
Agentic Payments Cannot Live on Web2
Agentic payments break on Web2 the moment a CAPTCHA appears. Smart accounts and session keys are the only real fix.
Engineering posts, research notes, and systems thinking on programmable mandates, agent wallets, paymasters, and onchain identity.
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01Agent fraud is the easy problem. The hard one is the authorized, in-mandate transaction a user regrets. Why agent payment liability is a design choice.
02AI agent infrastructure needs four primitives: identity, wallet, payments, policy. Why ERC-4337 and ERC-8004 are the foundation.
03Seed phrases give you ownership, not access continuity. Recovery has to be enforced by infrastructure, not memorized by users.
04Gasless transactions are not a pricing trick. They are an execution-layer rewrite. Here is what paymasters do and how they hold up in production.
05Standalone bundlers process UserOperations. They do not solve execution. The unified-stack argument matters more than the bundler itself.
06Onboarding drop-off in Web3 is not a UX problem. It is a wallet architecture problem. EOAs and smart accounts produce different journeys for structural reasons.
Identity, wallets, payments, and policy primitives for autonomous agent systems.
01Agent fraud is the easy problem. The hard one is the authorized, in-mandate transaction a user regrets. Why agent payment liability is a design choice.
02AI agent infrastructure needs four primitives: identity, wallet, payments, policy. Why ERC-4337 and ERC-8004 are the foundation.