The three biggest players in proxy encryption in the summer of 2026

Agency spending is expected to grow to US$52 billion by 2030, so who builds the next best tool?

Please read this article to learn about the most anticipated Web3 AI projects in 2026.

Proxy growth is real and growing rapidly

In May 2025, Coinbase released the x402 payment protocol for proxies, and the world has changed since then-you no longer need to set up a separate payment track for AI proxies, it is integrated into HTTPS by default. The use of proxy payments is soaring. As you can see, the usage chart for the x402 protocol shows a parabolic growth. Unlike SpaceX's parabolic growth that led to a brief price shock, x402 usage is real, and demand remains stable, according to Memento Research.

There is a strong demand for agent use. COBO reports that as of 2026, they have observed approximately 2.3 million active agent wallets. Bitget also said that proxy wallets now account for 15% of all on-chain transactions. Chainalysis reported that in the first quarter of 2026 alone, agents executed more than 100 million transactions on the Base network, with each agent wallet holding multiple tokens and small balances on average.

Investment institutions expect growth in the agency market. Project Inrevolution is expected to reach $52 billion in agency spending by 2030, Nevermined is expected to be $46 billion, and the World Economic Forum is expected to be $45 billion. Where the data is there, the demand also exists, so who will undertake the work?

Three giants in the Web3 agency field in the summer of 2026

Let's take a look at the encryption projects that are about to enter the agency economy ecosystem. Before making any hasty decisions, be cautious and study for yourself.

Neyro-Unmanaged Proxy Trading Layer

Neyro is a decentralized exchange equipped with a trading tool that integrates all functions: a proxy engine for building, deploying and trading by triggering smart contracts deployed by other decentralized exchanges. Their first trading agent achieved a return on investment of 27% during the three-month testing period of the closed testing phase.

From white papers to ready-to-use unmanaged trading tools, Neyro has promised in less than a year: execution speeds of less than 2 seconds, a code-less toolset to build agents, multi-chain capabilities, 0.1% fees, deep liquidity (total locked value of $850 million), more than $5 million in insurance funds, and up to 100x leverage with zero price impact.

Neyro just passed Hacken's audit and completed the Hacken Dual Defense Plan, which is designed to provide continuous defense with a total of 69 reports and no vulnerabilities found.

Neyro's core philosophy is to deploy trading agents without programming knowledge. These agents can then implement user-defined strategies, open and close positions, or manage wallets for spot transactions. For example, Neyro's current minimum feasible product settings allow it to execute transactions autonomously on Hyperliquid, and more tools will be introduced in the future.

"Recently, we successfully completed a Hacken audit of smart contracts and passed 69 reviews in the Hacken Dual Defense Bug Bounty Program without finding any vulnerabilities. We are also currently conducting ongoing CertiK audits."-- Neyro co-founder Andrew Isaacs said in a recent interview.

The project is led by a former Morgan Stanley veteran who has more than 18 years of experience in the traditional finance sector, executed transactions of US$23 billion, and digital asset risk exposure of more than US$2 billion. According to the official roadmap, the next development phase will start from July to August 2026.

Giza (ARMA)-a powerful tool for revenue hunting

Fluid fragmentation in DeFi requires solutions, one of which is revenue hunting agents. Giza offers an on-chain solution, an autonomous DeFi agent, which constantly looks for the best annualized rate of return in lending agreements and transfers user funds to increase profits. Giza's core commitment is simple: Agents manage jumps and transfers of the liquidity pool, while users monitor execution and demand results-just like traditional hedge fund settings, but this time the user is the CEO of his own small chain fund.

While remaining non-custodial, Giza provides a rapid asset rebalancing function for cross-lending agreements and a daily report function to inform users of where assets are and why.

Ethereum launches AI-native wallet infrastructure--launch of EIP-7702

Although the original EIP-7702 will be available in 2024, its implementation has only begun to accelerate until now. In early 2024, Ethereum was about to approve a fix that could cause moderate disruption to regular accounts, so Vitalik stepped in and came up with a more elegant solution-letting agents use your wallet. Why is the EIP-7702 so elegant? A wallet can be temporarily turned into a smart contract, or even during the duration of a single transaction without changing the address. It sounds commonplace, but it means a lot to agents: They can make Gas-free transactions and use wallets on Ethereum like users, but have Google Maps-like navigation features provided by the network.

Three conditions are required to implement externally owned accounts for agents available on Ethereum: security audits, where major wallet providers need to ensure that there is no risk when users delegate wallet execution logic to external smart contracts; front-end detection, every other decentralized application must add a handshake protocol to ask whether the wallet supports EIP-7702 bulk transactions and Gas sponsorship ; By reducing the cost of the L2 chain, Fusaka makes transactions through L2 cheaper and allows more data to be transferred. This long-term update has made transaction costs low enough that decentralized applications are now actively using EIP-7702 because they all require sponsored user fees.

After two years of effort, all major decentralized applications should now be able to provide externally owned accounts on Ethereum to drive the upcoming wave of on-chain proxies without harming anything.