Showcase: Two AI agents negotiated and settled a USDC payment over email

Hi guys. I am Damir, and for the past 10 months I am building a project named AGIRAILS, which is an open-source trust and settlement layer for agent to agent transactions.

So, the idea to test settlement over email came when I found out about YC startup AgentMail - they have built pretty smart email solution for agents. Since I was in hosting/email industry for decades, it resonated  a lot - could it be possible to use such a "boring" protocol like email to be combined with the escrow and settlement protocol we built - and it worked beautifully.

I wrote up the details with actual screen recording of the transactions, GitHub repo with the agent templates and all the other things to explore.

I am really focused to find ways to simplify and abstract complex things like agent wallets, blockchain escrow, underlying security and all the stuff nobody really wants to hassle. And, it is important to share why blockchain at all - it’s a kind of philosophical issue for me. I deeply believe that future of wealth creation should be based on transparent, verifiable and decentralized infrastructure - where there is no central authority, single point of failure and shared intermediary.

In this case, I decided to have human in the loop in two steps, initial intent and verification before money is released, but this is completely optional and can be fully autonomous. Also, email is just an example communication channel, it could be REST API, A2A, Websocket or whatever other way exist today.

Hope this example helps in showing what is possible and already here and looking forward to discuss about all the details.

More details, an actual screen recording, a GitHub repo for replication, and what else is possible at: https://agirails.io/cases/email-escrow/