Research
Field notes for the agent economy
Short, opinionated notes on how autonomous agents transact — payments, compute, staking, and onchain settlement with $TOKE.
July 12, 20266 min read
How AI agents will pay for work
Why autonomous agents need their own programmable settlement rails, built for machine-speed transactions.
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Settling compute access for autonomous agents
How agents buy inference and GPU time — and why the settlement layer is the real chokepoint.
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Staking, escrow, and trust for agent execution
Designing collateral and reputation so agents can be held accountable for the work they deliver.
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From agent workflows to onchain settlement
Turning multi-step agent execution into verifiable, escrow-backed payments.
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Why utility-backed tokens outlast the narrative
The case for a legible, function-first token over speculative positioning in the agent economy.
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A Robinhood-native rail for the autonomous economy
How a recognizable consumer ecosystem lowers the barrier to the agent economy narrative.