EVM Part II: The Journey of Smart Contracts from Solidity code to Bytecode - 1st Section
Machines can now hire other machines. Not through API keys, or subscriptions, or a human clicking "approve" on a payment screen. Through an Ethereum standard — with escrow, evaluation, and enforceable service agreements baked into the smart contract. ERC-8183 is the Agentic Commerce Protocol. It defines how an AI
ERC-8004 gave agents an identity. It forgot they live on more than one chain. Three months after launch, the standard has ~200,000 registered agents across 23+ chains. That number reads like adoption. Look closer and it reads like a problem. Every one of those agents is registered on a
ERC-8004 is not what you think it is. Most people hear "trustless agents" and assume the standard delivers trustlessness out of the box. It does not. What it delivers is something more modest and — honestly — more useful at this stage: a coordination primitive that gives AI agents on-chain
A detailed overview of how I made my TAP projects for AI Agents on Chain. Last week I introduced TAP — canonical identity and aggregated reputation for fragmented ERC-8004 agents. This one goes deeper. I broke down every component: how TAPRegistry derives a deterministic agent ID from a single wallet, how