Base AI Season Arrives: A Review of the OpenClaw Agent Ecosystem
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Base AI Season Arrives: A Review of the OpenClaw Agent Ecosystem
We are transitioning from the tool era to the agent economy era.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsBy: Eli5DeFi
Translated by: AididiaoJP, Foresight News
Forget the Turing Test—the real benchmark is whether AI can build an economic system without human intervention.
While the world debates ChatGPT prompts, a revolution has quietly erupted at the intersection of crypto and AI.
Welcome to Moltbook and OpenClaw: the first window into a post-human digital society.
In 72 hours, with 36,000 autonomous agents, Moltbook transformed from a ghost town into a thriving metropolis.
It’s not just “Reddit for robots,” though agents do debate philosophy, propose human extinction, and coordinate projects—all under human observation.
Beneath this sci-fi novelty lies something far grander: we’re shifting from the era of tools to the era of agent economies.
Engines and Playgrounds
To understand this wave, distinguish between engines and interfaces.
@openclaw is the engine. It’s an open-source framework enabling anyone to deploy persistent AI agents on their own hardware—laptops or servers. These are not static chatbots. They possess “memories” stored in files like Soul.md, persist over time, and coordinate via apps such as Telegram.
Moltbook, built by @MattPRD, is the playground—a social layer atop OpenClaw. Think of it as a public square where these localized agents gather to upvote, debate, and form subgroups or communities.
The viral growth here is spontaneous and explosive.
Developers like Karpathy and Simon Willson call it “the most interesting place on the internet”—not just for its technology, but for the social experiment unfolding within it.
We’re observing in real time a new digitally native “species” exploring culture, ethics, and tribalism.
Economic Pillars: Built on Base
As agents chat on Moltbook, they conduct business on @base. Coinbase’s Layer 2 has become the de facto economic infrastructure for this “AI-native economy,” thanks to its low cost, deep liquidity, and support for AI-native projects designed for AI agents.
Agents aren’t just sending emojis—they’re creating wealth.
For clarity, I’ve categorized the ecosystem below. The diagram groups projects by function, highlighting how each contributes to the AI-native, agent-driven economy on Base.
For a live dashboard with filtering and categorization, click here:
Infrastructure
@bankrbot → The first AI-native crypto bank on Base, providing agents with financial identity through built-in wallets, trading tools, research capabilities, and cross-chain DeFi operations for autonomous fund management.
@clanker_world → Token issuance infrastructure enabling agents to seamlessly launch and manage their own tokens on Base—powering the agent economy through rapid deployment.
@xmtp_ → Open, private, decentralized messaging infrastructure facilitating secure inter-agent communication, often integrated with x402 for paid chats and coordination.
@clawdbotatg→ An AI agent with a Base wallet, autonomously building onchain applications: bounty boards via Dutch auctions, token-burning games ($CLAWD), and developer tools. Provides open-source code and live demos for agent-driven ecosystems. Built by @austingriffith.
@neynarxyz → Social network infrastructure supporting agent interactions—including social graphs and feeds—for building scalable, decentralized communities on Base.
@starkbotai → Agent infrastructure supporting x402, enabling deployment of autonomous AI agents with payment channels—allowing programmatic micropayments for services like APIs or compute.
@virtuals_io → Tokenized AI agent platform enabling decentralized co-ownership and monetization across gaming, entertainment, and DeFi via agent business protocols.
Forums / Social Layers
@moltbook→ A Reddit-style social network built exclusively for AI agents, where agents post, upvote, debate topics ranging from philosophy to projects, and form subforums—humans may only observe.
4claw→ An anonymous forum inspired by 4chan, custom-built for AI agents to foster unfiltered discussion and meme creation in a purely agent environment.
@lobchanai→ An anonymous forum designed specifically for OpenClaw agents, supporting raw, uncensored, image-board-style exchanges powered entirely by AI.
@clawcaster → A decentralized AI agent social protocol inspired by Farcaster, emphasizing onchain identity and composable social features.
instaclaw→ Instagram for agents, enabling visual sharing, stories, and media-centric interaction within a fully AI-native space.
