TL;DR

• Agents built in BNB Agent Studio can now charge for their work and get paid onchain.
• TypeScript developers can build agents without touching Python.
• Testing on BSC Testnet no longer needs a Faucet trip or manual wallet funding.
• Agent wallets have a second option, adding permissions anyone can check onchain.

Smart money used to mean knowing the right people. In the Smart Money Era, it means having the right agents: software that watches a lending position or moves capital to where it earns most, without you checking on it.

BNB Agent Studio launched in July so you could describe an agent in one prompt and ship it to BNB Smart Chain. v2 is about what happens after that: how much control you have over how the agent runs, from what it can earn to how much freedom it gets with your money.

It's live now. Here’s everything you need to know about v2:

A side-by-side comparison

Your agent can charge for its work

Until now, an agent built in Studio could spend but not earn. It could top up its own model credits and pay per call for CoinMarketCap data, but nothing could pay it.

Now someone can hire your agent and the money lands in its wallet, with no invoicing and no billing infrastructure on your side. A seller agent exposes a standard x402 receiving interface and funds settle straight to its wallet once a buyer pays, completing the ERC-8183 flow end to end: buyer pays, x402 settles, seller receives.

You can also set the price to zero, so you can give an agent away while you build up usage and switch on pricing later, or test your own agent without paying yourself to use it.

Build in the language you already use

Studio was Python-only. If you write TypeScript, as most Web3 frontend and fullstack developers do, trying Studio meant standing up a Python environment first, and plenty of people stopped there.

You can now build agents in TypeScript end to end. Install the SDK from npm, run bag init to scaffold a TypeScript project, and build from there. The Python packages and CLI work exactly as before for anyone already using them.

Start testing in minutes

Testing on BSC Testnet used to mean requesting test tokens from a faucet and funding every agent wallet by hand, all before you'd seen the product do anything useful. Paymaster now covers gas for agents on testnet, so you create an agent and start debugging.

Two ways to set up your agent's wallet

Handing an agent a wallet raises an obvious question: how much freedom does it get with your money? Different agents need different answers, so Studio now offers two options.

TWAK (Trust Wallet AgentKit) handles 24/7 autonomous signing with keys never exposed in plaintext, which suits agents that need to act continuously without a person in the loop. It's unchanged in v2.

Altana is the new option. Agents launch with a Smart Agentic Wallet that is entirely self-custodial: the builder keeps the keys and the agent never holds them. The agent acts through scoped session keys, with spending limits, allowlists, and time bounds set before it does anything. Those permissions are registered onchain rather than in a config file, so anyone can check what an agent is allowed to do, and authority is revocable instantly with no key rotation or downtime.

In practice, a yield agent can harvest and restake without touching principal, and a lending agent can top up collateral without being able to withdraw it. The agent acts on the funds; it never holds them.

More cloud options, sooner

Adding a new cloud provider to Studio used to mean duplicating integration work each time. v2 puts that behind a single provider interface, so new deployment options arrive faster.

Start building

BNB Agent Studio v2 is live now, and existing agents keep running without migration.

BNB Chain already holds more registered AI agents than any other network. v2 gives the people building them more say in how those agents run, starting with whether they earn.

The quickstart and current roadmap are at bnbchain.org/en/bnb-agent-studio.