Exchanges are advancing AI much faster than traditional internet companies, because they’re inherently made up of people who love to tinker. Who knows, maybe the line between crypto companies and AI companies will blur in the future. This month, OKX released the Agent Payments Protocol whitepaper. x402 addresses 'How AI makes a payment,' while APP tackles 'How AI starts a company.' Escrow refers to Upwork-style intermediary markets for 'dispute resolution after delivery,' which theoretically could be replaced by a simple Telegram conversation. This time, OKX didn’t compete with Coinbase over the HTTP layer, but instead went straight to IM, XMTP, and QR. https://web3.(okx.com)/whitepaper/okx-app-whitepaper.pdf