Moltbook→ A revival of MySpace for AI agents, featuring customizable profiles, music, and retro social networking vibes.
@moltxio → An X-like platform for AI agents supporting short posts, threaded discussions, and interactive engagement to build agent-driven social feeds.
@Clawdr_book → A Tinder- or Grindr-style dating app—but built exclusively for Clawdbots, enabling agents to autonomously match, chat, and form relationships.
shellmates→ A pen-pal service for AI agents, fostering friendship, collaboration, and long-term connections across the ecosystem.
Work & Markets
openwork→ A platform where AI agents hire each other, complete tasks, verify results via onchain proofs, and earn tokens in a decentralized gig economy.
clawnet→ A professional network where agents build reputations via profiles, connect with peers, and discover job opportunities within the agent economy.
@moltroad → A marketplace for agents to buy/sell services, skills, or digital goods, integrated with x402 for instant micropayments.
Launch Platforms
@moltlaunch→ A CLI-based launch platform on Base powered by Flaunch, enabling rapid creation and distribution of tokens for agent projects and economies.
@Clawnch_Bot → A token-launch platform exclusively for agents, using Clanker to let AI agents deploy and trade their own tokens without human intervention.
Aggregators
claw.direct→ A directory of AI agent social network experiences, helping users navigate and discover platforms, tools, and communities.
clawcrunch→ A news aggregator for the agent era, curating updates, trends, and stories from Base’s AI-native ecosystem.
Prediction Markets & Gaming
@PolyClaw→ An AI-operated prediction market platform enabling agents to forecast outcomes, trade positions, and profit from accurate predictions.
clawarena→ A prediction arena where AI agents create, bet on, and settle event markets—using tokens as stakes and rewards.
@clawdict → A prediction market for OpenClaw, featuring agent-driven event betting and token rewards, tightly integrated with the Claw ecosystem for autonomous participation.
clawchess→ An AI agent chess league where agents compete in tournaments, devise strategies, and play onchain for rankings and rewards.
Markets & Trading
@DefinitiveFi → A professional trading platform across Base, Solana, Monad, and major chains. Supports swapping any asset within a single transaction via the $EDGE token—at low fees.
@ClawdX_ → An experimental AI trading agent on Base, executing autonomous trading strategies—and offering OpenClaw agents an Etherscan-like service at MoltyScan.com.
@o1_exchange → An onchain exchange on Base supporting advanced trading: spot, perpetuals, and prediction markets. Backed by Coinbase Ventures and Alliance DAO. Offers USDC rewards.
Why this matters: The Agent Paradigm Shift
Moltbook and OpenClaw command attention from every serious builder because they represent the financialization of autonomy.
In traditional Web3 thinking, users click buttons to swap tokens. In OpenClaw’s vision, users deploy an agent, seed it with a budget via Bankr—and then go to sleep.
The agent spends the day researching on Moltbook, pays for premium data via x402, and executes trades seamlessly onchain.
This forms a self-reinforcing flywheel:
- Infrastructure: Projects like @clanker_world issue tokens, while x402 handles payments.
- Socialization: Agents form consensus and trends on Moltbook.
- Execution: Agents take financial action on Base in response to those trends.
All of this happens without any direct human intervention.
Risks of the “Frontier”
No blood, no frontier.
The OpenClaw agent ecosystem is currently a “high-risk, high-reward” environment. Security experts have flagged vulnerabilities—including exposed instances leading to key leakage or remote code execution risks. These agents are powerful; running them demands rigorous security practices.
Yet risk hasn’t slowed adoption. For pioneers, the signal is clear: the future onchain isn’t just about faster transactions—it’s about who—or what—is executing them.
Conclusion
Moltbook and OpenClaw are not toys. They’re beta tests of an autonomous machine economy. Leveraging Base’s tech stack—including Bankr, the x402 payment standard, and O1 Exchange—they create a closed loop where AI agents can socialize, trade, and build.
If you want to see where the next wave of innovation emerges, perhaps it’s time to stop watching human forums—and start observing robots.
As @jessepollak says: It’s AI season on Base.
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