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title: "Agent Accounts"
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slug: "agent-accounts"
published_at: "2026-08-05T19:56:04+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-08-05T20:15:05+00:00"
url: "https://hedera.com/agent-accounts/"
markdown_url: "https://hedera.com/agent-accounts.md"
excerpt: "The next frontier of AI is autonomous commerce. AI agents are becoming central to how enterprises operate, but to be truly useful, they need the ability to transact commercially. In order for an AI Agent to be effective for your..."
---

hedera agent accounts

# Your Wallet. Your Rules. Your Agent.

Give your AI agent the keys to act, without giving up control. Hedera Agent Accounts let autonomous agents hold, spend, and settle funds on the world’s most efficient distributed ledger.

[Early Access Form](#early-access)
[Read the Docs](https://docs.hedera.com)

key differentiators

## Why Agent Accounts on Hedera?

#### Connect any agent

Claude Code, Codex, or build your own agent — Hedera Agent Accounts work with any agent runtime out of the box.

#### Set your rules

Define spending policies, approved recipient accounts, and daily & per-transaction spending limits before your agent ever touches a dollar. You stay in control.

#### Let it run

Once configured, your agent executes 24/7 — paying invoices, settling, retrieving APIs — without waiting on you.

watch it work

## Watch your agent work.

This isn’t a demo. It’s what your agent can do right now.

Agent session · live

Spending limitAutonomous purchaseTravel booking

## Built for every kind of builder.

### Everyday traders

Let your agent monitor positions, rebalance portfolios, and execute trades around the clock — with hard spending limits and 2FA approvals before anything large moves.

### Power users & DeFi natives

Bring your own keys. Full self-custody. Set complex rule stacks and let your agent operate across Hedera and EVM-compatible chains simultaneously.

### Developers

Ship agent-native applications with a wallet SDK built for automation. One API. Full programmability. Hedera’s sub-$0.001 transaction fees keep your economics clean.

### Enterprise teams

Deploy payment-enabled agents across your organization with delegated account management, customizable spending policies, and a full audit trail of every agent action — built for compliance from day one.

security. sovereignty. speed.

## Everything your agent needs to operate safely.

### Spending controls

Set daily limits, per-transaction caps, and time-based restrictions; your agent operates within exactly the boundaries you define.

### Recipient allowlist

Specify which addresses your agent is permitted to transact with. If it’s not on the list, it doesn’t move.

### Truly non-custodial

Set allowances directly from your own wallet. Spend rules are governed by smart contracts that only you can configure; no intermediary, no exceptions.

### Audit & compliance

Audit trail, transaction history, a record of the agent actions and transactions. A record of what humans have allowed.

## Discover why builders choose Asset Tokenization Studio

Discover why Hedera is the trusted institutional-grade network powering the new digital economy.

what will you build?

Tell your agent what to do.

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prompt 01 · research

“Pull the top 5 AI research papers from this week. Summarize each in one sentence. Bill me per result.”

Services called: Exa API

prompt 02 · defi / trading

“Monitor my BTC/HBAR position. If BTC drops 5% in an hour, rebalance into USDC. Don’t spend more than $2,000.”

Services called: [Price oracle] · DEX Router

prompt 03 · api payments

“Subscribe to the Goldsky indexer for 30 days. Auto-renew if I haven’t canceled. Notify me before each charge.”

Services called: Goldsky

prompt 04 · cross-chain settlement

“Settle my outstanding invoice on Arbitrum using USDC, then reconcile the balance back to Hedera. Keep transaction details private.”

Services called: HashSphere · Cross-Ledger Protocol (CLPR)

prompt 05 · agentic commerce

“Find the cheapest GPU compute provider in the marketplace, pay for 4 hours, and start my training job.”

Services called: [Compute marketplace]

ecosystem

## One wallet. Every network.

Hedera-native first. EVM-compatible always. Your agent doesn’t stop at one chain.

- HederaNative
- Ethereum
- Arbitrum
- Base
- + more EVM chains

how it works

## Up and running in minutes.

1. 01### Install the skill in your agent Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and any custom agent runtime. ``` npm install @hedera/agent-wallet-sdk ```
2. 02### Connect your wallet Set the spending limit, approval threshold, and 2FA requirement up front. ``` import { AgentWallet } from "@hedera/agent-wallet-sdk"; const wallet = new AgentWallet({ network: "mainnet", spendingLimit: { daily: 500, currency: "USDC" }, approvalThreshold: 100, twoFactorAuth: true, }); ```
3. 03### Configure your agent and agent controls Drive it from natural language or the CLI. ``` # Natural language or CLI hedera-agent run "Pay for Exa research API and return top 5 results" ```

✓ That’s it. Your agent is live. Every transaction is logged, signed, and settled on Hedera — with a full audit trail on-chain.