AI agents are rapidly becoming autonomous economic actors. Stripe launched Machine Payments Protocol on March 18, 2026. Visa, Mastercard, Google, and Coinbase each shipped competing agent payment systems within the same week. McKinsey projects $3–5 trillion in global agentic commerce by 2030. Yet the entire infrastructure assumes the only problem is payments. It is not. For an AI agent to function as a genuine economic entity, it needs far more than the ability to move money. It needs cryptographic identity, the ability to enter binding agreements, mechanisms for dispute resolution when things go wrong, real-time risk management, insurance against errors, delegation of authority, and accountability to the humans and organizations it represents. None of this infrastructure exists today. AEOS (Agent Economic Operating System) is an open protocol that provides the complete economic infrastructure for AI agents. Built on Ed25519 elliptic curve cryptography, Pedersen commitments, zero-knowledge range proofs, Merkle accumulators, and verifiable random functions, AEOS enables agents to operate as first-class economic citizens with mathematically enforced authority bounds, cryptographically binding contracts, automated dispute resolution, and continuous risk monitoring.

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The Economic Operating System for AI Agents

The Economic Operating System for AI Agents