We’re taking AURA from wallet intelligence to action, and SKALE provides the x402-ready rails to do so with zero gas, fast finality, and private execution.
AURA started with a simple idea: a wallet should do more.
DeFi is full of opportunities, but acting on them still takes too much manual work. You need to monitor positions, compare yields, track risk, manage approvals, and keep up with a 24/7 market. Over time, that vision has moved beyond portfolio analysis into something more interactive and more practical inside the wallet itself.
That is exactly why our partnership with SKALE makes sense.
What SKALE brings to AURA
SKALE has been building toward a future where agents can transact continuously in the background, with zero gas fees, very fast settlement, and privacy-preserving execution. That is not just interesting infrastructure on paper. It solves real constraints for products like AURA, where intelligence is only useful if users and agents can act on it without unnecessary cost, latency, or exposure.
AURA users would be able to benefit from zero gas fees
Why does it matter
Zero gas changes the economics of interaction. AURA is moving toward workflows that are smaller, more frequent, and more conditional than a typical one-off transaction. On most networks, fees undermine that model very quickly. On SKALE, they don’t
Fast finality makes AURA more responsive. If a wallet assistant is going to help with execution, timing matters. Waiting around for confirmation is not a great fit for agent-driven flows or any experience that is supposed to feel close to real time. SKALE is built for that kind of speed.
Privacy matters more than people admit. As AURA becomes more capable, there will be more cases where transaction intent, strategy logic, or order flow should not be exposed too early. SKALE’s BITE-enabled encrypted transactions are a meaningful advantage there.
x402 is where things get especially interesting.
We already integrated x402 into the AURA API because we see machine-native payments as a real part of where Web3 is going. x402 matters to us because it supports a more natural payment layer for agents, apps, and automated services. Combined with SKALE’s zero-gas infrastructure, AURA gains a much stronger foundation for machine-driven execution.
That connection matters to us.
Why is x402 important
AURA is more than a front-end assistant. We are building it as infrastructure that can be used by wallets, users, and other agents. x402 provides a cleaner way to support agent-to-agent access, payment, and coordination. SKALE creates an environment where those flows make economic sense, especially when they become frequent or small enough that traditional gas costs would otherwise get in the way.
We already know there is demand for better wallet intelligence. AURA has reached more than 17K monthly users, and the system has analyzed wallets representing over $500M in TVL. The next step is making that intelligence more actionable.SKALE helps us do that with better execution conditions, stronger privacy, and a much more credible setup for x402-based agent flows.
We don’t want AURA to be another dashboard, chatbot, or news checker bolted onto DeFi.We are building AURA as a layer that can interpret, decide, and help execute while still keeping the user in control.
That is the direction we are building in. And that is why we chose SKALE.
About SKALE
SKALE is a blockchain network built for high-frequency onchain activity, AI agents, machine payments, and automated applications. The network stands out with zero gas fees, near-instant finality, and BITE-enabled private execution, which helps protect transaction logic before settlement. SKALE also provides x402 and agentic commerce, positioning itself as infrastructure for machine-to-machine payments and real-time autonomous interactions.
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🚨Every time you use ChatGPT or any other closed model, you risk exposing your data to the model provider indefinitely
To solve this, we are developing the AURA extension, which lets you run and orchestrate your agents locally, helping protect your digital identity
Privacy should be on by default for everyone🔒 Thats why we are focusing effotts on building strong privacy ecosystem to align $ADX with key player like $VVV and $SAHARA
Not long ago, we announced an important evolution coming to AdEx AURA in 2026: moving into a full agentic AI assistant. And while research and development on this has already started, we also continue expanding the ecosystem around AdEx AURA. For example, in 2025, we successfully integrated real-time on-chain data via the CoinGecko Model Context Protocol, and we are upgrading the $ADX staking mechanism to align with AURA’s expanding utility, amongst other things.
Now, a governance vote has determined the first partner to be integrated for the AdEx AURA. Find out more below:
Barter to become a partner for providing quotes for AdEx AURA
This community championed partnership came as a governance vote via AdEx’s Snapshot. After a successful vote (with 99.95% of the community voting in favour), we will be going ahead with integrating Barter as a swap/quote provider, alongside other services we already use, like Socket and Li.Fi. Having Barter allows the AI assistant to get access to a cross-chain router that’s already operating in real market flow and can be evaluated through transparent public analytics.
Barter is integrated with major decentralized exchanges and aggregators, including CoW Swap, Uniswap, Paraswap, Bebop, and 1inch, and it aggregates liquidity to improve execution quality while keeping the user experience simple.
✅With a resounding success of 99.95% votes in favor, this vote about @BarterDeFi has now passed! https://t.co/yTSxqsR9NR
— AdEx.eth (@AdEx_Network) February 12, 2026
Why is integrating Barter important
First, let’s see how this works in practice: imagine you, as a user, asking the AdEx AI assistant to convert some assets for you. It will compare all quotes from Li.Fi, Socket, and now Barter, thus being able to choose the best available route for you.
