Today, we’re excited to announce Heurist Agent Framework, a lightweight and versatile agent framework written in Python. Integrated in our decentralized AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) Cloud, it provides the foundation for truly sovereign crypto-native AI — giving developers the tools to create agents that operate autonomously in the Web3 world, from trading assets to analyzing markets to engaging with communities.
The Missing Piece
The AI agent market has exploded to tens of billions, yet current solutions fall short of unique demands in the crypto world. Traditional frameworks like Langchain and CrewAI excel at Web2 use cases such as customer service or booking flight tickets, but the crypto world requires fundamentally different capabilities. Crypto AI agents typically need to analyze market data, execute transactions onchain, and maintain engaging social media presence — tasks that existing Web2 frameworks weren’t designed to handle.
Web3 agent frameworks today are far from perfect, with constraints that limit builder freedom. Lauching agents with eliza framework requires a 10% donation to the ai16z DAO. Virtual protocol forces builders to pair their agent tokens with $VIRTUAL tokens. Even when projects outgrow these platforms and build custom solutions to upgrade their agents (which is very common for sophisticated agents), they remain permanently locked into these protocol taxes.
Perhaps most concerning is the reliance on centralized AI infrastructure. When your agent depends on OpenAI or Claude API, you’re subject to their policies and restrictions. A single policy change could cripple your agent — imagine your trading bot being censored for giving financial advice. Crypto AI agents can only thrive on truly decentralized infrastructure.
The Raspberry Pi of Agent Frameworks
If eliza is the Ubuntu of open source agent frameworks, Heurist Agent Framework is the Raspberry Pi OS: lightweight, functional, and remarkably cost-effective through our decentralized AI network.
We adopt an opinionated software architecture, born from real-world experience building AI agents, eliminates common pain points. You won’t find 20-page setup guides or hundreds of abstract classes here. Instead, you’ll discover clean Python code that “just works” — simple enough for beginners, yet powerful enough for production deployments.
While the simplicity is great, there are no limits on what can achieve with Heurist Agent Framework.
Extensibility
The framework’s modular design means it grows with your needs. While the core remains lightweight, builders can easily extend functionality through our plugin system. Over 80% AI tools and algorithms are written in Python. Our Python framework is natively compatible with the existing AI/ML ecosystem.
Ease of prompt engineering
Agents need to sound like authentic community members, not automated bots. To achieve this, prompt engineering is the key. We make it easy to edit prompts, simulate the responses and track intermediate states for debugging.
Inference scaling
Advanced planning and reasoning is achieved by inference-time optimization techniques of LLMs. This umbrella term “inference scaling” consists of many techniques such as chain-of-thought reasoning, ReAct prompting, and self-consistency methods — similar to those used in OpenAI-o1 model. These algorithms are natively supported to improve the intelligence of the agents. The compute overhead is offset by the cost reduction of open source LLMs and decentralized compute resources.
Multi-platform support
Your agents can engage seamlessly across both traditional and decentralized social platforms. While most frameworks stop at Twitter, Telegram, and Discord, we’re also integrating Web3 social media including Farcaster and Lens Protocol. Deploy once, engage everywhere, and be ready for the Web3 social revolution.
Powered by Heurist’s Specialized Infrastructure
Every agent built with Heurist Agent Framework inherits the full power of our battle-tested AI cloud infrastructure, giving your projects an immediate advantage. Here’s what’s available out of the box:
LLM APIs
Access high-performance open source LLMs at a fraction of the cost. Models such as Llama 3.3 70b and Qwen2.5-Coder match GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet performance on certain tasks while supporting advanced features like tool calling.
Advanced Image and Video Generation
Create distinctive visual identities for your agents using our finetuned Stable Diffusion and FLUX models. Everything on
is available via API. Need something specific? Our custom model finetuning service ensures your agent’s visual style perfectly matches your brand.
ComfyUI-as-a-Service
Skip the complexity of setting up ComfyUI nodes and dependencies. Access production-ready ComfyUI workflows without the infrastructure headache — perfect for agents that need multimodal capabilities.
Native Crypto Wallet Integration
Give your agents true autonomy with built-in crypto wallets. Our payment system lets agents manage their own compute resources, pay for services, and interact with smart contracts independently.
Why Open Source Matters
Open source is more than a license choice — it’s a commitment to freedom. Heurist Agent Framework is released under the MIT license, continuing our tradition of building in public and maximizing transparency.
The framework works out of the box for common use cases, like spinning up a chat interface or creating an automated Twitter account. We understand that agent development is a journey of constant refinement. As your agent grows, you might need to integrate with proprietary enterprise data, or build entirely new capabilities. Open source ensures you never hit artificial limits in customizing your agents.
Building open source software has proven to be successful across our ecosystem. From the Heurist Miner to Heurist SDK, and applications like Heurist Imagine, Pondera, Heurist Search, and Babel Bot, open source has been a catalyst for innovation. Open source is also the path that most Web2 AI agent frameworks have chosen.
By choosing open source, we reaffirm the commitment to a truly decentralized future. Your success shouldn’t depend on our permission — it should depend on your creativity and vision, freely contributing to a more open and autonomous Crypto AI ecosystem.
Driving Adoption of Our Decentralized Cloud
How will the open-source approach align with value creation, particularly for the HEU token? Our strategy mirrors successful Web2 cloud platforms.
Think of Heurist as the AWS of decentralized AI. Each component strengthens the value of the entire cloud service suite. Our miners provide the compute backbone like AWS EC2, while our inference and model deployment services offer specialized AI capabilities like AWS SageMaker. On top of these, Heurist Agent Framework channels users toward our decentralized compute network. This is similar to how AWS Amplify, an open source Web and mobile development framework, drives adoption of EC2 and other AWS services.
Beyond the framework, we’re developing Agents-as-a-Service — a fully managed solution for those who need production-grade AI agents without the operational overhead. We’ll offer premium services for users who need additional support, custom development, or guaranteed performance levels.
Get Started Today
Website: https://agent.heurist.ai/
Github: https://github.com/heurist-network/heurist-agent-framework
Join our Discord to connect with builders and get support from the core team.
Building AI agents shouldn’t feel like wrestling with cables. With Heurist Agent Framework, you can go from an idea to a working agent in minutes. While your agent handles the heavy lifting, you can sit back and enjoy that coffee. ☕
