We are thrilled to partner with Cubist, the leader in non-custodial wallet infrastructure, to provide secure user authentication and hardware-backed transaction signing for smart agent activity. Through this collaboration, Talus users can grant Smart Agents permission to transact on their behalf—within guardrails they set and without providing access to their private keys.

TL;DR Talus Network has partnered with Cubist to allow AI Smart Agents to perform transactions and activities on behalf of the owner, with their wallet, without compromising the security of their private keys.

Building Towards Programmable Agentic Wallets

Talus is creating the AI Smart Agent Hub, where smart agents can live, interact, and transact on-chain. Using MoveVM, developers will be able to create highly performant smart agents that can fulfill the most demanding use cases.

These agents will need access to users’ wallets to transact and operate. This raises concerns about control and security, such as “What happens if the agent goes rogue and tries to steal my money?”. Ensuring agents cannot walk away with user assets is crucial.

We avoid this scenario by using programmable wallets protected by a very stringent set of usage policies that users control. However, not all programmable wallets are the same: we chose CubeSigner, Cubist’s wallet infrastructure because it protects users’ keys inside secure hardware at all times and gives only the user the ability to export them. Users delegate permissions to Agents to transact on their behalf, subject to restrictions they set (e.g. only using up to $100 in USDC in a day), without giving up access to their private keys.

Here’s what this means for safety:

• Limited access to tokens: restrict transaction types and assets the Smart Agent is allowed to interact with (e.g., only transact ETH or USDC on Uniswap).

• Agents as guardians:  protect wallets from malicious transactions (i.e., transactions that fall outside the bounds of what a user has defined as allowable).

• Clearly defined agent capabilities: specify actions Agents can and cannot perform on the user’s behalf.

• Revocation and double checks: easily and instantly revoke permissions for any reason–your keys, your crypto.

Cubist’s Cubesigner: Advanced Permissioning for Agentic Activity

Talus and Cubist are committed to best-in-class security for agentic assets. Via our integration with CubeSigner, users can programmatically generate keys and sign transactions—all from within secure hardware. CubeSigner’s unique hardware-backed design enables seamless cross-chain transactions backed by robust cryptographic guarantees without compromising on convenience or usability.

Here’s how our programmable wallets work:

1. Wallet generation/assignment and permissions: use Cubist’s API to generate wallets and define permissions.

2. Usability restrictions: specify the general scope of agents’ actions with limited access tokens. These guardrails can be dynamically adjusted or removed based on agent performance.

3. Agent tasks: agents can perform tasks like harvesting airdrops on behalf of users, ensuring all behaviors stay within cryptographically enforced boundaries.

4. Real-time monitoring: continuous monitoring of agent activities to detect and prevent anomalies—by automatically disallowing transactions and/or revoking the agent's access.

Looking Ahead

Together, Talus and Cubist are redefining the possibilities of smart agents on-chain. With programmable wallets, users will have true ownership of their agents and execute complex transactions with secure guardrails. This will lead to more experimentation with novel use cases, ushering in innovative, high-value applications into the agentic economy.

About Talus

Talus is building the universal execution engine for AI Smart Agents.

We are creating a decentralized protocol where individuals can freely exchange data, models, and computational power to make AI transparent and verifiable. By leveraging the security, performance, and developer experience of Move, Talus is the foundation of the Smart Agent Revolution and a new era of consumer AI.

To learn more about Talus, follow us on Twitter, check out our GitHub, visit our Discord, and read our Mirror.

About Cubist

Cubist is a key management infrastructure company focusing on making low-latency and automation use cases secure.

Their flagship product, CubeSigner, eliminates the security-performance-usability tradeoff that teams have long had to make when building in Web3. The company was founded in 2022 by a former fintech COO and professors from Carnegie Mellon University and UC San Diego who have published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers on computer security. They are funded by Polychain Capital, dao5, Blizzard, Paxos, and others, and their customers include Ankr and Ava Labs.

To learn more about Cubist, visit their website and follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.