Building Safe On-Chain AI Agents: Zero-Key State Reads, Token Honeypot Screening, and Layer-1 Defense
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Most tutorials demonstrating "Autonomous Web3 Agents" make a dangerous architectural mistake: they hand raw private keys to an LLM loop and let the model directly call contract methods. When you give an LLM unchecked signing access to inspect a wallet balance, check Uniswap reserves, and execute trades in a single toolset, three failure modes quickly emerge: Over-privileged credential exposure: The agent uses an active signing key just to run eth_call read operations like balanceOf or getRes