AI agents are getting wallets: the Web3 infrastructure behind the machine economy
THE SO WHAT
Putting wallets in agents turns them from tools into economic actors that can transact, allocate, and coordinate without a human in the loop. If you’re building SaaS or marketplaces, start thinking about APIs and policies for machine customers, not just human ones.
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