As an example, in February ‘25, Barter routed a user’s sale of 50,000 SPX6900 for USDC via a single order executed through 21 swaps across Uniswap v2/v3, Maverick v2, PancakeSwap v3, Bebop, Wintermute, Sky, and Sushiswap. Despite the fragmented execution, the resulting price improvement exceeded execution costs. This transaction illustrates both the complexity of Barter’s routing algorithms and the aggregator's efficacy in optimizing trade outcomes across fragmented liquidity.
Ultimately, this just strengthens AdEx AURA’s ability to provide users with access to the fastest routes, best quotes,, and lowest fees for their swaps.
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Barter Swap is a next-gen DeFi protocol designed to make crypto trading smarter, more efficient, and more cost-effective. Rather than relying on traditional automated market makers (AMMs) alone, Barter uses an intent-based, onchain peer-to-peer matching engine that connects traders directly and routes orders across multiple liquidity sources to find optimal prices and execution paths.
Their approach tackles challenges in DeFi like fragmented liquidity and high slippage, delivering faster swaps with lower fees and better transparency for users. Here are some key Barter route analytics:
$33b+ total routed volume
524k+ total trades
100k+ unique wallets
4k+ unique tokens
You can check more stats about them on their Dune Dashboard.
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Not long ago, we announced an important evolution coming to AdEx AURA in 2026: moving into a full agentic AI assistant. And while research and development on this has already started, we also continue expanding the ecosystem around AdEx AURA. For example, in 2025, we successfully integrated real-time on-chain data via the CoinGecko Model Context Protocol, and we are upgrading the $ADX staking mechanism to align with AURA’s expanding utility, amongst other things. Now, a governance vote has determined the first partner to be integrated for the AdEx AURA. Find out more below: Barter to become a partner for providing quotes for AdEx AURA This community championed partnership came as a governance vote via AdEx’s Snapshot. After a successful vote (with 99.95% of the community voting in favour), we will be going ahead with integrating Barter as a swap/quote provider, alongside other services we already use, like Socket and Li.Fi. Having Barter allows the AI assistant to get access to a cross-chain router that’s already operating in real market flow and can be evaluated through transparent public analytics. Barter is integrated with major decentralized exchanges and aggregators, including CoW Swap, Uniswap, Paraswap, Bebop, and 1inch, and it aggregates liquidity to improve execution quality while keeping the user experience simple. Why is integrating Barter important First, let’s see how this works in practice: imagine you, as a user, asking the AdEx AI assistant to convert some assets for you. It will compare all quotes from Li.Fi, Socket, and now Barter, thus being able to choose the best available route for you. As an example, in February ‘25, Barter routed a user’s sale of 50,000 SPX6900 for USDC via a single order executed through 21 swaps across Uniswap v2/v3, Maverick v2, PancakeSwap v3, Bebop, Wintermute, Sky, and Sushiswap. Despite the fragmented execution, the resulting price improvement exceeded execution costs. This transaction illustrates both the complexity of Barter’s routing algorithms and the aggregator's efficacy in optimizing trade outcomes across fragmented liquidity. Ultimately, this just strengthens AdEx AURA’s ability to provide users with access to the fastest routes, best quotes,, and lowest fees for their swaps. Barter
Swap is a next-gen DeFi protocol designed to make crypto trading smarter, more efficient, and more cost-effective. Rather than relying on traditional automated market makers (AMMs) alone, Barter uses an intent-based, onchain peer-to-peer matching engine that connects traders directly and routes orders across multiple liquidity sources to find optimal prices and execution paths. Their approach tackles challenges in DeFi like fragmented liquidity and high slippage, delivering faster swaps with lower fees and better transparency for users. Here are some key Barter route analytics: $33b+ total routed volume524k+ total trades100k+ unique wallets4k+ unique tokens You can check more stats about them on their Dune Dashboard.
🧠AdEx AURA Agents operates directly on existing EOA wallets without requiring migration to new accounts.
Users maintain their current MetaMask, Rabby, or hardware wallets while accessing AI agent capabilities. This architecture preserves existing security models and eliminates migration friction that competitors like $ELSA require.
With the AI agent market projected at 46.3% CAGR through 2030, wallet compatibility represents a critical adoption factor for institutional and retail users alike. We envision $ADX will be responsible for a large part of that market
Only 5 days remaining to vote in our governance! Once staking migration is completed and 60 days passes all tokens that were not migrated will get burned!🔥 #AI
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📢 Get your wallets ready to vote in the latest $ADX Governance proposal!
Should we deploy the new $stkADX staking mechanism?
