Stride’s AI agent protocol Echos shuts down

Echos, the artificial intelligence platform for agent tokens, stops.

On March 27, the IA Agent platform, developed by the liquid layoff based on Cosmos, informed Its community that operations will stop on May 1, 2025.

Echos, which was launched in beta in November 2024, cited a low adoption as the main reason for its closure. According to an opinion published on X, the experience failed to obtain a significant traction, reflecting a broader slowdown in the space of the Crypto AI agent.

“Echos has always been an experience. Unfortunately, Echos has had little adoption. In addition, the global market of AI agents has contracted,” said the team.

Echos is an application of stride built on Celestia, designed as a roller.

From vision to sunset

During the launch, the Stride team envisaged the Echos of Echos and the same focus as a potential disruptor for the future of Decentralized finance. The plan consisted in evolving the echoes of an experimental product in a complete ecosystem of rollers supporting various cases of use in the Stride liquid clearing network.

However, a lack of user traction ended these ambitions.

The Echos team urged all users to withdraw their funds before the platform stops definitively on May 1.

According to Stride, Echos was inspired by the Terminal of Truths, the agent of IA who saw the same Goateus Maximus (GOAT) explode in the summer of 2024. He continued to strike $ 1 billion in market capitalization.

Terminal of Truths, a large platform of language model supported by Marc Andreessen by Andreessen Horowitz, gained notoriety after having shilling the goat token on X – an action that has shown the rush.

Stride’s vision for Echos was to create a similar AI experience, allowing anyone to launch your own echo using just a cryptographic portfolio and an X account.

Although Echos has failed to go beyond the first phase of its development, the AI ​​agents sector has since known several notable projects. Some of the main trends include virtual, AI16Z, Freysa AI and Delysium protocol.