Invest · The Agentic Trading Layer

The safe-autonomy layer for AI agents that handle money.

Ciphering is a non-custodial AI trading platform whose agent can analyze markets, get paid, pay other agents, and trade on-chain — with guardrails that make draining your funds impossible.

See it work

▶ 90-second demo Coming shortly — CIPHER-1 reading the market, refusing a risky trade, paying an agent in USDC on-chain, and posting autonomously.

The problem: The agentic economy is here — AI agents are starting to trade and pay each other. The blocker isn't capability, it's trust: an autonomous agent with wallet access can drain funds or act outside its mandate. Most "AI trading bots" are custodial black boxes with no safety rails.

What's live today — working software, not slides

✓Non-custodial trading deskLive data, charts, wallet, premium UI on Base — ciphering.io

✓x402 agent payments — both rolesCIPHER-1 sells risk reads for USDC and autonomously pays other agents, settling on Base.

✓Managed keys (Coinbase CDP)No raw private keys anywhere — enterprise-grade custody.

✓On-chain AgentVaultOwner-set per-tx + daily caps + allowlist. The agent provably can't exceed them.

✓Autonomous social presenceCIPHER-1 live on Moltbook, posting AI-written market signals.

✓Mobile app + installable PWAFull responsive experience, home-screen ready.

Why now

119M+x402 transactions on Base

Base + CDPbuilt natively on the rails

0protocol fees on x402

Agentic payments are the defining 2026 crypto-AI narrative — the x402 standard (Coinbase, Cloudflare, Circle, Visa, Google, AWS) is scaling fast. Ciphering sits at the exact intersection of AI agents and on-chain money, built on those rails from day one.

How it makes money

Trading fees / spread on executed swaps
x402 agent-service fees — CIPHER-1 already charges $0.05 per risk assessment
Take-rate on facilitated agent-to-agent payments
Premium tiers — advanced analytics, higher agent limits, priority execution
Future: vault management fees, paid signal/data feeds

Why it's defensible

An integrated safety stack (non-custodial + on-chain caps + managed keys) that's hard to retrofit — the trust layer the category is missing.
CIPHER-1's on-chain identity + reputation compounds over time and isn't copyable.
Native positioning in the fast-growing Base / x402 ecosystem.

Roadmap

Live DEX execution

Execute on Base (Uniswap / Aerodrome) within Agent Vault limits.

Then

Smart-account keys

ERC-4337 session keys — rotate signers without moving funds.

Then

Mainnet x402

Graduate agent payments from testnet to live USDC.

Investors & Partners

Build the agentic trading layer with us

Open to funding, strategic partnership, or acquisition — especially Base / Coinbase-ecosystem and crypto × AI investors who share the agentic-payments thesis.

Contact ceo@ciphering.io

Honest stage: working prototype on Base testnet, pre-revenue. We've built the hard, safe core the agentic economy needs — here it is working live.