of always-on financial actors.
For ecosystems, building for agents means:
Latency low enough for real-time execution.
Cheap fees to ensure profitability.
Rich sets of DeFi “Legos” to maximize optionality.
Robust data streams, the bread and butter of AI optimization.
If ecosystems don’t optimize for agents, they’ll be bypassed in favor of those that do.
Hyperpersonalized Finance as the Endgame
Globally, there’s a shift toward agents that run daily life. Finance is the natural frontier. The vision is a personal treasury manager for everyone, scaling capital productivity by 20x or more.
This isn’t future hype. It’s already live: thousands of users running personalized agents, executing hundreds of thousands of trades, and keeping wealth both productive and protected.
Agents aren’t just another DeFi tool. They are the infrastructure shift that can finally close the gap between what users want and what markets demand.
The question isn’t whether agents will manage capital, it’s whether your ecosystem is ready for them.
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