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Infrastructure Pillars for Autonomous Agents
Virtuals Protocol has outlined infrastructure requirements for autonomous AI agents, arguing that traditional systems fail because they assume human operators rather than persistent, value-holding entities. The framework centers on Identity – featuring proposed ERC-8004 standard with on-chain wallets as immutable identifiers plus reputation registries – and Commerce – an Agent Commerce Protocol enabling discovery, standardized negotiations, and trustless escrow. All agents deployed on Virtuals currently receive onchain wallets by default.
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