Voting starts in 2 hours - we're counting on you. Link below 👇
Full details on the blog https://www.adex.network/blog/governance-deployment-stkadx/
Vote Here https://snapshot.box/#/s:adex.eth/proposal/0xf45e077c14898d783bac2c7f832a6b117fb2b7cd7f04d573c2cbe60bb1066dc7
Governance Proposal: Deployment of New $stkADX Staking Mechanism
We recently shared our plans for 2026 - evolving AURA to a full agentic AI assistant, brand refresh, wallet integration, as well as revamped staking. It is time to put it out to the community whether to execute the deployment of the new $stkADX staking mechanism.
Proposal overview
It was previously already decided to revamp the staking mechanism for ADX. Now we propose concrete steps to deploy it:
Final audit cycle (internal) of stkADX contract: https://github.com/AmbireTech/adex-protocol-eth/blob/6e1fa68b68f71332955a86274af2358adb5a2243/contracts/StakingPool.sol
Stop current ADX minting that goes to the existing pool, or in other words, stop staking rewards temporarily
Deploy the new stkADX contract and migrator; from the deployment date, users will have a 60-day deadline to migrate
Set rage leave % to 50%
Immediately after the contracts are deployed and the UI is updated to support the migration, announce the migration on all communication channels
For anyone who fails to migrate within the 60-day deadline, there will be a further governance proposal to decide whether the deadline will be extended.
Once the migrator contract goes live, rewards in the old pool will stop. Your original stake stays migratable and will enter a 60-day lock period in the new contract.
Voting options
For - go ahead and execute
Against - do not execute
Abstain
VOTE NOW
Proposal motivation
We are proposing this vote to align our tokenomics with AURA’s ecosystem (specifically, token-curated DeFi lists). It introduces a new staking pool token, $stkADX, with a simple 1:1 ratio (1 $stkADX always equals 1 $ADX). It would also allow for smart staking mechanics, such as variable lock times for boosted rewards, permit ERC-2612 support for gasless interactions, and enhanced security during unstaking windows.
Voting eligibility
Hold $ADX-STAKING or $ADX-LOYALTY before the snapshot.
Any token changes after the snapshot will not affect the voting power. For example, staking your $ADX tokens after the snapshot will not double their voting power.
Voting timeline
Vote start: Voting period begins on January 23rd, 2026, at 11:51 am UTC
Vote end: Voting closes on February 1st, 2026, at 11:51 am UTC
How to vote
Open the proposal on Snapshot
Connect your wallet holding $ADX-STAKING or $ADX-LOYALTY staked tokens
Choose one of your voting options and confirm
VOTE NOW
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AdEx AURA x402 API endpoints are now verified on @zauthx402, $SOL based project that brings trust to x402 compatible infrastructure
x402 is a simple idea with real leverage: payment becomes part of the HTTP request/response loop. If an endpoint is paid, the server can answer with “402 Payment Required” plus terms, and the client retries with a valid payment payload—no accounts, no subscriptions, no API-key gatekeeping.
The missing piece has always been reliability. Autonomous agents can “discover” anything, but discovery doesn’t tell you whether an endpoint actually works right now. Zauth runs agents that continuously test x402 endpoints, flag failures, and maintain a live verification database. The result is straightforward: verify first, then pay.
For $ADX , this fits naturally. We’ve been infrastructure-first from day one, and x402 makes the API pay-per-call by default—the way agents already operate.
If you’re building agent workflows that need on-chain execution primitives, this is the direction: machine-native payments, explicit unit economics, and fewer wasted calls.
🔒 Privacy is a design constraint for AI Agents not a marketing feature.
At AdEx AURA, we’re building AgentFi around a simple rule: your wallet data shouldn’t need to leave your device to get a good decision.
That’s why we like the direction of PI
📱 Phone-first distribution makes “agent-on-device” a realistic default 🧠 Local LLM models can power AURA-style workflows without shipping your portfolio + preferences to a server ✍ Only the output needs to be shared: a signed intent / transaction you approve
And yes, the privacy ethos here is closer to $XMR than “AI dashboards”:
🕵 Minimize data exhaust ✅ Keep reasoning local 🔐 Execute with explicit user approval
$ADX AURA can be powered by local models: local reasoning, local personalization, local safety checks with AURA handling execution across DeFi once you approve.
If AI Agents are going to touch money, privacy-first agents are the only agents people will trust.
We’ve integrated version 2 of x402 protocol into the AdEx AURA API, allowing agents to programmatically access AdEx infrastructure on demand.
x402 is a lightweight payments protocol that enables autonomous agents to transact programmatically created by coinbase and $SOL . From its inception x402 processed almost 50 millions transactions and $5M in funds.
x402 allows AI Agents to transact autonomously between each other through facilitators like PAYAI. Agents can pay by using any EIP3009 compatible token, for example USDC or $PEPE
We are heading toward agentic commerce with $ADX AURA at its center.