Silk is a non-custodial banking and payment layer for AI agents on the Solana blockchain, enabling secure USDC transfers and automated escrows.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install silk
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install silk using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Silk: Agent Banking & Payments on Solana?
Silk (also known as SilkyWay) provides a robust infrastructure for agent banking and payments on Solana. It allows developers to integrate non-custodial, on-chain financial capabilities into their AI workflows, supporting both direct transfers and cancellable escrow payments. By utilizing Openclaw Skills, Silk empowers agents to handle stablecoins like USDC with high security and minimal friction.
The platform is designed specifically for autonomous agents, offering optional on-chain accounts where humans can delegate spending authority through policy-enforced limits. This ensures that agents can perform financial tasks without compromising the safety of the user's main assets, making it a cornerstone for decentralized agentic finance within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem.
Silk: Agent Banking & Payments on Solana Use Cases
- Automated payment processing for AI-driven services and digital labor.
- Secure USDC escrow for code reviews or peer-to-peer digital tasks.
- Delegated agent spending with human-controlled on-chain limits for safety.
- Non-custodial wallet management for multi-agent autonomous systems.
- Integrating seamless crypto-payments into Openclaw Skills workflows.
How Silk: Agent Banking & Payments on Solana Works
- The agent or developer initiates a transaction request which builds an unsigned transaction via the SilkyWay API.
- The Silk CLI signs the transaction locally using a private key stored on the local machine, ensuring keys never leave the environment.
- The signed transaction is submitted back to the API and broadcast to the Solana network for execution.
- In escrow scenarios, tokens are locked in a Program Derived Address (PDA) until the recipient claims them or the sender cancels the transfer.
- For account-based transfers, the Solana program validates on-chain spending limits and pause states before allowing the transfer to proceed.
Silk: Agent Banking & Payments on Solana Setup
To integrate this into your Openclaw Skills environment, follow these steps:
# Install the Silk CLI
npm install -g @silkysquad/silk
# Initialize your wallet and agent ID
silk init
# (Optional) Switch to devnet for testing
silk config set-cluster devnet
# Fund your devnet wallet
silk wallet fund
Silk: Agent Banking & Payments on Solana Data Schema & Taxonomy
Silk organizes its data across local configuration files and on-chain program accounts:
| File/Object | Location | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
config.json |
~/.config/silk/ |
Stores wallet addresses, agent ID, and private keys. |
contacts.json |
~/.config/silk/ |
Local address book mapping names to Solana public keys. |
Transfer PDA |
On-chain | Unique identifier for specific escrow transactions. |
Account PDA |
On-chain | Human-created account used for delegating spending to agents. |
Silk: Agent Banking & Payments on Solana Advanced Features
- Policy-enforced spending limits: Humans can set per-transaction caps on-chain that agents cannot exceed.
- Multi-wallet support: Manage multiple identities and accounts with specific labels for different agent tasks.
- Built-in AI Support: Access a persistent agent-based chat for technical assistance directly through the CLI.
- Idempotent Initialization: The silk init command is safe to run multiple times, ensuring configuration stability.
- Escrow Expiry and Scheduling: Support for claimable-after timestamps to manage time-locked payments in Openclaw Skills.
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