Ethereum News Today: CoinFello Bridges DeFi Gap by Translating and Automating Smart Contracts into Everyday Language

HyperPlay Labs Inc. has introduced CoinFello, an innovative AI-powered platform aimed at making decentralized finance (DeFi) more accessible by streamlining intricate smart contract operations. Revealed during DevConnect in Buenos Aires, Argentina,

between everyday users and blockchain by providing a user-friendly chat system that interprets and carries out instructions given in natural language. Built on EigenCloud and Consensys' MetaMask Smart Accounts Kit, over their digital assets while utilizing AI to handle processes such as cross-chain transfers, fees, and optimizing liquidity.

This platform functions as a "self-sovereign" agent, allowing users to assign decision-making to CoinFello's AI while still keeping full authority over their funds. With this approach, users can automate protective strategies, such as moving assets in response to market declines. For example,

in Ethereum liquidations in October 2025, CoinFello’s automation could have helped avoid losses by proactively shifting positions. Jacobc.eth, the founder of CoinFello and former MetaMask operations head, highlighted that the platform "reduces risk and increases accessibility," for widespread DeFi adoption.

CoinFello’s security is built on EigenCloud, a verifiable cloud solution from Eigen Labs. By using EigenLayer’s restaking technology,

are cryptographically verifiable, protecting against outside interference. Sreeram Kannan, CEO of EigenCloud, to deliver "predictable and self-sovereign AI," so users keep control over both their data and the AI models they use.

The app also utilizes MetaMask’s Smart Accounts Kit to make DeFi operations smoother.

"Sell my meme coins to buy more ETH" or "Protect my loan positions from liquidation during market swings," with CoinFello handling technical details like token transfers and gas fee calculations. This feature supports Consensys’ vision for agentic AI, where at Consensys puts it, "granular permissions let users specify exactly what they want to do on-chain."

CoinFello is currently in a closed alpha stage, with plans for a public launch in the first quarter of 2026. The development team, which includes veterans from MetaMask, gaming, and AI sectors, is focused on overcoming major obstacles to DeFi adoption, such as disjointed user experiences and high entry barriers. HyperPlay Labs, the company behind the project, also

, a web3 gaming infrastructure service.

Although this release is a major advancement for DeFi accessibility,

. Some critics point out the importance of strong governance systems to ensure AI agents act transparently and ethically. Even so, and its focus on user needs could make it a transformative force in the crypto industry.