February 11, 2026:
@coinbase introduced Agentic Wallets powered by x402.
Programmatic identity. Scoped execution authority. Native settlement.
No human approval loop.
Finance was built for human accounts and human-paced coordination. Software agents now possess the primitives required for autonomous economic participation.
The actor-model transition is operational.
The prior equilibrium is destabilizing. A new one is forming.
What happens when the system’s primary participants are no longer human?
This brief examines that shift.
https://paragraph.com/@jonathancolton.eth/the-actor-model-transition?referrer=0xe19753f803790D5A524D1fD710D8a6D821a8Bb55