Crypto

Something crossed a threshold this week that most of the AI world hasn’t noticed yet: AI agents now have a native financial standard. ERC-8183, proposed by Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team and launched commercially by Mantle, is an Ethereum token standard that enables autonomous agents to escrow, transact, and settle payments — without any human in the approval loop. This isn’t a demo or a whitepaper. Developers are already building on it. ...

Most tutorials about AI agents end with something that produces output. This one is about something different: an agent that produces income. Developer Eliott Reich documented how they built an AI agent that earns real money — not through speculation, not through selling the agent itself, but through autonomous task completion that generates actual revenue. Here’s a breakdown of how the system works and how you can build one. The Core Concept: Agents as Economic Actors The insight behind a money-earning agent is simple but consequential: if an agent can complete tasks that have economic value, and if those tasks can be reliably discovered and delivered, then the agent earns money as a byproduct of working. ...