AI Agents Are Now Spending Real Money — ERC-8183 and the Rise of Autonomous Agent Commerce
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. ...