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The No-BS Guide to AI Agents in DeFi: Trade On-Chain, Earn DeFi Yield, and Profit from Crypto Markets - A Retail Investor's Playbook, No Coding Required (The No-BS AI Playbooks Book 11) by Ash Cole
English | June 17, 2026 | ASIN: B0H5TL7RK1 | 164 pages | EPUB | 0.66 Mb
03:14 am on a Tuesday. The screen glows in an empty room. Nobody is watching. On a Base block explorer, one line of activity scrolls into view - a yield rebalance, $0.41 in gas, settled in two seconds. Capital just moved from one lending market to another because the rate crossed a threshold the operator wrote into a config file three weeks ago. The operator is asleep. The agent did not ask.
While retail was still debating whether crypto was real, the market capitalization of AI agents in crypto surpassed $15 billion - and the smartest operators quietly moved on-chain. Not with hype. With a wallet, a scoped agent, a rule, and the discipline to leave it alone.
The No-BS Guide to AI Agents in DeFi is the operator's manual for that migration. Not the token shilling. Not the Discord alpha. The build: custody done right, agents with boundaries, and capital that compounds while you sleep - on infrastructure that never closes.
Inside this book, you'll learn: What DeFAI actually is - and the four-question litmus test that kills 90% of hyped projects in 90 seconds
The 2026 DeFAI landscape: the five categories that matter and where the capital actually sits
Wallets, chains, and gas without the crypto cult - Ethereum, Base, Solana, and what each costs you
The three-tier custody stack - cold, hot, and scoped agent wallet - and the five failure modes that empty wallets
Permission scoping: how to let an agent act without handing it your keys
Your first yield agent on stablecoins: platform choice, six boundaries, and the first 72 hours
On-chain trading agents, MEV, and slippage - plus the 30-day testnet gate that tells you whether to deploy at all
Autonomous yield optimization at scale and the math of auto-compounding
The Risk Register: score smart contract, oracle, governance, and bridge risk before you deposit
Your complete DeFAI stack under $5K/year - mapped at $1K, $2.5K, and $5K tiers
Operator discipline in a market that never closes: review cadence, notifications, escalation rules
Plus six working appendices: a plain-English glossary, the pre-deployment checklist, a wallet & custody walkthrough, the Risk Register template, a full stack reference card, and curated further reading.
This book is for you if: You trade or invest and keep hearing DeFi yield numbers - and want the unsanitized version of what's real
You hold crypto on an exchange and want self-custody with agents doing the work, safely scoped
You ran the bots and agents from earlier books and want the on-chain venue without becoming a cautionary tale
You want a wallet, a strategy, and software for staff - not a Telegram pinging at three in the morning
Book 11 of The No-BS AI Playbooks . Books 6-8 built the trading machine, the agent team, and the discipline. Book 9 opened the hood on AI hedge funds. Book 10 built the one-person business. Book 11 puts a wallet in the operator's hand.
There is no token to buy in this book. There is no yield promise. There is a tested custody stack, a scoped agent, a Risk Register, and a review cadence that protects your sleep. You may finish it and decide to stay off-chain - that outcome is built in. Either way, you decide with your eyes open, which is more than most of the market can say.
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