AI Agent Wallet Permissions: What to Keep Manual on Base

With AI agent wallet permissions, a chat assistant can take actions in your Base Account. Use it to track and explain things. Approving transactions, moving prize funds and casting your vote should stay with you. In Temptation Token, the vote is the human part of the game, and no bot should cast it for you.

What do AI agent wallet permissions actually let a chatbot do?

They let an AI assistant act on your wallet from inside a chat. Base MCP lets users connect Base Accounts to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI clients to swap tokens and move funds with plain-language prompts. That is useful. It also means the chat window can now touch real money.

The plumbing underneath is the Model Context Protocol. Anthropic describes it as an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives. Your wallet is now one of those systems.

Here is the real problem. Talking to a chatbot feels casual, but a signed transaction on Base can’t be undone. The app says so in plain words: “⚠ Verify your address carefully. Transactions on Base are irreversible.”

What can an AI assistant usefully do for a Temptation Token player?

It can read, track and explain. It doesn’t need to sign anything to be useful. Here is how it works in practice:

• Explain the rules. Ask it how a round works. Each round lasts one week and closes on Sunday night, US Eastern time. Up to 50 approved profiles compete.
• Check a contract. Have it confirm that the voting contract you are about to use is 0x783b8cd80b586b723188c93ef94ee1beede617b4, on Base mainnet, chain ID 8453.
• Read a settlement. Ask it to walk you through the payout split. Without a club, the winning pool goes 35% to the top voter, 35% to the winning profile, 10% to charity and 20% to the house.
• Track your balance. It can keep an eye on your $TTS and on the small amount of ETH on Base you need for gas.

None of that needs a spending permission. Read-only help covers most of what a beginner needs. If you are still setting up, start with why you need a play wallet and how to connect it to Base.

Should an AI agent approve transactions for you?

No. Do the approving yourself. Base documentation explains that a spend permission lets a trusted spender move assets out of a user’s Base Account on their behalf. Once you sign it, the spender can make transfers within your limits without asking you again.

That is fine for a subscription you understand. A game wallet is different. Votes here are final. Once you place one, you can’t withdraw it or reduce it. A bot that misreads a prompt can’t take it back for you either.

Here is the test. If you wouldn’t let a stranger hold your phone with the wallet open, don’t sign a standing permission for an agent. Read every approval prompt yourself. Our rug pull checks are a good habit to run first.

Why should prize funds stay under manual control?

A prize lands in your wallet, and what happens next should be your decision. The voting contract pays every share in $TTS, straight to the recipients’ wallets, in the settlement transaction. Nobody has to claim it, and nothing needs a bot to collect it.

Moving that $TTS is where the risk sits. $TTS has a 1% transfer tax on any transfer where neither side is tax-exempt. Sending to a wrong address costs you everything you sent. An agent that “tidies up” your balance to another wallet is making a call that belongs to you.

The short version: let the assistant tell you what arrived and explain it. Move the funds with your own hands, and check the address twice. Read up on passkey wallet recovery too, so a lost phone isn’t a lost prize.

Why is casting a vote something no bot should do for you?

The vote is the game. It is your pick, made with your own money on the line, alongside other people making theirs. Hand it to a bot and you have taken yourself out of the only part that is yours.

One round, one vote, one choice you stand behind. Players send $TTS to the voting contract on a profile they choose. The minimum is 5 $TTS. You can add more during the round and back more than one profile. When the round closes, Chainlink VRF draws the winner at random, weighted by tickets. More votes improve a profile’s odds, but no profile is sure to win.

Your vote also has to fit the rules. A vote is refused if it would push a profile above 40% of all $TTS voted in the round. A wallet with no eligible stake can vote at most 500 $TTS in one transaction. A person reading the screen will catch these limits. An agent firing off prompts may not.

How do you set up AI agent wallet permissions safely as a beginner?

Keep it read-only, and keep play money apart from savings. Three steps:

• Step one. Use a separate play wallet for the game, holding only what you plan to vote with.
• Step two. If you connect an assistant, use it to read and explain. Turn down any standing spend permission.
• Step three. Sign every vote, swap and transfer yourself in the app at app.temptationtoken.io.

Base also offers sub accounts. Base’s own docs note that a popup asks for user approval on a sub account’s first transaction. Treat that prompt as a checkpoint and read it, rather than clicking through. No purchase is needed to start: a new wallet gets a one-time 500 $TTS signup bonus when it first connects in the app, paid by the operator.

Frequently asked questions

Is Base MCP the same as giving an AI my private key?

No. Base MCP connects your Base Account to an AI client through a standard protocol, so it doesn’t hand over a raw private key. What matters is which permissions you sign. A signed spend permission lets a trusted spender move funds within limits, so grant only what you understand and can revoke.

No. Base MCP connects your Base Account to an AI client through a standard protocol, so it doesn’t hand over a raw private key. What matters is which permissions you sign. A signed spend permission lets a trusted spender move funds within limits, so grant only what you understand and can revoke.

Can the Temptation Token Telegram bot vote for me?

No. The Telegram bot @TTSGameBot asks you to confirm you are 18 or older. It opens the game inside Telegram and links to the leaderboard and contract details. You still choose and cast each vote yourself, and every vote is final and non-refundable.

No. The Telegram bot @TTSGameBot asks you to confirm you are 18 or older. It opens the game inside Telegram and links to the leaderboard and contract details. You still choose and cast each vote yourself, and every vote is final and non-refundable.

What happens to votes on profiles that lose?

They are burned. After the payouts, all $TTS left in the voting contract goes to the burn address 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD. The prize pool is only the $TTS voted on the winning profile. A round with no votes has no winner, no payout and no trophies.

They are burned. After the payouts, all $TTS left in the voting contract goes to the burn address 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD. The prize pool is only the $TTS voted on the winning profile. A round with no votes has no winner, no payout and no trophies.

Who gets a trophy at the end of a round?

Three wallets do. At settlement, the voting contract mints three TTS Round Trophy NFTs: one to the winning profile’s wallet, one to the top voter and one to the house wallet. The top voter is the wallet that voted the most $TTS in total on the winning profile.

Three wallets do. At settlement, the voting contract mints three TTS Round Trophy NFTs: one to the winning profile’s wallet, one to the top voter and one to the house wallet. The top voter is the wallet that voted the most $TTS in total on the winning profile.

Does voting carry the $TTS transfer tax?

No. The voting contract is tax-exempt, and so is the Uniswap V2 pool, so votes and swaps in that pool carry no transfer tax. You still need a small amount of ETH on Base to pay gas on every transaction.

No. The voting contract is tax-exempt, and so is the Uniswap V2 pool, so votes and swaps in that pool carry no transfer tax. You still need a small amount of ETH on Base to pay gas on every transaction.

The Bottom Line

Let the assistant read for you. Approve your own transactions, move your own prizes and cast your own vote. That split keeps AI agent wallet permissions useful without handing over the part of the game that belongs to you. “$TTS is a utility token for playing the contest.”

Here is the one thing to try. Open the app, connect a play wallet, and cast one vote by hand on a profile you would back in front of your friends. Questions go to support@temptationtoken.io, or ask in @TTSCommunityChat. Join.

Play at app.temptationtoken.io.

Sources

• Coinbase-incubated Base blockchain rolls out MCP gateway to AI interfaces like Claude, ChatGPT
• Introducing the Model Context Protocol
• Use Spend Permissions – Base Documentation
• Use Sub Accounts – Base Documentation