One of the most popular crypto wallets on the market, MetaMask, has launched a non-custodial wallet designed for AI agents. Agent Wallet will enable autonomous trading across the Ethereum ecosystem, including for swaps, perps, prediction markets and liquidity provisioning, on a suite of EVM chains and Hyperliquid, according to an announcement on Monday.
"The next great expansion of the onchain economy won't be driven by humans alone," Consensys founder Joe Lubin said. "Machine intelligences will increasingly transact, coordinate, and verify one another on crypto rails because crypto protocols are uniquely well designed for autonomous actors."
MetaMask is one of the most used crypto tools, with about 26% of the wallet market share, according to Token Terminal.
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The move comes as more and more crypto companies and projects roll out tools geared for AI use cases. Exchanges like Gemini are letting users connect AI bots to trade on their behalf, while wallet and credit card issuers experiment with giving autonomous agents dedicated wallets and cards.
MetaMask notes that Agent Wallet was built with security in mind, given the inherent tradeoff between "giving the agent freedom to act and keeping users’ funds safe." According to the announcement, every transaction will undergo mandatory simulation and abide by preset rules — including daily spend limits and allow lists — determined by each user.
Blockaid will also scan transactions for scams and other threats, which will trigger a 2FA push notification or email to approve transactions deemed risky or that fall outside a human user’s preset standards.
"Agents will manage real capital and make real financial decisions, and the infrastructure underneath has to be worthy of that," Lubin said. "MetaMask Agent Wallet is the first agent wallet built with comprehensive full-stack security for that world: one where agents act with autonomy, security is mandatory, and the person behind the agent stays in control."
In the announcement, Consensys notes that transactions deemed safe will also be covered up to $10,000 by MetaMask’s Transaction Protection, subject to terms and conditions.
Agent Wallet will be framework-agnostic. The announcement notes it is compatible with OpenClaw, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Nous Research Hermes Agent, Cursor, and other providers.
MetaMask is rolling out Agent Wallet to a limited number of users via command-line interface in an Early Access Program, and planning for general availability in the coming months this summer.