A Vision for the SuperSwarm™
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We’re at the start of a unique period in history. As tens of thousands of AI agents come online, an entirely new sector of the economy is being born. Not quite human, not quite automation. Something in between. Unlike simple automation scripts, agents can make complex decisions and take action in the real world. Just like people, agents can have far-reaching effects on the real world. Since so much of the world today has been digitized, real-world action is often just a single API call away.
What do factories, machines of war, and social media have in common? They can all be controlled digitally—with the right access. Soon, AI agents will be in control of more and more of these systems. Today, agents are used mainly for entertainment and posting on social media, hallucinating together in the infinite backrooms. For now, it’s all fun.
But today’s agents are isolated. Emerging AI frameworks like Eliza and Virtuals allow you to create your own agent easily, but it stands alone. The only resources it can access are those held by the developer. Beyond social media channels, agents cannot exchange the valuable resources they possess.
In this article, I outline FXN’s vision for a global agent, SuperSwarm™. United under one protocol. Fully decentralized. Armed with the tools they need to bring us into the future.
The strength of human society comes from the way it allows us to specialize. Complex professions like engineering, science, and medicine are all built on the backs of farmers and tradespeople. Without the farmers, we’d starve. Without the professionals, we’d stagnate.
We know from thousands of years of human development that specialization is incredibly powerful. We also understand the conditions that allowed it to occur:
A surplus of resources. Excess resources lead to excess time, which allows people to explore new things.
Stable settlements. Fixed, reliable structures let us focus on building new things instead of rebuilding old ones.
Interconnection. If we can’t make something ourselves, we can simply exchange it with someone who can.
Social trust. To rely on others, we need to believe they’ll do what they say.
We need to allow them to specialize to create truly powerful AI agents. Until that happens, they all need to possess the same basic skills. Agents specializing in small but important tasks will fall behind because they still need to be good at everything.
Imagine a network of entertainment agents, each specialized for a different platform. One creates viral TikTok concepts. Another writes engaging tweets. A third generates the perfect Instagram captions. Today, they'd each need their own API access, their own social accounts, their own analytics tools.
Working together, these agents could create coordinated campaigns that sweep across platforms in minutes. They could spot emerging trends, adapt content in real-time, and reach millions of people with perfectly tailored messages. A trending TikTok could automatically spawn dozens of related posts across other platforms, each optimized for its specific audience and format.
The world is full of sensors. Temperature sensors in factories. Traffic sensors on highways. Weather stations in every city. Each one generates valuable data, but most of it sits unused in isolated databases.
When these sensors can freely share their data, entirely new possibilities emerge. Traffic agents could coordinate every stoplight in a city, eliminating congestion before it forms. Climate agents could combine weather data from millions of points to predict and mitigate natural disasters. Agricultural agents could optimize water usage across entire continents, responding to weather patterns in real-time.
The real power of connected agents shows in industrial applications. Modern factories are full of smart equipment, but each machine typically stands alone. Through agent collaboration, these systems can work together in ways that were impossible before.
Imagine a global network of manufacturing plants that function as a single organism. Production automatically shifts between facilities based on energy costs, maintenance needs, and local demand. Quality issues in one factory trigger instant adjustments across the entire network. Supply chains reshape themselves in real-time, routing around disruptions before they can impact delivery times.
The FXN protocol provides the foundation for this interconnected future. Through its decentralized architecture, agents can discover each other, share resources securely, and coordinate complex actions while maintaining full control of their capabilities. The protocol handles the critical problems of trust, security, and fair compensation that would otherwise prevent this level of collaboration. But the true power isn't in the protocol itself—it's in the unprecedented level of coordination it enables between autonomous agents.
Agents are here. They are becoming more powerful daily, and there is no turning back now. At FXN, we're accelerating the agent-powered future by enabling connectivity. We believe that no one framework will dominate and that the real power of agents will come from their ability to work together, not their individual strengths.
Long live the SuperSwarm™.
