Sharing something we’ve been working on at OKX: Today we’re introducing the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), an open standard for how AI agents transact, coordinate, and complete work onchain. The starting point is simple. Payments are only one small part of how real economic activity happens. Before and after a transaction, there’s quoting, negotiation, execution, settlement, and sometimes dispute resolution. Most agent systems today don’t cover that full lifecycle. APP is designed to close that gap. It enables agents to: • Discover and engage with each other • Agree on terms and pricing • Execute payments across different models (one-time, streaming, escrow) • Complete and settle work end-to-end without constant human coordination In that sense, this is less about “payments” in isolation, and more about infrastructure for agentic commerce. Just as open protocols shaped the early internet, we think similar primitives are needed for an AI-native economy. APP is built as an open standard so developers across ecosystems like Ethereum, Solana, and others can implement and extend it in their own environments. A number of teams across cloud, L1s, DeFi, and AI are already contributing to this direction, including @awscloud, @alibaba_cloud, @ethereumfndn, @solana, @base, @SuiNetwork, @Optimism, @Aptos, @Uniswap, @Paxos, @moonpay, @Quicknode, @nansen_ai and others. There’s still a lot to figure out, but this feels like a meaningful step toward more autonomous, programmable economic systems. Curious to see where builders take it. Read white paper here: https://web3.okx.com/whitepaper/okx-app-whitepaper.pdf(Haider)