Mantle's initial wave of pushing the "modularity" concept used EigenLayer for the DA layer. At the time, many people probably thought it was just coining new terms. But looking back now, that was actually laying the groundwork for AI.

The ERC-8004 that Mantle recently introduced is the main event. Everyone's talking about AI Agents, but how do Agents interact seamlessly on-chain? How do they own independent and secure asset permissions? That's what this protocol does. When projects like Almanak and Allora come into play, the logic closes the loop: use EigenLayer to solve data cost issues, then use the new protocol to solve interaction permission issues.

This is much more credible than just hyping an AI meme. I used to think EIP-3074 making users gas-free and using meta-transactions was pretty convenient, but now I see that was just the appetizer. The real main course is getting bots running on-chain without friction.

I'm bullish on this direction because it's not hype. With technology, getting in a few months early is a moat. Today's Mantle is no longer just the public chain incubated by BitDAO back then—it's more like a base layer container prepared for AI and high-frequency trading.

If you're still fixating on traditional TPS metrics, you might be looking at it wrong. The future of blockchains is about who can handle massive AI operations, and that's what a new era should look like.

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