# Get Started with DeFAI

*Author: Bankless*
*Published: Jan 10, 2025*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/es/read/get-started-with-defai*

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Get Started with DeFAI
  

  
  Published on Jan 10, 2025

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- **👜 U.S. Finance Regulator Goes After Crypto Wallet Providers.** Biden admin regulators [go after MetaMask and other wallet providers](https://www.bankless.com/read/u-s-finance-regulator-goes-after-crypto-wallet-providers).
- **🇬🇧** **UK Creates Crypto Staking Regulatory Carveout. **Crypto asset staking providers [set to win big with proposed amendment](https://www.bankless.com/read/uk-creates-crypto-staking-regulatory-carveout-2).

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**📸 Daily Market Snapshot: **Despite a brutal day on Wall Street caused by better-than-expected jobs numbers showing a tough path forward for rate cuts, crypto markets trended subtly upward after days of downward price action which took BTC and ETH near monthly lows.

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ANALYSIS

  
  

DeFAI: Top Projects Tackling AI Agents + DeFi
  
  
   
     
     Bankless Author: 
     
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       Kazu Umemoto](https://www.bankless.com/author/kazu)
     
    
 

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2025/01/image---2025-01-10T171306.139.png)](https://www.bankless.com/read/defai-top-projects-tackling-ai-agents-defi)Last month, we released our list of the [top AI agent infrastructure plays and tokens](https://www.bankless.com/read/the-most-promising-ai-agent-infrastructure-plays-tokens), but hype surrounding this sector has led to builders quickly innovating on new ideas since then. Onchain agents have evolved from posting tweets to 'running' investment DAOs, and now developers are creating entire applications that leverage these AI agents in navigating DeFi. 

While most of these projects have launched fairly recently, the buzz is building for the sector, and many think there could be huge waves in the *DeFAI* space soon.

*Here are our top DeFAI plays and tokens that we’re watching at Bankless👇 *

[Read on Bankless.com](https://www.bankless.com/read/defai-top-projects-tackling-ai-agents-defi)
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