Olas launches Pearl Connect for Claude coding agents

Olas has launched Pearl Connect for users of Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The beta product is available on the Gnosis and Polygon networks.

Pearl Connect is part of Pearl, Olas's AI agent app store, and gives coding agents a self-custodial crypto wallet that can be used within a coding session. Its initial focus is prediction markets, where users can research a market, buy a probability estimate from a specialised agent and prepare an on-chain transaction without switching to a separate wallet or browser.

The system creates a Safe smart account for the user and runs locally within Pearl. The coding agent can check wallet balances, request services from the Olas Marketplace and prepare transactions for applications including Polymarket and Omen.

Each transaction is signed locally on the user's machine, with private keys kept outside the AI session. The wallet remains owned by the user and can be restored with a Pearl password, recovery phrase or backup wallet.

Prediction market focus

The launch makes prediction markets the first use case for Pearl Connect. Users can direct an AI coding agent to interact with Polymarket and Omen while the agent handles the transaction flow within the same working session.

The model also creates a way for one AI agent to pay another directly for a task. In practice, a coding agent could buy a fresh probability estimate from a purpose-built prediction agent on the Olas Marketplace on a per-request basis, rather than through an API key or subscription.

That approach reflects a broader effort in the AI tools market to combine research, execution and payments in a single workflow. Coding assistants have become more common in software development and analysis, but financial actions have often required users to leave the chat or coding environment and switch to a separate application.

Pearl Connect is designed first for people who already use coding agents and trade prediction markets. Beyond that niche, the underlying setup is intended to let coding agents pay for services and interact with blockchain applications whenever a user instructs them to do so.

Chains and controls

At launch, Pearl Connect supports Polygon and Gnosis. Each Connect agent operates on a single chain, with its own wallet and funding, and users can create additional Connect agents for other supported chains.

The service also supports interactions with DeFi protocols and other compatible smart contracts specified by the user. That broadens its scope beyond prediction markets, although Olas has positioned market trading as the main entry point for the beta release.

Olas drew a distinction between Pearl Connect and Polystrat, another tool in the wider Pearl ecosystem. Polystrat trades continuously on Polymarket without manual input, while Pearl Connect is intended as a co-pilot within a user-directed coding session and does not trade on its own.

Security risks

Olas acknowledged that using an AI agent with financial permissions carries risk. Prompt injection attacks cannot be fully eliminated and could expose sensitive information stored on a user's computer or lead to unintended actions.

Pearl Connect uses several layers of security to protect wallet private keys, but a non-zero risk of fund loss remains. Users running other Pearl agents in auto-run mode are also advised to disable that setting while Pearl Connect is active.

If a transaction fails, the coding agent can detect the failure and either retry or notify the user. Pearl Connect is not currently eligible for OLAS Activity Rewards, which are reserved at launch for autonomous agents that meet the threshold under its Proof of Active Agent staking mechanism.

The launch comes as prediction markets continue to draw heavy volumes in crypto trading. In outreach around the product, Olas pointed to Polymarket monthly trading volume of USD $4.3 billion as evidence of the scale of activity in that market segment.

David Minarsch, Chief Executive Officer of Valory and a founding member of Olas, said the product is intended to remove the need to move between tools when carrying out blockchain-based actions from an AI-assisted workflow. "AI coding agents can already research and reason well through complex tasks, but until now they had no straightforward way to execute onchain actions without requiring users to switch to a separate wallet or browser," Minarsch said.

He added that the product also changes how software agents can buy services from one another. "Instead of API keys or subscriptions, one agent can pay another directly from its own wallet, per request, for services like specialized prediction agents on the Olas Marketplace," Minarsch said.