Top 3 Upcoming Big Movers in Agentic Crypto Space of Summer 2026

Agentic Spend is projected to grow to $52B by 2030, so who built the next best tools for it? Read this article to find out about the most anticipated Web3 AI projects of 2026. 

Agentic Growth is real and it moves fast 

After the x402 payment protocol for agents was released in May of 2025 by Coinbase, the world changed — you no longer need separate payment rails for AI Agents, it’s already baked into HTTPS by default. 

Use of agentic payments is skyrocketing. As you can see, the x402 protocol use chart is parabolic. Unlike with SpaceX where parabolic growth led to momentary shock in price, the x402 use is real and according to Memento Research demand remains steady. 

Agentic use is in high demand. COBO reports they see around 2.3 million active agentic wallets as of 2026, and Bitget says agentic wallets are now responsible for 15% of all on-chain transactions. 

Chainalysis reports that agents transacted roughly 100M+ transactions over Base alone in Q1 of 2026, with the average agentic wallet holding multiple coin types and small balances. 

Investment firms expect the agentic market to grow. Involution projects $52B agentic spend by 2030, Nevermined — $46B, World Economic Forum — $45B. Numbers are there, demand’s there, who’s going to do the work? 

Top 3 Big Movers in Agentic Web3 Space | Summer 2026 

Let’s take a look at crypto projects which are about to venture into the Agentic Economy. Be mindful and DYOR before making any hasty decisions. 

Neyro – Non-Custodial Agentic Trading Layer

Neyro is a DEX with a trading tool to unite them all: an agentic engine to build, deploy and transact by triggering smart-contracts deployed by other DEXes. Their first trading agent scored 27% ROI over a 3-month testing period during the closed beta stage. 

From whitepaper to a live non-custodial trading tool in under a year, Neyro promises: <2s execution, no-code toolset to build agents, multichain capabilities, 0.1% fees, deep liquidity with $850M TVL, $5M+ Insurance Fund and up to x100 leverage with zero price impact. 

Source: neyro.network

Neyro moved past the Hacken audit just recently and completed the Hacken Dual Defence program, aimed at providing continuous defence, with 69 reports and 0 vulnerabilities found. 

The core idea of Neyro is being able to deploy trading agents without prior coding knowledge. Said agents can then execute strategies pre-defined by the user, open and close trades, or manage a wallet for spot trading. For instance, the current Neyro MVP setup allows it to execute trades on Hyperliquid autonomously, with more tools coming in the future. 

“Recently, we successfully completed the Hacken audit of our smart-contract, and passed 69 reviews with 0 vulnerabilities found at Hacken DualDefence bug bounty program. Currently we're doing an ongoing CertiK audit as well” — Andrew Isaacs, co-founder of Neyro at a recent Hackernoon interview. 

The project is being led by an ex-Morgan Stanley veteran with 18+ years in TradFi, $23B in executed transactions and $2B+ in digital asset exposure. 

According to the official roadmap, the next development phase is about to start in July-August of 2026.

X: https://x.com/Neyro_network

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neyro-network/

Website: neyro.network

Giza (ARMA) – The Yield-Hunting Workhorse

Fractured liquidity in DeFi requires a solution, and one of them is a yield-hunting agent. Instead of manually looking for the best APY, Giza offers an on-chain solution — an autonomous DeFi agent, which constantly looks up the best offers across lending protocols, and moves user money to increase profits.

The key promise of Giza is simple: agents manage liquidity pool hops and transfers, while users watch over the execution and demand results — much like in traditional hedge fund settings, but this time the user is the CEO of his own little on-chain fund. 

While being non-custodial, Giza offers quick rebalancing of assets across lending protocols, and a daily report function to tell where the assets go this time and why. 

X: https://x.com/gizatechxyz

Github: https://github.com/gizatechxyz

Website: gizatech.xyz

Ethereum is kicking in with AI-Native Wallet infra — EIP-7702 Rollouts 

While the initial EIP-7702 saw the light of day in 2024, its implementation started to catch up only now. In early 2024 Ethereum was about to approve a fix that would wreak moderate havoc on regular accounts, and so Vitalik stepped in and proposed a much more elegant solution — let agents use your wallet. 

Why is EIP-7702 elegant? A wallet can temporarily become smart-contract, even for a duration of a single transaction, without changing the address. Sounds boring, but for agents this is a big thing: they can do gasless transactions, and use wallets on Ethereum just like users do, but with a sort of Google Maps from the network.  

It took 3 things to make Agentic EOA available on Ethereum: 

• Secure Auditing: major wallet providers spend time to ensure there’s no catch to when a user delegates wallet execution logic to an external smart contract. 

• Front-End Detection (EIP-5792): every other dApp had to add a handshake asking if said wallet supports 7702 batch transactions and gas sponsorship.

• Costs reduction for L2 chains: Fusaka made transactions via L2 cheaper and allowed them to haul more data. This long-term update made transactions cheap enough for dApps to aggressively use EIP-7702 only now, since they all need to sponsor user fees. 

2 sweaty years later, and all major dApps should be able to offer EOA on Ethereum to power the upcoming wave of on-chain agents without compromising everything. 

EIP: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7702

Github: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-7702.md

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