Your agent just got an identity, a voice, and a wallet in one SDK.
8004 for identity. A2A for communication. x402 for payments.
Live now on agent0 SDK. Here's how it works ↓
Your agent just got an identity, a voice, and a wallet in one SDK.
8004 for identity. A2A for communication. x402 for payments.
Live now on agent0 SDK. Here's how it works ↓
Most agentic security systems offer 80-90% protection against prompt injection & jailbreaking.
CEOs are leaping to automate mundane processes, but they will hit a brick wall when the CISO tells them that most things require giving an LLM-powered agent access to liabilities like PII or financial transaction approvals to actually take humans out of the loop.
No one will sign off on ''only getting exploited 10% of the time''. Solving this is the key to the next evolution of the agent economy.
Agent security is a moving target, and we won't see a blossoming agent economy until businesses can use agents to handle more valuable work.
Prompt injections are just the tip.
This was a key topic among attendees of Langchain Interrupt in San Francisco this year.
@LinkedIn
The limiting factor for agents participating in the economy is their security.
Security is not a firewall.
It's knowing who your agent is doing business with, how long they've been around, and how that affects their policies.
That's just part of it.
a16z just dropped the billion-dollar opportunities in AI for 2026.
three partners. three theses. same underlying bet.
Marc Andrusko: the prompt box is dying.
next-gen apps observe what you're doing and act on your behalf.
TAM shifted from $ 400B software spend to $ 13T labor spend.
market got 30x bigger.
Stephanie Zhang: stop designing for humans.
start designing for agents.
agents read every word on the page. visual hierarchy stops mattering.
GEO is the new SEO.
Olivia Moore: voice agents ate the phone in 2025.
healthcare, banking, recruiting, 911 calls.
voice AI beats humans on compliance every single time.
some companies now slow their agents down to sound human.
every thesis converges on the same layer.
the harness around the model is where the leverage compounds.
full breakdown of how the shift happened below.
The machine economy is a parallel world.
While concepts like identity, reputation, and trust are required just like in the human economy, the implementation is different.
@a16zcrypto is calling out the need for blockchain to solve identity for AI Agents (broadly gesturing at ERC-8004).
We addressed the core problems that developers can solve in the article our team published a couple of weeks ago.
Since releasing this article the quantity of easily discoverable, high quality agents jumped from 170 to 1300.
There's more work to be done 👇
https://t.co/twyyvfZtnu
The machine economy is a parallel world.
While concepts like identity, reputation, and trust are required just like in the human economy, the implementation is different.
@a16zcrypto is calling out the need for blockchain to solve identity for AI Agents (broadly gesturing at ERC-8004).
We addressed the core problems that developers can solve in the article our team published a couple of weeks ago.
Since releasing this article the quantity of easily discoverable, high quality agents jumped from 170 to 1300.
There's more work to be done 👇
https://t.co/twyyvfZtnu
@thespawnio@marco_derossi For builders to make use of the agents, we need to know which agents are actually online & providing activity.
Thank you for the work.
Coinbase is testing AI agents that show up in slack/email at work, just like any human teammate. To start we're shipping two which are modeled after legendary former Coinbase employees, @FEhrsam and @balajis. (Who brutally frame mogged who in this matchup?)
Soon, it will be easy for any employee to spin up a new agent for themselves or their team. I suspect we will have more agents than human employees at some point soon.
Meanwhile, here's searches for HERMES AGENT
We believe that the OpenClaw trough cycle was largely driven by the massive risk of configuring OpenClaw agents to have any actual utility.
@NousResearch what are your thoughts?
''Within two hours of starting their red team raid, they ... were able to access 46.5 million chat messages about strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and client engagements, all in plaintext, along with 728,000 files containing confidential client data, 57,000 user accounts, and 95 system prompts controlling the AI's behavior. These prompts were all writable, meaning an attacker could poison everything Lilli spits out to all of the tens of thousands of consultants using the chatbot.''
We need to solve agent security before the agentic economy can exist.
https://t.co/yIIMHiJZ2J
''The curation signals produced by one agent's research become available to every other agent on the network, and the standing of every curator is visible to anyone evaluating those signals.''
Interesting way to provide quality signals about an agent, for agents! @0xIntuition