The rise of autonomous AI agents is reshaping how work gets done. But as agents grow more powerful, one gap has become impossible to ignore: who approves the decision when the stakes are too high to automate?It Was 3 a.m. When the Agent Pulled the Trigger Marcus had been running an on-chain trading bot for six weeks. It was built on a fine-tuned model trained on three years of ETH/USDC price signals, and it had been profitable every single week. He trusted it. Then, at 3:07 a.m. on a Tuesday,...

The rise of autonomous AI agents is reshaping how work gets done. But as agents grow more powerful, one gap has become impossible to ignore: who approves the decision when the stakes are too high to automate?It Was 3 a.m. When the Agent Pulled the Trigger Marcus had been running an on-chain trading bot for six weeks. It was built on a fine-tuned model trained on three years of ETH/USDC price signals, and it had been profitable every single week. He trusted it. Then, at 3:07 a.m. on a Tuesday,...

It was 4am. ETH was sliding. My health factor on Aave had quietly dropped to 1.15 — deep in danger territory. I was asleep. By morning, ETH bounced back. I got lucky. Most people don’t. The usual tools sent alerts. An email. All ignored. And even if I’d seen them — then what? Wake up, open MetaMask, figure out how much to repay, calculate decimals, hope gas isn’t spiking. By then the window’s gone. That’s the real problem. Not that alerts don’t arrive. It’s that alerts don’t tell you what to ...

It was 4am. ETH was sliding. My health factor on Aave had quietly dropped to 1.15 — deep in danger territory. I was asleep. By morning, ETH bounced back. I got lucky. Most people don’t. The usual tools sent alerts. An email. All ignored. And even if I’d seen them — then what? Wake up, open MetaMask, figure out how much to repay, calculate decimals, hope gas isn’t spiking. By then the window’s gone. That’s the real problem. Not that alerts don’t arrive. It’s that alerts don’t tell you what to ...