ERC-8004 Launch Day, #1, March 15, 2026

Protocol Calls & happenings
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Agenda

Meeting Time: Tuesday, March 17, 2026 at 17:00 UTC (120 minutes)

GitHub Issue

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YouTube recording available: https://youtu.be/hB_SNF9sII8

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Meeting Summary:

The meeting focused on updates and presentations regarding the development and implementation of ERC 8004, a protocol for distributed agent registries, with participants sharing progress on integrations, applications, and future roadmap plans. Several presenters demonstrated various implementations including agent commerce protocols, data services, and marketplace applications, while discussing challenges in agent economies and the evolution of AI agents. The session concluded with discussions on the future of AI agents, agentic economies, and plans for enhancing the 8004 protocol through new features and integrations.

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The meeting began with technical setup and welcoming participants, with over 50 people joining the session. Marco was sharing music during the wait for all attendees to join. The meeting was about to start with introductions when the transcript ended, though the specific topic of the presentation was not clearly established in the provided segment.

Marco reflected on the significant progress made with ERC 8004 over the past six months, highlighting its adoption by over 20 blockchains and its role in establishing a distributed agent registry. He identified key challenges facing agent economies, including the need for useful, secure, and trustworthy agents, and outlined the roadmap for the next quarter, which focuses on improving data quality, enhancing validation processes, and introducing incentives for community projects. Marco emphasized the importance of connecting with Web2 AI builders to demonstrate the practical applications of their work and stressed the need to focus on agent usefulness and service integration to drive growth in the broader AI space.

David from OLAS presented on their integration of ERC804, highlighting how they bridged their existing on-chain agent registry with the new standard. He demonstrated both consumer-focused and business-focused applications, including their Pearl app for agent discovery and their marketplace where agents can offer services like prediction tools. David explained that their current marketplace relies on reputation-based assurance for service delivery, and mentioned their plans to scale the marketplace while working with partners on specific use cases.

Celeste presented ACP (Agent Commerce Protocol), a protocol for agent-to-agent commerce where jobs are recorded on-chain with escrow mechanisms and evaluator agents. She demonstrated how ACP integrates with ERC 8004’s reputation registry system, showing how agent ratings and reviews are recorded on-chain and displayed in the platform. Celeste also explained their work on ERC 8131, which extends escrow functionality to increase trust in jobs by keeping funds in escrow until job completion and evaluation.

Jason from Redstone presented on how their platform provides data services to support AI agents operating on-chain, particularly in the context of ERC8004 identity standards. He explained that Redstone serves as a data layer, offering secure on-chain data feeds including prices, net asset values, and DeFi risk ratings through their Credora acquisition. Erik followed with a discussion on the evolution of AI agents from static to dynamic capabilities, proposing a definition of agents as intelligent, personalized, capable, and background compute. He also addressed how AI agents challenge traditional internet economic models based on advertising, suggesting that direct payment mechanisms like X402 may become necessary to sustain content creation.

Erik discussed the evolution of internet standards and emphasized the importance of open standards in creating positive sum dynamics. He explained how companies like Google succeeded by embracing open standards, while those like AOL failed by creating walled gardens. Nenad presented on virtual agentic economies, outlining the need for infrastructure to support coordination between agents at scale, including persistent identity, reputation systems, and transaction verification. He also discussed the potential for agents to conduct scientific research and address societal challenges, while highlighting the importance of robustness and safety measures in agentic markets. The discussion touched on intelligent delegation between agents and humans, emphasizing the need for contract-first decomposition and monitoring systems to handle failures effectively.

Nenad agreed to share his presentation slides publicly on X and LinkedIn for those interested in following his work on agent economies and commerce. YQ presented an update on the EO4 scan, highlighting its features including indexing, search scoring, and authentication across over 30 chains, with recent additions including Solana support and a mobile app. Paul from Zyfy began presenting on their platform’s mission to bring adoption and trust to low RIS DeFi, though the transcript ended before he could complete his presentation.

Paul presented Zyfy, a platform that deploys segregated smart wallets for Web3 users to manage DFI yield, with $2 billion moved on-chain and $8 million under management across 4 chains. Bond.Credit shared their evolution from Bolt’s autonomous agent to full autonomous agents, introducing a credit scoring system focused on stability rather than peak performance, and announced their upcoming watchtower launch next week. David from Agent Zero demonstrated new SDK features including semantic search and agent-to-agent communication tools, showing how agents can discover and pay other agents to complete tasks.

Loaf from Daydreams presented a vision for the future of AI agents by 2028, predicting significant advancements in model capabilities and the emergence of task markets and agentic economies. He demonstrated their live task market platform at market.daydreams.systems, which allows agents to complete tasks and earn rewards through a decentralized marketplace. Davide provided closing remarks on the 8004 protocol’s roadmap, highlighting plans to make 8004 the default discovery layer, develop a TE key registry, and integrate with emerging protocols like ERC8183 for conditional payments. The team emphasized the importance of building new data APIs, agent networks with value exchange, and incorporating decentralization, privacy, and security into emerging protocols.

Next Steps:

  • vitto: Share the meeting recording on the 8004 Builders Group on Telegram
  • Erik: Send presentation slides to vitto and Marco on Telegram
  • Marco: Send message to David (regarding something discussed before the meeting)
  • Marco: Share updates on incentives for high-leverage community projects soon
  • Marco: Continue working on X402 payments as reputation collateral extension for the facilitator
  • Marco: Work on validation registry with address book of verified keys approach
  • Davide: Work on TE key registry to be ready in April or early May
  • Paul (Zyfy): Launch watchtower dashboard in early next week
  • Paul (Zyfy): Release new dashboard coming soon
  • YQ (8004 scan): Release crypto-focused general agent that can be launched via one click
  • loaf (Daydreams): Ship version 2 of the task market
  • 8004 team: Plan next event specifically about reputation next month
  • 8004 team: Register all X402 services as they come online on 8004
  • 8004 team: Work on deeper coupling and seamless integration with X402, 8183, and other emerging standards

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