🧞 AI making crypto UX better: from Mode, HeyElsa AI, Eigen & Impossible Cloud Network

AI as DeFi's New Interface

Apr 15, 2025

Gm and happy Monday frens🖖

Let's face it: crypto UI sucks.

Imagine your grandma trying to get from ETH to Polygon. Even I can't do it sometimes (maybe I'm just stupid, idk).

But AI can solve this problem: you will be able to say "Buy me BTC now" and it will do just that. Hopefully at normal rates and without tanking your portfolio, but that's a story for another time.

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🛠️ Deep-dive: AI as DeFi's New Interface

Must know insights from the panel discussion "AI as DeFi's New Interface: The Abstraction Revolution" with:

James Ross - Co-Founder @ Mode
Dhawal - Founder @ HeyElsa AI
Nima Vaziri - Head of AI @ Eigen

Hosted by Sebastian Pfeiffer, Managing Director @ Impossible Cloud Network at Restaking & DeFAI Day in Denver.

AI can abstract DeFI

Abstraction in DeFi means simplifying complex blockchain interactions to user-friendly actions via natural language.

Users can issue straightforward commands—such as "Buy 100 USDC worth of tokens on Ethereum using my funds on Base"—without needing technical knowledge of concepts like bridging, swapping, or gas fees.

AI facilitates this by automatically interpreting intent and executing complex background processes, including wallet creation, gas-less transactions, and seamless fiat-to-crypto onboarding, significantly reducing user friction and barriers to entry.

AI makes markets more accesisable

AI-driven agents democratize financial strategies previously dominated by sophisticated traders or specialized bots. These agents continuously monitor markets to execute yield-optimizing strategies, arbitrage opportunities, and complex trades around the clock.

This empowers average users, who historically have struggled with managing risks effectively (notably, around 85% of leverage traders lose money), by providing them with professional-level trading capabilities, thus broadening participation and improving overall market liquidity and efficiency.

UX and UI will be transformed

Future DeFi interaction is expected to shift significantly away from traditional protocol-specific interfaces like Uniswap or Aave. Instead, users will engage primarily through natural language conversational interfaces or specialized AI agents.

Different users might prefer different levels of complexity: casual users favor conversational simplicity for quick actions; institutional users maintain detailed interfaces for precise, large-scale trades. Overall, the user experience will improve dramatically with seamless cross-chain interactions, gas abstraction, and minimal manual interventions.

We still have scalability and technical challenges

Widespread adoption of AI agents will likely increase transaction volume and frequency due to constant, automated opportunity detection and execution. This growth presents scalability challenges for blockchain infrastructure and influences transaction fee economics.

To manage costs sustainably, it's important to develop blockchain-native AI models tailored specifically for crypto use-cases rather than relying on expensive centralized providers. Such native models would significantly enhance decentralization, economic efficiency, and operational scalability.

Some short and long-term predictions

Short-Term (by end of 2025): Moderate progress is anticipated due to current technological and infrastructural constraints. Initial AI-agent integrations, basic natural-language transaction capabilities, and incremental enhancements in user experience are likely, but groundbreaking shifts are not expected immediately.

Long-Term (by 2028 and beyond): Highly bullish outlook foreseeing substantial advancements in AI technology and widespread adoption in DeFi. AI-driven agents are projected to handle most DeFi transactions, transforming how users engage with crypto markets. Integration of conversational and personalized AI interfaces will be commonplace, significantly increasing DeFi accessibility, user engagement, and market sophistication.