Halliday launched the first AI agent workflow protocol, achieving one-click automation of Smart Contract development and management

Halliday, an AI work solution, announces the first AI agent workflow protocol (Agentic Workflow Protocol), which enables AI agents to securely interact with blockchain applications, eliminating the need to write smart contracts by hand. For the first time, this innovative protocol enables programmable workflows that enable AI agents to act autonomously under strict and immutable security specifications.

Never write a smart contract again.

Introducing the first agentic workflow protocol. pic.twitter.com/MdqvkkNGpe

— Halliday (@HallidayHQ) February 20, 2025

Halliday received lead investment from a16z and Hashed

As the first AI agent workflow protocol, Halliday gives developers the opportunity to assign tasks to autonomous systems, thereby creating groundbreaking applications in minutes.

Rooddata data shows that Halliday's seed round in 2022 was supported by investment institutions such as a16z and Hashed, and partnered with protocols such as ApeChain and Story Protocol.

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Smart Contract development is challenging

Regarding the origin of smart contracts, Halliday pointed out that with the massive expansion of blockchain, infrastructure, and on-chain services, developers are trapped in endless architecture writing, protocol maintenance, service updates, and integration, making the manual writing of Smart Contracts outdated and not cost-effective.

The development process of traditional Smart Contracts is lengthy, costly, and inflexible, and developers often need to go through more than six months of audits and updates to support a new feature, and may even have vulnerabilities.

However, he believes that Halliday's new protocol eliminates these limitations, developers will no longer need to write new Smart Contracts for each application scenario, simplifying development through a unified programming model, significantly reducing the construction cost of backend infrastructure.

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Improve the integration efficiency of blockchain applications

As blockchain technology becomes more widespread, developers are facing the challenge of integrating decentralized applications (dApps) into different chains, protocols, and services. This complexity often requires development teams to spend several months on integration and infrastructure construction, not to mention the innovation of core products.

At this point, Halliday's AI agent workflow protocol provides an advanced programming mode, allowing developers to customize workflows on the chain, thereby shortening development cycles and reducing operational burdens.

Operation mode of AI proxy workflow

Halliday introduced Agentic Workflows through a unified programming model, allowing developers to customize the operations and processes of AI systems, agents, and software on the blockchain, enabling them to autonomously and automatically perform operations and constructions on behalf of developers, while ensuring security and compliance.

This enables developers to automate on-chain operations, including contract or data system deployment, operation and monitoring, gas fee management, multi-chain integration, revenue maximization, and asset management, allowing AI agents to execute blockchain transactions within preset and authorized conditions, thus realizing the security mechanism of "Zero Trust AI Delegation (Zero-trust)".

Halliday allows developers to set up workflows using familiar programming languages instead of writing the underlying contract code. In addition, built-in integration tools eliminate the tedious process of customizing infrastructure, and the protocol will assist in the execution logic across multiple services and blockchains:

For example, when users use our premier app, Halliday Payments, AI agents can assist with fiat-to-crypto conversions, cross-chain and asset transactions, automating the entire process according to the workflow.

Promote the convergence of blockchain and AI era

Griffin Dunaif, CEO of Halliday, said, "By moving from Smart Contract development to agent workflows, we are bringing blockchain into the era of AI agents."

This is a major breakthrough for businesses looking to integrate AI with blockchain, allowing developers to develop applications in hours instead of years.

Currently, Halliday's AI agent workflow protocol is still in early beta and is planned to be gradually rolled out in the second quarter of this year. Developers can apply to join the Early Trial Program to get early access to this innovative technology.

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