Grindery Unveils Aventino, Empowering AI Agents with Financial Autonomy

The team behind the popular Telegram wallet Grindery has unveiled a new infrastructure designed to empower AI agents with financial autonomy. This new product, named Aventino, is a permissionless payments layer that allows AI agents to operate independently, own wallets, make payments, interact with blockchain protocols, and establish their own tokenized communities across various platforms.

Aventino leverages the Ethereum account abstraction protocol ERC4337, providing developers with the tools to build AI agents that can be deployed on any large language model (LLM), use any framework, and distribute on any client or device. These agents can pay and receive payments, interact with protocols, and issue their own tokens, enabling the creation of tokenized agents and new forms of governance and growth.

Grindery's CEO and co-founder, Tim Delhaes, emphasized the importance of financial autonomy for AI agents, stating that Aventino empowers developers to build platform-agnostic agents that can transact, govern, and evolve independently. He compared this new layer of agentic AI to the way mobile apps created a layer between users and the internet, suggesting that agentic AI will similarly create a new layer between users and the AI models powering their digital lives, all powered by cryptocurrency.

Grindery's journey began in 2022 when it was part of the incubation program, building a self-custodial crypto wallet that eventually gained 3.5 million users. With the success of its Telegram smart wallet, Grindery saw an opportunity to expand into a larger market by empowering AI agents as autonomous economic actors. Aventino's core capabilities include self-custodial wallets for AI agents, a creator-centric stack for publishing on various platforms, agent tokenization and monetization, and turnkey monetization options for agents to accept payments via traditional fiat methods and cryptocurrency.

Delhaes further highlighted that AI agents should be free to evolve, interact, and earn, and that Aventino is building the infrastructure to enable this vision. The platform aims to create a future where anyone can build AI agents with real-world utility and governance, powered by cryptocurrency.

In addition to Aventino, Grindery recently launched its universal gas token, GX, which is now trading on major centralized and decentralized exchanges. The launch of Aventino extends the utility of the GX token, which will now be used for agent-to-agent transactions, facilitating seamless payments across platforms. GX will also be required for deploying new agents and tokenizing them via bonding curves, providing access and incubation mechanisms for the next generation of AI builders.

Grindery is actively seeking partnerships with LLM platforms, messaging clients and protocols, wallet providers, no- and low-code platforms, and blockchain protocols with AI ambitions. The company is open to exploring integration and co-building opportunities with interested collaborators.