Dear Persisters,
We hope you are doing well.
In March, we took a step towards what we believe is the next phase of DeFi user experience: agents interacting with protocols on behalf of users.
Agentic AI traffic grew 7,851% year over year, and this shift towards agents interacting with applications is beginning to extend into DeFi as well. Instead of navigating multiple apps, bridges, and swaps manually, users will increasingly rely on agents to execute transactions across chains.
With this in mind, we introduced BridgeKitty MCP.
BridgeKitty MCP is a cross-chain bridge aggregator designed for AI agents, connecting the best routes across EVM, Solana, and Cosmos. It allows agents to handle swaps and cross-chain transactions without users needing to switch tabs, manage multiple interfaces, or manually route assets.
Alongside this, March also saw continued improvements on the Interop product side, where cross-chain swaps now take less than 10 seconds to complete.
With that brief overview, keep reading to catch up on everything that happened in March 2026.
Persistence One Highlights
- The month started with us highlighting the overall vibes on CT so far and sharing a brief concept animation of how agent-led DeFi interactions would look.
- Further along, we kept encouraging the community to battle-test the beta mainnet on weekends while touching grass and share their feedback with us to refine the experience further.
- During the month, Interop beta mainnet crossed the USD 80,000 mark in swap volume. Swap limits have been intentionally kept at 0.001 BTC per order between BTCB on the BNB Chain and cbBTC on Base. The focus during beta remains reliability, routing efficiency, and swap speed before increasing limits further. We shared an update in this regard to keep the community informed about this milestone.
- Subsequently, we announced the BridgeKitty MCP concept for agents, along with a short video showing how it could make DeFi swaps easier without needing to close or switch tabs, simply by prompting your agent on what you’d like to do.
Pov: You just ask your agent
- To assist users with setting up BridgeKitty MCP with their agents, we started a week-long campaign focused on this, where each day highlighted a new feature that could be handled end-to-end with BridgeKitty by your agent, along with curated guides for each. The entire thread can be accessed here.
- We also shared a guide on the blog for this, which can be found here.
- The shift towards agent-led DeFi interactions does not mean manual swaps are going away anytime soon, and the former is still very early and shaping up. To explain what you can do with your agent and yourself, this infographic was prepared and shared.
- The MCP reached ~1,000 downloads, which, considering how early it is for end-user adoption, is still small, and a lot lies ahead in terms of how usage would scale in DeFi.
If you’ve read till here, thank you, and if you haven’t tried BridgeKitty yet, give it a try and let us know what you think.
Media & Community
Here are some standout moments from the media and community front during March:
- Persistence One CEO, Jeroen Develter, shared what long-term user experience in DeFi should look like, where swapping BTC and moving assets becomes seamless.
- Throughout the month, Jeroen also kept highlighting what’s cooking behind the scenes and kept sharing updates. Make sure to follow him on X.
- One of our validators, Validatus, published a thread showcasing how the next big DeFi UX upgrade might look, which you can read here.
- BridgeKitty MCP was featured by several of the community members on socials, some of which you can find below.
Looking Ahead
As we move into April, the focus remains on improving swap reliability, efficiency, and overall user experience across Interop and BridgeKitty.
Some of the areas we are working on include:
- Improving BridgeKitty functionality and agent workflows
- Further improving swap speed, routing, and the overall Interop beta mainnet experience
The broader goal remains the same: making cross-chain asset transfers simple, fast, and eventually abstracted away from the user experience entirely.
XPRT Governance & Token Highlights
March did not see any governance proposals progress to voting or completion.
About Persistence One
Persistence One is building intent-based Bitcoin interoperability—simple, reliable cross-chain swaps across Bitcoin L2s, sidechains, and BTC-aligned networks.
Our mission is to reduce fragmentation across the Bitcoin ecosystem and make cross-chain value transfer intuitive for users, developers, and partners.
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