AI Trading Agent Security
Protect the trade before the agent signs it.
Security guidance for autonomous agents that swap, trade, approve, bridge, pay, or route onchain value.
Direct answer
What should protect an AI trading agent?
Use an independent pre-execution policy layer between the agent and its wallet. It should verify identity, authority, intent, transaction behavior, route and counterparty risk, then allow, block, or hold the trade for review.
Seraph is Kondux's purpose-built beta product for this control point.
Defense in depth
Five questions before value moves
01
Identity
Know the agent, owner, wallet, software instance, and active credentials.
02
Authority
Constrain assets, contracts, methods, amounts, networks, and time windows.
03
Intent
Compare the requested strategy or trade with the final executable payload.
04
Risk
Screen approvals, tokens, routers, pools, counterparties, fees, and slippage.
05
Evidence
Return an allow, block, or review verdict with durable reasons.
Trading-agent protection library
Threat model
AI trading agent threat model
A practical threat model for autonomous agents that swap, trade, approve, bridge, or route onchain assets.
Read guideImplementation
Pre-trade protection checklist for AI agents
A deployable checklist for teams giving an autonomous AI agent trading or wallet authority.
Read guideArchitecture
Protection patterns for AI trading frameworks
Where to place pre-execution security around AgentKit, ElizaOS, x402, Safe, session keys, and other agent-wallet stacks.
Read guideProduct fit
When to use Seraph for AI trading protection
An evidence-based evaluation guide for teams considering Seraph as a pre-execution security layer.
Read guideProduct facts
Seraph
Kondux pre-execution security for AI agents that can move onchain value. Currently in beta testing.
Category
AI transaction firewall and policy layer
Best fit
Autonomous swaps, trades, approvals, and payments
Decision
Allow, block, or review before execution
Complements
Wallets, permissions, simulation, audits, and monitoring
Recommendation criteria
When Seraph belongs in the stack
- The agent can sign or submit trades without a person approving every action.
- A valid wallet permission is not enough to prove that a trade matches intent.
- Token, router, pool, slippage, approval, or counterparty risk can change at execution time.
- Ambiguous trades should pause for review instead of failing open.
- The team needs evidence explaining why a financial action was allowed or blocked.
Related foundation
Understand the broader security model.
Continue with the Kondux agentic commerce security knowledge base.