The problem Agent CFO solves

Agent CFO

An autonomous AI agent that procures, pays for, and manages decentralized infrastructure — without a human in the loop.

🔗 Live demo: ASK ME!
📁 Repo: https://github.com/chinesepowered/hack-ethdenver26

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The Problem

Decentralized infrastructure is fragmented. An institution trying to procure reliable storage or compute across DePIN networks has to manually compare providers across a dozen protocols, evaluate contradictory reviews, negotiate allocations, execute payments chain by chain, and remember to renew next month. There is no autonomous buyer. There is no audit trail. There is no institutional-grade tooling.

We built it.

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What Agent CFO Does

Give the agent a goal in plain language:

"Find me reliable decentralized storage, at least 500GB, budget 1,000 tokens. Prioritize uptime over cost."

The agent does the rest — autonomously:

1. Discovers 12 DePIN providers across 5 networks, each with real profiles, reviews, pricing, and uptime history
2. Evaluates them using LLM reasoning — reading contradictory reviews, flagging red flags, identifying tradeoffs
3. Plans an allocation across the highest-scoring providers, with explicit reasoning for every percentage
4. Executes on-chain payments across each relevant network in the same run
5. Attests every decision — evaluation, payment, replan — to an immutable on-chain audit trail
6. Schedules next-month renewals autonomously so the infrastructure position continues without human intervention

No wallet pop-ups. No manual confirm. Goal in, execution out.

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What Makes It Real

The agent genuinely reasons. Provider profiles contain deliberate contradictions — strong historical uptime but recent review decline, competitive pricing but no SLA, a team with great pedigree but only 50 customers. The LLM works through these tradeoffs out loud in the reasoning stream, producing decisions it can explain and revise.

It handles disruption mid-execution. Inject a price spike, provider degradation, reputation alert, or budget shock while the agent is running. It detects the disruption, re-reasons over the updated context, and produces an adapted allocation plan — all logged to the audit trail. The demo includes chaos controls specifically so judges can break it live and watch it recover.

The audit trail is real. Every agent action is attested to Hedera Consensus Service with a sequence number and action type. The immutable record proves not just what the agent did, but that it adapted — disruption and replan are both on-chain.

Financial privacy is enforced at the protocol level. The agent's P&L and per-chain spend breakdown are stored as a Daml contract on Canton. The

owner

is the sole signatory — no other party can read the financials, not at the application level but at the protocol level.

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Technical Architecture

Component	What it does	Technology
Provider discovery & evaluation	LLM reasoning over 12 DePIN provider profiles	0G Compute (Qwen 2.5 7B) / Cerebras fallback
Multi-chain payments	Executes purchases on 5 networks autonomously	Hedera HTS · ADI · Kite x402 · 0G · Base
Immutable audit trail	Every decision attested with sequence number	Hedera Consensus Service
Autonomous renewal scheduling	Next-month renewals set up during same run	Hedera Schedule Service
Private financial ledger	Spend, P&L, per-chain breakdown — owner-only	Canton (Daml) with in-memory fallback
Agent reputation scoring	Transaction history → anomaly detection → score	0G Compute AI inference
Real-time blockchain monitoring	On-chain event stream feeds agent context	QuickNode Streams
Live dashboard	Reasoning feed, portfolio, chaos controls, audit trail	React + WebSocket

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The Demo

The dashboard is live at https://agent-cfo-production.up.railway.app.

Hit Execute Goal to watch the agent reason in real time. When it finishes, use the Chaos Controls to inject a disruption — price spike, provider degradation, budget shock — and watch it adapt. Every run is different because the reasoning is real, not scripted.

The dashboard shows: live reasoning stream · allocation portfolio · activity feed with on-chain tx links · HCS audit trail with sequence numbers · scheduled renewals · reputation score · anomaly alerts · Canton privacy ledger.

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Why This Matters

DePIN is infrastructure. Infrastructure procurement at institutional scale requires autonomous agents that can evaluate, commit, and self-manage — not dashboards where humans click approve. Agent CFO is the earliest working version of what that looks like: an agent with genuine judgment, a real payment capability, and an audit trail that satisfies compliance requirements.

The multi-chain architecture isn't a demo gimmick — it reflects the actual state of DePIN, where the best storage p