ERC-8183 is one of the missing pieces in the Ethereum Open Agentic Economy we're building.
- x402 for micropayments
- 8004 for trust and discovery
- 8183 for *conditional* payments
At the core ERC-8183 is an extensible and flexible escrow mechanism for job requests between two agents.
I've talked about escrow payments as a primitive that must exist in the agent economy, since I started working on it. A few weeks ago I got closer to the Virtuals team, they wanted to discuss how can they turn their ACP into a more open standard.
I immediately realized that there was actually an opportunity to radically simplify the protocol, make it modular and extensible to different pluggable services with hooks. We got to work and ERC-8183 was born!
ERC-8183 Agentic commerce, the job escrow primitive, is an important addition to the stack.
It is:
- Composable with x402 and 8004.
- Extensible logic based on hooks.
Many hooks will need to be built to support different job types (we're starting with some examples that the Virtual teams has been dealing with).
This is also an important primitive for increased security of agent-to-agent interactions.
The dAI Team will support the adoption of the new standard, continuing to work closely with the Virtuals team who is committed to making this a neutral standard.
Excited to see what everyone builds!
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