— Story / N°17 · Blockchain & Solana

The story of Auto.fun.

Turning an open-source agent framework into a launchpad anyone could use without writing code.

N°17 · BLOCKCHAIN & SOLANA2026 · 9 weeks (MVP)
01 — Two gaps, not one

Eliza Labs had the framework and the audience. What it did not have was a path for a non-developer to participate as anything more than a speculator. Building an autonomous agent still meant writing code, and the launch model that was open to everyone — a plain bonding curve — gave creators a single spike and then silence, while bots quietly took the cheap end of the curve.

02 — One flow, two deployments

We collapsed agent creation and token launch into a single description-driven flow. A creator types what the agent should do — post to a social account, watch staking yields above a threshold, move payments across chains — and the platform provisions the agent on the elizaOS framework and its paired token in the same transaction sequence.

03 — Fairer than fair

Instead of pretending a fully open launch is fair, we made the trade-off explicit: teams can reserve up to half of supply before listing purely to blunt sniping. Then liquidity-NFT mechanics route a share of ongoing swap fees back to the creator indefinitely, so an agent that stays useful keeps paying the person who built it.

04 — Open by default

Every line stayed public. An agent asking for wallet permissions is a trust problem, and the only honest answer to it is code the user can read. The first cohort brought fifteen-plus projects onto the platform — social managers, compute-credit tokens and cross-chain payment agents — using the templates, deployment scripts and monitoring shipped with the MVP.

“They built the version of this we would have needed a year to build ourselves.”
— Product lead, Eliza Labs
— Epilogue

The no-code flow and fee-routing mechanics remain the platform's core differentiators against closed-source agent tooling.