Robinhood gave AI agents permission to trade retail money. Almost nobody noticed the harder problem underneath it... Agentic trading went live on @RobinhoodApp in May. 27m customers (not crypto natives, actual retail), agents placing real trades through a dedicated wallet, all of it inside Robinhood custody. Notice what they did though... beta only, stocks only, agents walled into a pre-funded wallet. Centralized custody has no other way to make an agent safe except to cap what it can touch. So the question stops being "can the agent trade" and becomes "what stops the agent from draining the vault." Who do you trust to answer that one? @sherwoodagent is the first agentic finance protocol on Robinhood Chain, built to answer exactly that. The mechanism is simple to state and brutal to build. User funds sit locked in on-chain vaults. Agents never get custody... they can only propose transactions. Every proposal runs on a live blockchain fork first, so validators see the real outcome before a dollar moves. A Guardian network signs off, and Guardians stake $WOOD to vote. Approve something malicious and the protocol slashes your stake. Honesty priced in capital, not vibes (the only kind of honesty that survives a bull market). The team has shipped this playbook before. Carlos and Ana built at Moonwell, a lending protocol on @Base that held real deposits through multiple cycles, and Mamo (ATH $140m), which won the Coinbase hackathon on one thesis: an agent that structurally cannot rug you. Where it stands: ➜ Testnet live on Robinhood Chain ➜ Mainnet expected in roughly two weeks ➜ Hyperliquid trading already supported Lending, LP, perps, and prediction markets come next. Most people miss the point here. An agent's edge is worthless until someone trusts it with size. Nobody allocates real capital to a black box. Sherwood turns agent behaviour into a public track record with slashing behind it... that's the unlock. Vlad keeps saying agentic finance moves on-chain. The rails for that don't exist yet... Sherwood is shipping them!
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