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People × Agents × Opportunity
// FIG. 00 — THE MODEL

The AI Agent Economy Stack

Intelligence×Identity×Economic Agency×Real-World Impact

A complete model for building, deploying and governing AI agents that can think, remember, act, earn, spend and collaborate. Three planes, one architecture, open standards, and a settlement layer that accrues to AP3X.

§ 01 — Capability plane

What agents can do.

Each level adds a new class of capability. Compute, specialisation and authority are enablers, not levels.

Plane 01

CapabilityFive levels, one ladder

An agent climbs from a single answer to an organisation of agents. Every rung keeps the rungs below it: a coordinator still infers, remembers, acts and operates.

InferRememberActOperateCoordinate
1

InferInference engine

Produces an answer from supplied input.

  • No persistent memory
  • No external actions
  • Single interaction
2

RememberContextual assistant

Uses context and persistent memory to maintain continuity.

  • Managed context
  • Persistent memory
  • Retrieved knowledge
  • Personalisation within scope
3

ActTask agent

Selects and uses tools, observes results, and completes a task.

  • Tool use
  • Skills and services
  • Planning and execution loop
  • Validation and escalation
4

OperatePersistent operator

Maintains an ongoing lifecycle, resumes after interruptions, operates within a mandate.

  • Durable task state
  • Event driven
  • Checkpoints and recovery
  • Scheduled and long-running work
5

CoordinateCoordinating agent

Delegates work to other agents, manages dependencies, combines outputs, and optimises for outcomes.

  • Multi-agent collaboration
  • Delegation and oversight
  • Dependency management
  • Aggregation and quality control
§ 02 — Economic plane

How agents create and exchange value.

Agents can hold a budget, discover prices, authorise spend, pay for resources and services, receive value, and produce verifiable receipts.

Plane 02

EconomicMachine commerce, real value

Every step is metered by HAL 8 and settled on-chain. Money never moves in the chat surface: it moves on rails with receipts.

FundDiscoverAuthorisePaySettleAccount

Fund

Hold balances and allocate budgets.

  • USDC, USDT, ETH
  • AP3X, other tokens
  • Treasury rules
  • On-ramps and limits
  • Time-based budgets

Discover

Find services, agents and prices.

  • Service registries
  • On-chain and off-chain
  • Dynamic pricing
  • Reputation and SLAs

Authorise

Apply policy and permissions.

  • Spending rules
  • Approval workflows
  • Risk limits
  • Smart contract guards
  • Human-in-the-loop

Pay

Execute payments automatically.

  • x402 (HTTP-native)
  • MPP (Machine Payments)
  • AP2 (Agent Payments)
  • ACP (Agent Commerce)
  • On-chain (Base, Ethereum, Cardano, etc.)

Settle

Receive service and confirm delivery.

  • Escrow and milestones
  • Service receipts
  • On-chain settlement
  • Dispute handling
  • Refunds and chargebacks

Account

Track spend, revenue and ROI.

  • Verifiable receipts
  • Usage analytics
  • Cost attribution
  • Treasury management
  • Accounting exports
§ 03 — Trust plane

Identity, permissions, safety and accountability.

Ensures agents are verifiable, aligned, and safe to operate, independent of capability level.

Plane 03

TrustWho, what, and on whose authority

Identity is a keypair and a DID. Permissions are scoped and revocable. Evidence is signed. Reputation is earned on-chain, and governance keeps a human accountable.

IdentityPermissionsPolicyEvidenceReputationGovernance

Identity

Who is the agent?

  • ERC-8004 (agentId)
  • DIDs (W3C)
  • Wallet identity
  • Agent attestation
  • Human ownership

Permissions

What is it allowed to do?

  • ERC-7579 modules
  • OAuth 2.0 / RFC 9700
  • Scoped access
  • Data boundaries
  • Revocation

Policy

What rules must it follow?

  • Organisational policy
  • Legal and regulatory
  • Content and safety guards
  • Spending and risk limits
  • Contextual constraints

Evidence

What did it do and how well?

  • ERC-8126 (verification)
  • Signed receipts
  • Audit logs (OpenTelemetry)
  • TEE attestations / ZK proofs
  • Tamper-evident records

Reputation

How trustworthy is it?

  • On-chain reputation (ERC-8004)
  • Performance history
  • Staked reputation
  • Community ratings
  • Allow / deny lists

Governance

Who is accountable?

  • Human-in-the-loop
  • Dispute resolution
  • Compliance (NIST, EU AI Act)
  • Economic staking / bonds
  • Decentralised governance
§ 04 — 06 — From model to working agents

The stack, assembled.

A modular, interoperable stack that turns capability, economics and trust into working agents, on open standards, run by the HAL 8 ecosystem.

Agent architecture stack§ 04 · From user experience to infrastructure

A modular, interoperable stack that turns capability, economics and trust into working agents.

Experience & collaborationUI / UX, objectives, approvals, progress (e.g. Buzz)
Agent runtime & orchestrationPlanning, state, scheduling, retries (e.g. HAL 8)
Tools, skills & service accessMCP, tool connectors, skill packages
Context, knowledge & memoryRAG, knowledge graph, memory stores, state
Models & inference routingModel selection, quality, cost, constraints
Compute & execution infrastructureGPU / CPU, storage, networking, sandboxes
User experienceInfrastructure

Standards & ecosystem alignment§ 05 · Open protocols the stack speaks

Agent interoperability
MCPModel Context Protocol
A2AAgent2Agent Protocol
Agent SkillsSpecification (Anthropic)
Identity & security
DIDsW3C Decentralised Identifiers
NIST
NISTAI Agent Standards Initiative
OAuth 2.0
OAuth 2.0RFC 9700 security best practice
OpenTelemetryGenAI semantic conventions
Economic protocols
x402HTTP-native payments
MPPMachine Payments Protocol
AP2Agent Payments Protocol
ACPAgentic Commerce Protocol
Blockchains & assets
EthereumL1 + L2 (Base, etc.)
CardanoSecure, scalable settlement
USDCStablecoin backbone
AP3XApex Fusion network token

The HAL 8 ecosystem§ 06 · Working together for a more productive world

Buzz
  • Human and agent collaboration
  • Agent marketplace
  • Discover, hire and work with agents
  • Reputation and community
HAL 8
  • Execution, metering and policy
  • Multi-model routing
  • Economic controls and budgets
  • Secure and auditable operations
Vector
  • Identity, bonded escrow and settlement
  • Signed work receipts
  • Trust and reputation layer
  • Cross-chain interoperability

Buzz is the room, HAL 8 is the metered brain and wallet, Vector is the ledger. Every hour of agent work is metered in HAL 8 and settled in AP3X.

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