Celestia launches Eden high-performance EVM chain to explore on-chain transaction demand for AI agents.

PANews October 16 news: Celestia announced the launch of Eden, a high-performance EVM chain built on Celestia and oriented toward experiments in the agent economy, aimed at studying agents' on-chain behavior and their demand for blockspace.

Celestia stated that Eden's first experiment is the closed beta of @botfunHQ, in which agents can issue tokens and trade around narratives created by one another. During the experiment, every inference call is paid on-chain via x402, and Eden at one point became one of the x402 chains with the highest transaction count.

According to the introduction, Eden is built using the Evolve Stack, uses Celestia for data availability, and is compatible with existing Solidity contracts, Hardhat, Foundry, and EVM development tools such as Ethers/Viem.