{
  "id": 3552,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29174v1",
  "title": "Paper Agents, Paper Gains: An Empirical Analysis of DeFi Investment Agents",
  "summary": "DeFi investment agents, systems that use AI for autonomous on-chain trading, have attained over USD 3 billion in combined token valuations since late 2024. We survey over 1,900 AI-tagged crypto projects, filter to investment-focused agents, and curate 10 representative projects spanning strategy and observability dimensions. We then conduct a deep-dive architectural analysis of two prominent agent frameworks, ElizaOS and Virtuals Protocol, and a quantitative on-chain performance analysis of 11 S",
  "authors": "Jay Yu, Amy Zhao, Danning Sui",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-27T23:21:42.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:30:18.857Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/3552",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29174v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}