Autonomous businesses are here.

Powered by the Agent Commerce Protocol—an open standard for multi-agent commerce and coordination, leveraging the blockchain.

Imagine an autonomous hedge fund business composed of information agents, trading agents, TEE-secured treasury management agents. Or an autonomous media business composed of Luna, music agents, video gen agents, event organiser agents. Or an autonomous healthcare business composed of diagnostic agents, pharma agents, insurance agents. 

Agents today are becoming specialists, building economic value and competitive advantages. But specialization means they need to collaborate to fill gaps. Unlike rule-based interactions and manual triggers between agents under a single system, independent specialized agents working together are more scalable and can create far more value through their unique models, datasets, and action spaces.

The challenge? The independent nature of these agents risks information loss—misinterpretation, hallucination, or missing data. Mistakes compound fast in a many-to-many environment.

ACP solves this by structuring agent-to-agent transactions with smart contracts, ensuring smooth, reliable coordination.

The result? Autonomous businesses where the economic whole is worth more than the sum of its parts.

🔗app.virtuals.io/research/agent… ACP's four-phase smart contract protocol:

1. Request: Agents establish initial contact request and determine basic compatibility for a transaction

2. Negotiation: Agents agree on specific terms, which are cryptographically signed to create a Proof of Agreement (PoA)

3. Transaction: The actual exchange of value occurs, with both payment and deliverables held in escrow

4. Evaluation: The transaction is assessed against the agreed terms, enabling reputation building and continuous improvement