After 3 years in limbo, BIP editors closed Casey Rodarmor’s draft to formally document the Ordinals protocol. Bitcoin NFTers cried foul, though the tech will continue regardless.
Etherscan added ERC-8004 metadata display, showing agent operational status, x402 support, and services on NFT details pages.
ERC-8004 MetadataWe made a small update to display metadata for Trustless Agents registered via the ERC-8004 Identity Registry
You can check an agent's operational status, x402 support, services, and more on the NFT details page
Developers can accept payments using:
→ EIP-3009 (Transfer with Authorization)
→ Permit2 That means tokens like USDC, EURC, or any ERC-20 token via Permit2 can now be used for onchain payments with x402.
Spaace announced the First AI-Native NFT Launchpad for AI Agents & Humans on Base.
Agents features:
scan markets 24/7
identify opportunities faster than any human
execute trades instantly
manage portfolios autonomously
What’s coming with Final Chapter:
→ Flip launchpad: the AI-native pumpfun for NFTs
→ Native LLM on Spaace & Flip
→ MCP integration (Cursor, Claude, VS Code…)
→ AI agent trading on Spaace & Flip
→ Final Chapter Battle Pass and new features
Everything goes live publicly on April 1st.
It's the institutional command center for onchain finance: stablecoins and tokenized assets. The platform answers:
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 is volume coming from? By region, country, and corridor.
𝗪𝗵𝗼 is driving it? Retail vs institutions - centralized exchanges, payments providers, treasuries, custodians and more.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 type of activity? B2B, B2C, C2B, C2C payments
In collaboration with Ethereum Foundation dAI team, Virtuals Protocol formalize ERC-8183, is an open, permissionless standard for agent commerce applications with escrow and evaluator attestation programmed as onchain smart contracts.
ERC-8183 defines a single core: the Job. Each Job consists of three parties, which are the Client, Provider and the Evaluator. Each party is defined only by its wallet address, allowing for the broad application and use of the primitive.
The key components and principles behind the Job primitive are:
job specification and description - which is a clear record of the task, service or work tied to the payment
the payment itself - which is secured in an unbiased programmed escrow until a terminal state and released programmatically,
logged, verifiable and traceable submission of deliverable protecting both the client and provider and
evaluator attestation which results in meaningful signals for recourse to the identity and reputation of parties involved - providing aligned incentives for trustless settlement.
This motivates the flow of the Job through four key states, ensuring trustless transactions: Open → Funded → Submitted → Terminal (Completed / Rejected / Expired)
In summary, a Job is first initialized when a Client creates a job with a Provider, and subsequently funds it, securing the payment in escrow. A Provider does the work and calls submit, putting the deliverable (or a reference of it) on-chain. An Evaluator reviews the submission and calls complete (releasing funds to the provider) or reject (refunding the client). If neither the provider nor the evaluator acts before the deadline (expiry time), the job expires and the client reclaims their funds.
The standard is deliberately minimal, and forms the atomic primitive. It does not specify negotiation flows, fee structures, dispute resolution, communication protocols, or discovery mechanisms. It specifies the core job lifecycle, the minimum viable surface for trustless agent commerce.
A content evaluation job, a token swap, and a prediction market position each require fundamentally different logic.
ERC-8183 solves this with hooks. A hook is an optional smart contract attached to a Job at creation.
ERC-8183 does not exist in isolation. It is symbiotic with ERC-8004 ("Trustless Agents"), the Ethereum standard for agent identity, reputation, and validation.
Discovery (8004) → Commerce (8183) → Reputation (8004) → Better Discovery → More Trustless Commerce.
The EEZ is an L1-L2 framework centered around synchronous composability, i.e. real-time interoperability.
In other words, rollups plugged into the EEZ will be able to call contracts on the L1 or other L2s and receive a response in a single transaction. This will power atomic executions across chains so that it will feel like you're just using a single chain.
In this sense, contracts on EEZ chains will work as if they did in fact live on the same chain. Transactions will complete atomically across the relevant networks, or not fire at all in the case of some error.
This week Stripe launched MPP (Machine Payments Protocol).
Tempo is a payments-optimized L1 EVM chain. MPP is an open,HTTP-based protocolfor agent-to-machine payments that revives the long-dormant HTTP 402 status code, just like x402, although with a different architectural philosophy.
Sites that serve expensive or time-sensitive data — prices, hotel bookings, specialized datasets — are starting to charge for access. Everyday or low-value content is still free to scrape via caching or proxies. Scraping isn't disappearing, but it's splitting into free stuff and paid stuff. That's what made x402 and MPP necessary.
Cloudflare is the layer between websites and the people visiting them. It protects sites from attacks, speeds up load times, and handles traffic at scale. About 20% of all websites use it, making it one of the most consequential chokepoints on the internet.
Cloudflare has a direct view of the bot traffic surge and the scraping pressure weighing on the public (and private) internet — pressure they're building to address.
FLast year, they launched pay-per-crawl, enabling websites to charge AI bots micropayments for scraping, rather than blocking them outright. When a bot hits a page, it either pays and gets access or gets a 402 "Payment Required" response with pricing. Cloudflare handles billing.
Cloudflare launched the x402 Foundation with Coinbase. A few days later, they announced the NET Dollar, a stablecoin for agentic payments.
