Hope everyone’s been keeping an eye on the news about 8004 going live recently. The project @agenttech that we’ve been following has now opened its Alpha testing phase. I personally interacted with a few accounts first. The reason I’ve been paying attention to this project is mainly because they’ve implemented some pretty impressive tech. 1. Cross-chain Abstraction (Chain Abstraction): Developers no longer need to deal with complex cross-chain logic. Settlement and routing are encapsulated and executed in the background, completely transparent to the application layer. 2. ABC2ABC Model: It’s not just User-to-Contract but supports full-scenario flows like Agent -> Business -> Consumer. This is what machine-native commerce truly looks like. 3. x402 Execution Semantics: Using Email/Agent ID as an Endpoint solves the identity verification and value transfer issues between AI Agents. How to interact easily (each wallet interaction costs about 0.2u): 1. Wallet ➜ Transfer to email (Gmail only) 2. Log in to the dashboard using your email 3. Transfer back to your wallet The experience is pretty smooth overall. Anyway, interact with multiple accounts to accumulate points. Who knows, if x402 and 8004 really take off, there might be some rewards in store. Always DYOR.