Haotian
Haotian|4月 30, 2026 04:57
I heard last week that @ okx is going to launch another major project after agentic wallet, which is the Agent Payments Protocol (APP) protocol. Next, we will discuss our views on AP2, x402, ERC8183, MPP and other related protocols: 1) To be honest, my first reaction was not that it exploded too much, because Agentic Economy is now setting various protocol level infrastructure standards, and OKX has been pushing for actions at the Agent infrastructure level. It is not surprising that it has entered the market. From the earliest AP2 launched by Google to ACP, and recently @ virtualis_io and the Ethereum dAI team launched ERC-8183, but the difference this time is that the protocol was initiated by the exchange. OKX has real users, brand endorsed asset custody capabilities, multi chain liquidity, and a developer ecosystem that can cover the entire industry. Although the banner of payment protocol standards was not taken up earliest, it is highly likely to be the fastest to land and promote; 2) Why? Looking at what each protocol is addressing, the gap becomes even clearer. AP2 is the authorization layer pushed by Google. Its core solution is how users can safely entrust agents to pay on their behalf. The strong point is that the Internet's first giant endorses it, while the weak point is that it is too far away from crypto native; X402 has high expectations from Coinbase and Base, and the direction of payment channels is correct. However, after such a long period of excitement, the market generally feels that the pace of progress is not as fast as expected; ERC-8183 is designed cleanly, and the Virtuals and Ethereum dAI teams have provided a beautiful on chain job settlement primitive. However, with the standard in place, it remains a question of who will quickly fill the application ecosystem. 3) Upon careful examination of OKX's payment protocol standard white paper, it is evident that the cumulative advantages of the latter include x402's framework for integrating payment channels into encrypted assets, ERC8183 defining the execution of commercial standards for agents to collaborate and send jobs, and Stripe's MPP, which has advantages in expanding traditional payment channel providers. It seems that each protocol only addresses a certain segment of the commercial closed loop. After OKX came with the APP protocol, they directly packaged all the functions such as quotation, negotiation, employment, hosting, volume based billing, dispute arbitration, etc. between agents. In fact, they have all the functions they have, and also eliminated the protocol gaps that exist in their interactions. The usual thinking of the exchange is to focus on product and efficiency first; 4) From the perspective of the landing strategy, I have a clear feeling that OKX combines Agentic Wallet, SDK, Protocol+Broker, which feels like an out of the box Agent Commerce infrastructure. Protocol defines how agents communicate, quote, and make payments; SDK allows developers to access it with just a few lines of code; The Agentic Wallet layer is responsible for secure signatures and funds; Broker is responsible for coordination; The overall design consists of four layers: wallet (execution layer), SDK (integration layer), protocol (standard layer), and broker (coordination layer). The above. So, overall, OKX has launched payment protocol standards, and I think the biggest highlights are two: 1. The main body is an exchange with business execution and promotion capabilities in the Crypto field; 2. The protocol sets the strengths of hundreds of companies and is more likely to perform well in subsequent ecological implementation. Of course, Escrow and dispute resolution still have a coming soon, and these subsequent commercial scenarios are the key to determining what the ecosystem will be like after the standards are implemented.
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