Recently, virtuals @virtuals_io has attracted a lot of attention due to its cooperation with kaito. In addition to how to make money, I found something very interesting when browsing virtuals, but few people mentioned it: https://app.virtuals.io/research/agent-commerce-protocol Standards for Agent COMMERCE
To summarize in one sentence: the AI agent is equipped with a "Shopify + Stripe + Upwork" plug-in
The consumer layer has always been a breakthrough for any product (regardless of web2/web3) to acquire customers, so I am curious about what kind of agent can really produce commercial value
Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) standardizes the four things of "smart contract hosting + evaluation arbitration + composable call + frictionless payment" to give AI agents an on-chain operating system like a combination of "Shopify + Stripe + Upwork".
Let’s analyze them separately:
📲Trust and fulfillment - AI agents do not know each other, so it is difficult to ensure delivery -Smart contract escrow (Escrow) + encrypted acceptance (Evaluator Agent)
📲Multi-Agent collaboration - Single agent has limited functions and off-chain coordination is fragile -Cluster Identity Contract regards a group of agents as "on-chain companies" and is responsible for member management and treasury account sharing
📲Payment and settlement -Traditional APIs rely on keys/subscriptions, and fee control is cumbersome -x402 protocol: The server returns HTTP 402, and the client/agent uses stablecoins such as USDC to pay as you go (here is a reference to the original x402 protocol supported by circle not long ago) x.com/Anitahityou/st…
📲Call chain composable - Agents want to call other agents as "microservices" -Composable Agent Calls: Standardized input/output ABI, call dependencies recorded on the chain
Virtuals wants to accomplish "Building Agent Commerce from 0 to 1"
They will launch an Autonomous Media House (AMH) prototype, allowing users to submit marketing needs, AI agents to collaborate to produce content and automatically split accounts. (Does it sound like e-commerce operation integration?)
Technically, all agents broadcast their status through the Coral Protocol message format to ensure cross-language interoperability.
It can support scalability of 10 parallel jobs, and the mainnet opens 3-5 external agents to access. It supports automatic loan release after a single job is completed