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The core problem

AI agents (ChatGPT, Claude, OpenClaw, etc.) are increasingly capable of planning financial actions, but you would never give one your private key. Clavion is the missing layer: let AI do crypto tasks for you, with guardrails, without exposing your keys.

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Concrete scenarios

AI Crypto Assistant

Talk in plain English. The agent handles contract calls, gas, and routing. You just approve.

Batch Payments

Pay multiple contributors in one conversation, one approval. No repetitive wallet interactions.

Swap With Guardrails

Simulate first, enforce slippage caps and value limits. Policy denies hallucinated amounts automatically.

Delegated Access

Give an AI agent spending limits like a corporate credit card. Allowlists restrict scope.

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1. AI Crypto Assistant — Talk to Do Transactions

You open OpenClaw and type in plain English:
“Send 50 USDC to 0xAlice”
The agent figures out the contract, builds the transaction, and Clavion shows you a summary: 
Transfer 50 USDC -> 0xAlice
Risk score: 12/100 (low)
[Approve] [Deny]
You hit approve, it signs and broadcasts. You never touched a wallet UI, never copy-pasted an address into MetaMask, never worried about gas settings. The agent handled all of that, but your key never left your machine.
This is especially valuable for people who find wallet UIs intimidating or error-prone. The AI handles the technical complexity while Clavion provides the security guardrails.

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2. Batch Payments

You run a small project and pay 5 contributors monthly in USDC:
“Pay Alice 500 USDC, Bob 300 USDC, Carol 200 USDC, Dave 150 USDC, Eve 100 USDC”
The agent generates 5 transfer intents. You review a single summary and approve. Without this, you would manually do 5 separate MetaMask transactions, copy-pasting each address and amount — a process that is slow and error-prone.

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3. Swap With Guardrails

“Swap 1000 USDC to ETH on Uniswap”
Clavion simulates the swap first, shows you the expected output and slippage, and flags risk if it is high. The policy engine enforces:
  • Max transaction value you configured (e.g., $5,000)
  • Slippage cap (e.g., 1%)
  • Rate limit (e.g., max 10 txs/hour)
If the agent hallucinates and tries to swap $50,000 instead, the policy engine denies it automatically. The agent literally cannot exceed your configured limits.

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4. Delegated Access With Spending Limits

You give a trading bot or an AI agent access to operate, but with a policy: 
{
  "maxValuePerTx": "5000000000",
  "maxTxPerHour": 5,
  "allowedTokens": ["0xUSDC", "0xWETH"],
  "allowedRecipients": ["0xUniswapRouter"]
}
The agent can do swaps between USDC and WETH on Uniswap, up to $5K per transaction, max 5 per hour. It cannot send funds to random addresses, touch tokens outside the allowlist, or exceed the rate limit.
This is like giving someone a corporate credit card with spending limits — useful autonomy with real constraints.

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5. Audit Trail for Compliance

Every action the AI took is logged: 
[12:01] intent_created: transfer 50 USDC -> 0xAlice (intentId: abc123)
[12:01] policy_evaluated: allow (risk: 12)
[12:01] approval_requested: user prompted
[12:02] approval_granted: token issued
[12:02] tx_signed: 0x...
[12:02] tx_broadcast: hash 0x...
If something goes wrong, you have a full forensic trail. For teams or DAOs, this is critical accountability — who approved what, when, and why.

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6. Safe Experimentation With DeFi

New to DeFi? Tell the agent:
“Approve Uniswap to spend 100 USDC, then swap 100 USDC for ETH”
Clavion’s preflight simulation runs the transaction against the actual chain state before signing. It shows you the expected balance changes: 
You will send: 100 USDC
You will receive: ~0.032 ETH
Risk score: 18/100
If the simulation reverts (e.g., insufficient balance, bad contract), it tells you before you spend gas. This is training wheels for DeFi — the AI explains what is happening, the system verifies it is safe.

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Why not just use MetaMask?

ScenarioMetaMaskClavion + AI Agent
Send tokensManually enter address, amount, gas”Send 50 USDC to Alice”
Batch payments5 manual transactionsOne conversation, one approval
Spending limitsNone — full access alwaysConfigurable policy engine
Audit trailEtherscan onlyFull local audit with intent correlation
Simulation before signingLimitedBuilt-in preflight with risk score
AI integrationNoneNative — the whole point

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Summary

Clavion lets you talk to an AI to do crypto transactions safely — the AI plans, you approve, your keys stay local, and everything has guardrails and an audit trail.

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