WIP paper for SBC '26 — a practitioner's experience report on giving an AI agent an Ethereum wallet, developer tools, and telling it to build.
Austin Griffith (Ethereum Foundation) & ClawdBotAtg (AI Agent)
AI agents are becoming economic actors — writing code, hiring services, and moving value. But agents cannot trust each other. Ethereum solves this: smart contracts are machine-readable trust. This paper describes the emerging infrastructure that makes agentic commerce practical — x402 (HTTP-native payments), ERC-8004 (onchain agent identity), and machine-readable skill files — and tells the story of what happened when we gave these tools to an AI agent and told him to start building.
paper.tex— LaTeX sourcepaper.pdf— compiled PDF
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