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MetaMask Launches Agent Wallets

MetaMask launched Agent Wallet, giving AI agents self-custodial access to onchain trading within user-defined limits and security controls.
MetaMask Launches Agent Wallets
David Christopher David Christopher
Aug 6, 2026 • 1 min read
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MetaMask launched early access for Agent Wallet on Thursday, a self-custodial wallet configured for AI agents to execute onchain while abiding by user-set permissions. General access will go live later this summer.

What’s the Scoop?

  • Constrained Agent Execution: Users can set daily spending limits and whitelist specific protocols before letting an agent swap, use perpetuals, prediction markets, DeFi, etc.
  • Two Control Modes: Guard Mode requires human approval when a transaction falls outside the user’s rules. Beast Mode reduces approval interruptions, though flagged or malicious transactions still require two-factor authentication.
  • Built-In Security: Supported EVM transactions pass through transaction simulation, Blockaid-powered threat scanning, and MEV protection: "fixed" checks which agents cannot override.
  • Chains and Agent: Agent Wallet works across all supported EVM chains, as well as Hyperliquid, and lists support for frameworks like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, and OpenCode.

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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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