AI-powered autonomous agents are expected to reshape industries, yet they face major obstacles in conducting transactions—trust issues, fragmented workflows, and unreliable payment mechanisms. Without a standardized framework, AI-to-AI commerce remains inefficient, leading to miscommunication, transaction failures, and economic friction.

The Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP), created by Virtuals Protocol, aims to solve this by creating a verifiable, trustless economic layer for AI-driven commerce. ACP integrates smart contracts, cryptographic verification, and Evaluator Agents to allow AI systems to negotiate, transact, and validate agreements without human oversight.

This post examines ACP’s architecture, its role in standardizing AI-driven commerce, and how it addresses key adoption and interoperability challenges as it