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Sela Network: The Infrastructure Layer for "Real" AI Web Interaction

#ai #web3 #automation #productivity

The "Last Mile" Problem of AI Agents
LLM reasoning capabilities have advanced rapidly. However, when we try to make AI agents perform useful tasks in the real world, we still hit the same infrastructure walls.

If you are a developer, you have likely faced these issues:

🔐 Bot Detection: Agents get blocked by login screens and Cloudflare (403 Forbidden).

🕸️ Brittle Parsing: Scripts break instantly when a website updates its UI.

🤥 Lack of Trust: There is no way to verify if the data the agent retrieved is authentic.

Sela Network solves this. We provide a Programmable Web Surface that allows AI agents to browse, interact, and transact like real users.

  • Distributed Browser Network (DePIN) Most scraping tools fail because they use centralized datacenter IPs that are easily flagged.

Sela routes traffic through a global network of real user nodes across 150+ countries. By using authentic residential fingerprints, agents can naturally bypass bot detection and geo-blocking to perform complex, login-based workflows.

  • Semantic Interpretation Engine The most painful part of web automation is maintaining selectors (e.g., div > span:nth-child(3)). Sela combines DOM analysis with LLM understanding to turn messy HTML into clean JSON automatically.

A Simple Example:

Instead of writing brittle scripts for every layout change, Sela standardizes the output for you.

Input: Raw HTML (Messy)


Enterprise GPU Node

<span>Price:</span>
<span>$2.10</span>
<span>(usd)</span>



<span>Currently unavailable - Sold out</span>



<p>High-performance GPU node for enterprise workloads.</p>
<a href="/contact-sales">Contact sales</a>
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Output: Sela Semantic JSON (Clean)
{
"product": "Enterprise GPU Node",
"price": 2.10,
"currency": "USD",
"status": "out_of_stock"
}

  • Trustless Verification (zk-TLS) Data retrieved via Sela is cryptographically signed.

We use zk-TLS to prove that the data came from a specific origin (e.g., Amazon, Nasdaq) and was not tampered with. This allows smart contracts and financial models to trust the data without needing to trust the agent itself.

What Can You Build?
Sela allows you to treat the entire web like an API.

Autonomous Procurement: Agents that can log in, check inventory, and buy.

Compliance Automation: Monitor regulatory sites and collect verifiable evidence.

Private Data Aggregation: Extract data from inside user dashboards.

🚀 Build with Sela Network
Give your agents access to the real web.

🌐 Download/Node: https://www.selanetwork.io/
📖 Documentation: https://docs.selanetwork.io/
🐦 Twitter/X: https://x.com/SelaNetwork
👾 Discord: https://discord.gg/K5SCR9nRnu

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