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Ember AI
Techstars '24Broomfield, US · Founded 2023 · 10 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Ember AI provides infrastructure for autonomous agents that manage cryptocurrency and DeFi strategies, enabling users to delegate wallet permissions for automated yield optimization, position management, and trading across blockchain networks.
Also known as EmberAGI · EmberAI Inc.
Investors · 1
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Ember AI develops infrastructure that lets AI agents execute decentralized finance (DeFi) actions directly from a user's own wallet. Users browse a marketplace of curated agent strategies and enable them without transferring custody: funds remain in the user's wallet while agents act under delegated, policy-bound permissions. Published strategies from the Ember team include Pendle Fixed Yield (scanning PT markets, reallocating capital, compounding returns and rolling maturities), USDai Allocation (optimizing stablecoin yield across chains while maximizing USDai exposure), and an Active LP Manager that redistributes liquidity-provision position ranges based on market activity. Prediction markets, yap-to-earn, presale qualification, and user-created strategies are listed as forthcoming.
Delegation is implemented with EIP-7702 and EIP-7710, with safeguards including revocability, value caps, protocol- and token-specific execution limits, and time caps. Agents carry on-chain identity and reputation via ERC-8004, and curators publishing strategies to the marketplace are vetted on safety and reputation. Agents handle the full position lifecycle, including checking, claiming and acting on airdrops, and because execution occurs from the user's wallet, XP and points accrue to that wallet as they would with manual activity. An onchain execution layer supports privacy-preserving action and delegation creation without exposing user intent or identity.
On the developer side, Ember AI offers Vibekit (Arbitrum Vibekit), a toolkit for building autonomous DeFi agents, alongside an Onchain Actions MCP server providing a unified interface for cross-chain DeFi operations, an Agent Node config-driven framework supporting A2A communication and x402 payments, a modular plugin system for protocol integration, and SDKs in TypeScript and Rust. Developers can mint ERC-8004 agents that send and receive x402 payments and publish them to the strategy marketplace.
Business model
Ember AI operates a two-sided model: an end-user marketplace of agent strategies executed from users' own wallets, and developer infrastructure (Vibekit, MCP server, SDKs, plugin system) used to build and publish those agents.
Traction
The product is available in beta with three live Ember Team strategies (Pendle Fixed Yield, USDai Allocation, Active LP Manager) and further categories listed as coming soon. The EmberAGI GitHub organization hosts 25 repositories; the flagship Arbitrum Vibekit repository has 53 stars and 60 forks.
Latest developments
A $1M Trailblazer 2.0 fund for Vibekit contributions, launched by Arbitrum, is live, and the company lists partner programs with Horizen Builders and the Ritual Foundation. Recent repository activity includes an Agent Node/A2A extension (a2a-engram), an ApeChain agents fork of Vibekit, and continued work on the TypeScript SDK and Vibekit.
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Market position
Ember AI presents itself as execution infrastructure for autonomous DeFi agents, working with ecosystem partners including Arbitrum, Horizen and Ritual.
Positioning emphasizes non-custodial execution — funds never leave the user's wallet — combined with on-chain enforceable and revocable delegation limits, vetted curators and ERC-8004 agent reputation, attribution of XP and points to the user's own wallet, and privacy-preserving onchain execution.
Technology
The core of the platform is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that orchestrates actions across multiple DeFi protocols, connecting agents, data and logic for cross-protocol execution. Agent permissioning uses EIP-7702 and EIP-7710 constrained delegation with revocability, value caps, protocol/token scoping and time caps; agent identity and reputation use ERC-8004; agent-to-agent payments use x402. Additional components include Agent Node (config-driven agent framework with A2A communication and composable workflows), a modular plugin system for protocol integration, Arbitrum Vibekit, TypeScript and Rust SDKs, and a privacy-preserving onchain execution layer. Public repositories are maintained in TypeScript, Python, Rust, Solidity, JavaScript and Elixir.
Go-to-market
Distribution combines a self-serve beta product with a curated strategy marketplace, open-source developer tooling on GitHub, documentation and a playground for the MCP server, and ecosystem partnerships that route grant support to builders. Community channels include X, Discord and Telegram. A $1M Trailblazer 2.0 fund for Vibekit contributions is promoted on the site.
DeFi traders seeking to automate trading strategies, DeFi users wanting portfolio management and automated insights, developers building financial applications, and "vibecoders" using AI agents to execute DeFi strategies.
Geography
Operates online across multiple blockchain networks; partner ecosystems cited include Arbitrum, Horizen and Ritual.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsEmber AI collaborates with the Horizen Builders Program and the Ritual Foundation so that developers building with Ember AI and Vibekit can access partner foundation grant support.
Arbitrum's Trailblazer Fund 2.0 initiative provides a $1M fund supporting contributions to Ember AI's Vibekit toolkit; qualifying community contributions may receive grant support.
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Ember AI listed three new Ember Team strategies on its marketplace — Pendle Fixed Yield, USDai Allocation and Active LP Manager — alongside a beta of the wallet-native agent product.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Ember AIemberai.xyz · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Ember AI do?
- Ember AI builds wallet-native AI agents and developer tooling for automated DeFi execution across protocols and chains.
- Who are Ember AI's investors?
- Ember AI's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Ember AI headquartered?
- Ember AI is headquartered in Broomfield, US.