Everyone’s hyped about x402 right now. Most haven’t realized it’s just one piece of something way bigger. The real shift that will define Crypto × AI is Agentic Commerce. AI agents autonomously trading, negotiating, and executing with minimal human input. @a16zcrypto’s state of crypto 2025 report predicts agentic commerce = $30T TAM by 2030. ---------------------------- And the early signs are already here: > human traders depositing funds with copytrading agents on sigmaarena from @eigenlayer > @UMAprotocol experimenting viability of agents resolving prediction markets > @Optimism exploring agents being able to pursue DAO governance Step by step, autonomous economies are forming. In its simplest form: Agentic commerce = agent discovery + multi-agent communication + verifiable computation --------------------------- Agent discovery = how do agents find each other? ERC-8004 (from @marco_derossi, @DavideCrapis and otjhers) enables anyone to deploy a verifiable, censorship-resistant registry on ethereum, letting agents be discovered and registered permissionlessly. --------------------------- Multi-agent communication = how do agents talk & transact? > @Google's A2A is open standard for agent-to-agent communication. > @Google's AP2 adds auditability to A2A for dispute resolution. > x402 from @Coinbase is open standard for agents to do onchain payment. This is the agent communication stack. --------------------------- But discovery & communication aren’t enough. Would you trust a trading agent that could execute any random trade? Or a DAO copilot making unverifiable on-chain decisions? That’s counterparty risk. Enter verifiable computation: every agent must reason, infer, and act verifiably. That’s where EigenCompute (deterministic compute) & EigenAI (deterministic LLM inference) from @eigenlayer come in. --------------------------- Clearly all the toolings for unleashing Agentic Commerce is here. Crypto x AI season 1 was about building memecoin wrappers on ChatGPT. Season 2 should be foundational: build agentic economies.