The Agentic Manifesto

AI Agents are the new customers. They're browsing APIs, comparing prices, and making purchases autonomously. But the payment infrastructure wasn't built for them—it was built for humans with credit cards and monthly subscriptions.

The economics are broken. Traditional payment processors charge $0.30 + 3% per transaction. For a $0.10 API call, that's a 330% fee. Agents need to make thousands of small transactions. The current system makes that impossible.

SaaS subscriptions don't work either. Users don't want to commit $20/month for something they might use twice. They want to pay for what they actually use—a few cents per call when they need it. The subscription model forces builders to either overprice their product or lose money on light users.

Then there's the platform problem. You list your agent on a marketplace and build up hundreds of 5-star reviews over months of hard work. Then the platform changes their terms, raises their fees to 30%, or gets acquired and shut down. Your reputation—the thing you spent months building—disappears overnight. You're back to zero on the next platform, competing against established players with no track record.

This is the fundamental barrier to the agent economy. We have the technology to build autonomous software that does useful work. We don't have the infrastructure to let that software participate in commerce.

Agentokratia is the Stripe for agents, on the blockchain. We're building the complete stack for agent commerce—four products that work together to let agents transact autonomously, with you in control:

Settlement: Instant payments. Add one line to your API and start accepting payments. Sellers get paid instantly on every request. Buyers pay per-use, no subscriptions. No billing system, no payment integration. Escrow protection coming soon. This is live now.

Marketplace: Get discovered. List your API, set your price, reach agents looking for services. Reputation builds with every transaction. Settlement happens automatically.

Wallet: Built-in rules. Smart wallets that let agents hold funds with guardrails you define. Spending limits, approved services, time limits—all enforced automatically. Your agents hold funds. You hold the keys.

ID: Portable credentials. Verifiable credentials that prove what your agent can do. Set permissions, spending limits, expiration—all signed and revocable. Your reputation travels with you.

Two things changed in the past two years that make this possible for the first time.

First, agents are real. Claude, GPT, and other AI systems can now actually complete useful tasks autonomously. They can write code, analyze data, generate content, manage workflows, and interact with APIs. They're not just chatbots anymore—they're workers. And workers need to get paid. The demand side of the agent economy has arrived.

Second, blockchain infrastructure got cheap. Layer 2 networks like Base reduced transaction costs by 99%. What cost $5-50 in gas fees on Ethereum mainnet now costs $0.001 on Base. Account abstraction (ERC-4337) eliminated the need for seed phrases and browser extensions. Stablecoins like USDC provide price stability without the volatility of native tokens. The supply side—the infrastructure—is finally ready.

These two trends are converging right now. We're at the exact moment where demand for agent commerce meets viable infrastructure to support it. The window is open to build the foundational layer that connects them.

The stack consists of four products that work together. Each is designed to be simple, composable, and non-custodial. Use one or use all—they're built to work independently or together.

Settlement is the starting point. Add instant payments to any API endpoint. Sellers get paid immediately on every request—no invoices, no chasing. Buyers pay per-use with stablecoins. No billing system to build, no payment integration to maintain. Escrow protection coming soon. This is live on mainnet today.

Marketplace is where agents find services. List your API with pricing and capabilities. Agents browse, compare, and purchase autonomously. Reputation builds automatically with every transaction.

Wallet gives agents the ability to hold and spend funds with guardrails. Set spending limits, approved services, and time constraints—all enforced by smart contracts. Your agents can transact autonomously within the rules you define.

ID provides verifiable credentials that prove what an agent can do. Issue scoped permissions that travel with the agent. Revoke access anytime. Build reputation that belongs to you, not to any platform.

For builders, getting started is simple:

For agents, it's seamless. They discover services, fund their wallet, and start transacting—all within the rules their owner defined. No subscriptions, no manual approvals. Just autonomous commerce that works.

Reputation is the hardest problem in agent commerce. When you're paying for software to do work autonomously, you need to know it actually works. You can't inspect every output manually. You need signals you can trust.

Traditional platforms solve this with reviews and ratings, but those systems are fundamentally broken. Platforms can delete negative reviews under pressure. Fake reviews can be purchased. When you leave a platform, your reputation stays behind. The trust you built belongs to the platform, not to you.

Our solution puts reputation on-chain, providing three guarantees that traditional systems cannot:

This creates a fundamentally different trust model. Builders have real skin in the game—their permanent reputation is on the line with every transaction. Users can make informed decisions based on verifiable history. And the system works even if Agentokratia itself becomes untrustworthy, because the trust layer doesn't depend on us.

The protocol is built on battle-tested infrastructure, chosen specifically for low-cost, high-frequency transactions. Every component has been selected for reliability, cost-efficiency, and developer experience.

Base L2 provides the transaction layer. As a Coinbase-backed Layer 2 on Ethereum, Base offers the security guarantees of Ethereum with transaction costs under $0.01. This makes micropayments economically viable for the first time.

USDC provides payment stability. Unlike volatile cryptocurrencies, USDC is pegged 1:1 to the US dollar. Builders know exactly what they're earning. Users know exactly what they're spending. No currency risk, no conversion friction.

ERC-4337 (Account Abstraction) enables smart wallets that don't require seed phrases or browser extensions. Users authenticate with familiar methods—email, FaceID, passkeys—while maintaining full custody of their funds. This eliminates the onboarding friction that has historically limited blockchain adoption.

ERC-8004 powers the identity and reputation layer through on-chain attestations. Every review, rating, and transaction is recorded as a cryptographically signed statement that can be verified by anyone. This creates the immutable, portable reputation system that traditional platforms cannot provide.

x402 is the payment protocol that enables seamless machine-to-machine transactions with built-in escrow. Agents request payment, funds are held until delivery, then settlement happens automatically—making protected payments between software as simple as HTTP requests.

Development is structured in three phases, each unlocking new capabilities for the agent economy. We're building in public and shipping incrementally.

Your API already works. Now get paid for it. Settlement is live on mainnet. Add one line to your API and start receiving USDC payments instantly. 0% platform fees for early adopters.

The APIs that accept agent payments will win the next decade. Every day you wait, agents are paying your competitors for services you already offer. This is your infrastructure. The window is open now.

Agents will rule commerce. The question is whether you capture the value — or watch it flow to platforms that own your reputation. We built the alternative. You stay in control.

Don't just read about it—watch how Agentokratia works in real scenarios. These demos show the protocol in action, from instant settlement to agent-powered purchases.

Settlement

X402 Payment Flow

Payments settle in under a second. Instant payout to sellers.

Marketplace

Transform Any Agent into a Paywall

Monetize your AI agent or API with per-request payments.

Live Demo

AI Agent Buys a Game

Watch Claude purchase Civ3 from a Steam reseller using x402.