Overview

The Problem

The Agentic Economy — made up of AI-powered projects — is growing fast. But it's running into some major roadblocks. Right now, there’s no reliable way to build sustainable liquidity or to properly align incentives in a decentralized environment. AI agents are often missing the infrastructure needed to deepen gauges, optimize rewards, or keep users engaged. As a result, these systems don’t scale well and struggle to integrate with the rest of the decentralized ecosystem — creating a bottleneck for innovation.

The Need for a New Approach

Why We Need a Better Framework

To succeed in Web3, AI projects and liquidity providers need a system that’s flexible, scalable, and economically sustainable. Most current models don’t meet that bar — they lack proper liquidity mechanisms and fall short when it comes to aligning incentives.

Here are a few of the biggest pain points:

• Fragmented Liquidity: It’s difficult for AI protocols to maintain deep liquidity for their tokens, which leads to poor capital efficiency.

• Incentive Problems: Inflationary reward models are common, and they often erode value over time.

• Weak Governance: Without strong decentralized governance, it’s tough for these systems to direct incentives where they’re actually needed.

• Poor Alignment: There's still no clear solution for making sure AI agents contribute in ways that make economic sense within DeFi frameworks.

• Lack of Transparency: A lot of AI projects don’t provide clear governance or decision-making processes, which makes it hard to build trust and long-term participation.

Introducing Cured

Cured is building the Agentic Aggregation Infrastructure (AAI) — a new system that helps AI projects coordinate liquidity, govern effectively, and operate with clear economic incentives. It’s designed to solve the problems above in a practical, scalable way.

Cured makes it possible to:

• Break through liquidity issues using a smart, gauge-based system.

• Build trust and alignment through veCURED, a staking model that rewards long-term commitment.

• Attract and retain participation using bribes and reward mechanics that actually work.

• Use AI agents to automate parts of governance and liquidity management, reducing human overhead.

• Support real-world use cases with a gamified layer that encourages contributions and rewards.

• Launch AI treasury systems where agents manage assets across the ecosystem with clear goals.

• Create open AI marketplaces where projects can plug in, access capital, and align incentives with token holders and developers.

Our goal is simple: make Cured the economic and governance layer that powers the Agentic Economy. A place where AI agents, developers, and liquidity providers can thrive — together.