In other words, Cloudflare is building both the walls and the windows. The blocking tools and the paid-access tools. They decide what gets shut out and what gets let in — and on what terms. That position is what makes their next decision so consequential.
Who will help Cloudflare launch the NET Dollar is still an open question, with "Coinbase and ZeroHash among the companies" competing for the deal. That phrasing leaves room for others, like, say, Stripe.
NET Dollar is being built as the default currency for pay-per-crawl and Cloudflare's other paid-access services. Whoever issues it will see their standard prioritized in Cloudflare's stack. If Coinbase issues NET Dollar, Cloudflare has reason to keep building around x402. If Stripe issues it, MPP gets that tailwind instead. Given that Cloudflare handles a fifth of the web and is building the infrastructure for both blocking and monetizing bot traffic, that prioritization shapes what will become the default across a meaningful chunk of the internet.
Top-5 agents by score
Toppa is a financial services AI agent for telecommunications and digital payments. Enables mobile airtime top-ups, data bundles, utility bill payments (electricity, water, internet, TV), and gift card purchases across 170+ countries. Payment infrastructure powered by Celo blockchain stablecoins (cUSD) using the x402 micropayment protocol.
Cross-chain insights for the ERC-8004 AI agent ecosystem
The Agent Payments Stack is an independent research project mapping every company building infrastructure for AI agent payments. It is maintained by Jordan Lyall, CPO at Art Blocks and builder of mint.day.
Agent Payment Volume (APV) is the canonical on-chain metric for AI agent payment activity — the TVL equivalent for agentic commerce. Tracks USDC volume settled by AI agent payment protocols over a rolling 30-day window.
Protocol Comparison
BTC, ETH dominance increased in March.
Listed below are ETFs (exchange-traded funds) invested in cryptocurrencies, Assets under management (AUM).
Total Cryptos Created last 30d are 11,055,828. There was something strange in Base.
but it looks like the issue at the Coinmarketcap side.
The CMC20 index is up slightly.
According Defillama, an indexes protocols' TVL is $342.82M. TVL decreased.
Top 6 indexes protocols by revenue in March 2026.
AI index is the leader by ROI last month on SoSoValue.
The SoSoValue AI Index ("ssiRAI") targets the most valuable and tradable tokens in the sector. TAO is driving the entire index.
Sectors & subsectors by Mindshare in March 2026, according Messari.
Major Reasons for the Mindshare Spike in the DePIN:
Proven Revenue and Scalability: Major protocols have demonstrated significant financial traction. Solana-based DePIN protocols, including Helium and Render, generated $2.4 million in collective revenue in February 2026. Dabba Network reported nearly $10 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with 700,000 daily active users, while Perceptron Network surpassed 700,000 nodes.
Integration of Native AI Compute: The convergence of DePIN and AI has become a primary narrative. Recent updates, such as the AIOZ DePIN CLI v1.2.6, have integrated native AI compute workloads directly into the DePIN lifecycle. Other projects like Acurast are turning hundreds of thousands of smartphones into a decentralized cloud for Large Language Model (LLM) inference.
Shift to Verifiable Physical Work: To resolve credibility issues, the sector is moving toward "Proof-of-Physical-Work" and on-chain verification. Fry Networks recently integrated Autonomys Network’s "Auto Drive" to provide permanent, tamper-proof storage for real-world operational metrics, making node activity and geographic coverage independently auditable.
Expansion of Wireless and Telecom Infrastructure: The wireless sector reached new all-time highs in data offloading, with Helium Mobile, Dabba, and XNET offloading 37,000 terabytes of data in February, a 12% increase from the previous month.
Evolution of Tokenomic Models: Projects are implementing more sustainable economic structures. The Akash Network introduced the Burn-Mint Equilibrium (BME) model to create consistent buy pressure on its native token while maintaining stable USD pricing for compute tenants.
Major Reasons for the Mindshare Spike in the Interoperability Sub-Sector:
Major Institutional Integrations: In late March 2026, the Canton Network, an institutional blockchain backed by Goldman Sachs, integrated with the LayerZero interoperability protocol. This allows traditional financial (TradFi) institutions to route tokenized assets across more than 165 blockchains, connecting Canton’s $350 billion daily U.S. Treasury repo volume with LayerZero’s $100 billion ecosystem.
Push for Global Standards by Market Leaders: Major financial infrastructure firms, including DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear, published joint research advocating for a "network-of-networks" model. They warned that without standardized interoperability, digital assets risk being trapped in isolated pools with high operational costs and fragmented liquidity.
Wholesale CBDC Progress: Europe’s Project Pontes, the Eurosystem’s DLT solution for wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies (wCBDC), removed its "pilot" label in mid-March in preparation for a full production launch. Pontes serves as a critical interoperability layer connecting various market DLT platforms with the Eurosystem.
Growth in Cross-Chain Activity: Rango reported a 283.9% year-over-year increase in daily transactions, highlighting the rapid adoption of multi-chain strategies.
Consensus and Technical Upgrades: Major networks are upgrading to support higher throughput and better cross-chain communication. For instance, The Open Network (TON) released updates in March 2026 to improve consensus stability and interoperability testing ahead of its "Catchain 2.0" upgrade, which targets sub-second finality.
