AI Agents Need Wallet Trust Profiles Before They Handle Money

Dev.to AI
Generative AI AI Safety

AI agents can now write code, deploy contracts, and execute payments. They still can't answer one question: should this wallet be trusted with money? Raw capability doesn't solve that. Neither does identity. What's missing is a verification layer that runs before settlement - one that reads wallet state, evaluates conditions, and returns a signed boolean, without private keys or human approval. Claude Opus 4.7 just hit 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified. Impressive, but meaningless if the agent can't prove trustworthiness before touching real money.