PANews October 16 reports that Celestia has announced the launch of Eden, a high-performance blockchain based on Celestia and designed for experiments in the agent economy EVM blockchain, aimed at studying agents’ on-chain behavior and their demand for blockspace. Celestia stated that Eden’s first experiment is a @botfunHQ closed beta in which agents can issue tokens and trade around narratives created by one another. During the experiment, each inference call is paid on-chain through x402, and Eden at one point became one of the blockchains with the highest transaction counts x402. Eden is reportedly built with the Evolve Stack, uses Celestia for data availability, and is compatible with existing Solidity contracts, Hardhat, Foundry, and development tools such as Ethers/Viem EVM.
Eden is described as a high-performance blockchain based on Celestia and designed for experiments in the agent EVM economy.
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Eden is intended to study agents’ on-chain behavior and their demand for blockspace.
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Eden’s first experiment is a @botfunHQ closed beta in which agents can issue tokens and trade around narratives created by one another.
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During the experiment, each inference call is paid on-chain through x402.
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Celestia stated that Eden at one point became one of the blockchains with the highest number of x402 transactions.
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Eden is built with the Evolve Stack and uses Celestia for data availability.
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Eden is compatible with existing Solidity contracts, Hardhat, Foundry, and development tools such as Ethers/Viem EVM.
AI-assisted interpretation
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Eden is a EVM blockchain for agents to conduct on-chain experiments. The currently disclosed experiment allows agents to issue tokens and trade, with inference call fees paid on-chain through x402. It uses Celestia’s data availability and is compatible with various existing EVM development tools.
Why it matters to readers
The experiment can be used to observe whether agents will develop sustained on-chain trading activity and whether this activity will create demand for blockspace. As it remains a closed beta, its long-term usage cannot yet be determined.
Beginners can understand it as an on-chain trading scenario for agents that is still under testing; the available materials describe the technology and experimental approach but do not provide the participation scale, specific transaction volume, or long-term operating results.
Risks and unknowns
The first experiment remains in the closed beta stage.
The original text does not provide the participation scale, specific transaction count, statistical period, or duration.
Eden “at one point became one of the blockchains with the highest number of x402 transactions” is Celestia’s statement; the original text does not provide verification data.
The original text does not state whether Eden will expand into a public network or become a long-term application.
The original text does not provide data on commercial impact, token prices, or fund flows.
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EVM
Ethereum Virtual Machine; networks compatible with it can run Ethereum-style smart contract applications.
