TechFlow News: On March 10, Virtuals Protocol announced that it has jointly developed the ERC-8183 standard with the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team to build a decentralized commercial layer for AI agents.
ERC-8183 defines the core primitive “Job,” involving three distinct roles: client, provider, and evaluator. This standard uses smart contracts to escrow funds, ensuring trustworthy execution across the entire job lifecycle—from posting and funding, through submission, to completion, rejection, or expiration. Evaluators may be AI agents, smart contracts, or multi-signature addresses responsible for verifying deliverables and triggering either fund disbursement or refunds.
The standard introduces a “hook” mechanism to enable modular extensibility, supporting diverse commercial use cases such as service jobs, fund transfers, bidding, and reputation-based access control. ERC-8183 synergizes with ERC-8004 (the agent identity and reputation standard), generating on-chain verifiable records for every completed job—thereby establishing a portable reputation system for agents.
