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If You Read This Article, You Buy $oracle

Understanding Noice's new Oracle agent and its vision of curated capital markets.
If You Read This Article, You Buy $oracle
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This week you might have seen Jesse’s post about an agent called Oracle by Noice.

It read: if you like this tweet, you buy Oracle. Whether or not the feature actually worked for you is beside the point, because what Oracle actually enables — and what it is beginning to do — is more interesting than what it can currently do.

But first let’s understand exactly what Oracle is and how it works.

Developed by the Noice team (the same group behind the viral tipping app on Farcaster), the Oracle agent is a new solution for buying predetermined amounts of whitelisted Internet Capital Markets (ICM) tokens across Base Base and Solana Solana directly on Twitter by simply liking or replying to a tweet from oracle agent which mentions a specific ticker.

(Tokens are whitelisted when the agent tweets about them, and can be submitted for consideration via DM.)

Of course you need to set the agent up first which can be done on their website:

  1.  You connect your Twitter
  2.  Fund your wallet on Base or SOL
  3. Set the default buy amount, just like you would with Noice previously
  4. Start liking Oracle’s tweets to buy tokens. 

There are two types of buys, meant to be a way to determine the size of your bids: regular spends, triggered by liking tweets, and super aligned buys, triggered by commenting “aligned” under an Oracle tweet.

The platform also has its own token, ORACLE, which is paired with NOICE. The Noice team has stated though that the ORACLE token is simply meant to be a proving ground for the platform, rather than the central component of it. However, it does operate from a $20K treasury, charges a 1% swap fee on both likes and “aligned” buys, and uses all realized profits and fees to buy back and burn ORACLE

While eliminating friction may be interesting to some, what has my attention here is how Oracle looks set up to be an emerging curation layer

In its vision, Oracle details an upcoming scout program, where users can tag Oracle to identify new founders for Noice and earn from successful referrals. Selected founders, in turn, would be able to launch tokens directly through Oracle and embed buy actions into their own timelines, just like we can now do with Oracle.

"Launching Soon" in top left

Further, given the Jesse Pollak Jesse Pollak beta trial, I expect this could extend further, to not just founders, but also to CT personalities, though I could very much be wrong.

Closing Thoughts

While Oracle is a fun mechanism, I still hold skepticism, given that similar experiments — most notably Solana Blinks — tried to embed blockchain-native actions into Twitter and failed to take off. Granted, Blinks did depend on stricter user requirements, including Phantom Phantom installation and specific feature toggles, which may have limited its reach. Oracle’s simplicity could give it a different trajectory.

That said, beyond taking a shot on a bigger court — a defensible instinct — I’m still unsure why Noice prioritized Twitter over Farcaster, which feels structurally better suited to this behavior and is also where Noice has already shown traction. 

Overall, Oracle reads as a proof of the (seemingly) most promising development trends in crypto right now — AI and internet-capital markets. It emerges from genuine momentum and demonstrates the expansion a team can pursue once they’ve developed a product actually in demand. I’m excited to see what will come.


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David Christopher

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David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.

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