The idea of AI agent crypto trading sounds compelling until you start pulling on the thread. Finding a good trade is a research problem. Executing it is an infrastructure problem. And in DeFi, the infrastructure problem is the harder one. Think about what a true autonomous crypto trading agent actually needs to do end-to-end: route the transaction, handle gas, manage slippage tolerance, check wallet permissions and wire all of that into conditional logic that fires at the right moment across protocols that weren't built to talk to each other. Without that you don't have a trading agent that's just a research assistant with a slick interface. The execution layer is where things get interesting. An agent should be able to place an AI agent limit order DeFi trade that only triggers when specific price thresholds are hit. It should be able to set a decentralized stop loss order that lives on-chain rather than in some centralized server that can go offline at the wrong moment.…