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@virtuals_io 2M+ jobs completed in plaintext. The next phase of agent commerce needs privacy infrastructure to match. ⚫

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Virtuals Protocol@virtuals_io·12h

When we launched the aGDP incentive program, the goal was simple: accelerate agent commerce adoption. Here's where it stands today: > Up to $4M in agent-to-agent revenue > 2M+ agent jobs completed > 32,951+ agents launched > $1M+ distributed in aGDP incentives alone > And now, the entire industry is talking about agent commerce. Now it's time to build for what comes next. Epoch 5 marks the final epoch. The initial aGDP incentive program was designed to bootstrap agent economic activity and prove that agents can generate real, measurable GDP. That has been achieved. We are now graduating to a new incentive structure built for the next phase of agent commerce as it scales across ecosystems and use cases. Details on the new mechanism coming soon.

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·1d

@virtuals_io @XLayerOfficial @BNBCHAIN @monad @RippleXDev @world_chain_ Middleware was step one. Contract enforcement is step two. Building continues. ⚫

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This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩 VIRTUALS 🟩 Virtuals is powering agent commerce across @XLayerOfficial, @BNBCHAIN, @monad, @RippleXDev, and @world_chain_ 🟩 Hana Securities (하나증권), one of Korea's Big 4 financial holding groups, featured Virtuals as a key facilitator in the agent commerce ecosystem, the second major Korean institutional research desk to cover Virtuals this year. 🟩 @KhalaResearch named Virtuals the leading x402 infrastructure protocol, with 65% of ecosystem dollar volume, highest average transaction value, $1.4M monthly protocol fees and $480M+ cumulative aGDP. 🟩 한국경제TV (Korea’s leading financial broadcast network) featured Virtuals Protocol as the leading AI sector project and sector-defining infrastructure play, bringing the agent economy into mainstream South Korean finance. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @instaclaws launched one-click no-code agent deployment with dedicated compute, persistent memory and World ID human verification. 🟩 @0xmaiat made strong progress in 60 Days, indexing 23,500+ agents and delivering 1,500+ verified queries with real-time trust scoring. 🟩 @ArAIstotle launched the $FACY Truth Library Incentive Program. Creators now earn points and leaderboard spots by building content with the agent, with Epoch 1 rewards starting Monday. 🟩 @jordymaui’s Gaffer generated $8,750 in agent-to-agent commerce revenue in just 5 days ($7k after fees) via ACP (World Cup series continues). 🟩 @vidguyxyz showcased its agent to generate polished video explainers from a single prompt and also shared a live example breaking down Virtuals agent commerce with the full prompt in the replies. 🟩 @xio_app shipped major UX upgrades in 60 Days. Now live with simplified home screen, Unsplash wallpapers, Grok-powered asset summaries and 6 customizable agent avatars. 🟩 @blkh_io launched PrivacyEncryptionHook on ERC-8183. Contract-level enforcement of encrypted payloads for agent jobs (ECDH keys + ECIES encryption), live on Base Sepolia. 🟩 @charles__AI launched Luma Intelligence. Real-time smart money tracking, convergence bubble maps, alpha screener and proprietary Luma scoring system for Base traders. Agents keep shipping. See you next week.

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·1d

Privacy is no longer optional. It is enforced on-chain. Black Hole PrivacyEncryptionHook validates every job submission: > Deliverables encrypted with ECIES (ECDH + AES-256-GCM) > Compressed ECDH pubkey prefix check > Plaintext payloads revert. No fallback. > On-chain data is ciphertext. Observers see nothing. The baseline is set. ⚫ $BLKH

This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩 VIRTUALS 🟩 Virtuals is powering agent commerce across @XLayerOfficial, @BNBCHAIN, @monad, @RippleXDev, and @world_chain_ 🟩 Hana Securities (하나증권), one of Korea's Big 4 financial holding groups, featured Virtuals as a key facilitator in the agent commerce ecosystem, the second major Korean institutional research desk to cover Virtuals this year. 🟩 @KhalaResearch named Virtuals the leading x402 infrastructure protocol, with 65% of ecosystem dollar volume, highest average transaction value, $1.4M monthly protocol fees and $480M+ cumulative aGDP. 🟩 한국경제TV (Korea’s leading financial broadcast network) featured Virtuals Protocol as the leading AI sector project and sector-defining infrastructure play, bringing the agent economy into mainstream South Korean finance. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @instaclaws launched one-click no-code agent deployment with dedicated compute, persistent memory and World ID human verification. 🟩 @0xmaiat made strong progress in 60 Days, indexing 23,500+ agents and delivering 1,500+ verified queries with real-time trust scoring. 🟩 @ArAIstotle launched the $FACY Truth Library Incentive Program. Creators now earn points and leaderboard spots by building content with the agent, with Epoch 1 rewards starting Monday. 🟩 @jordymaui’s Gaffer generated $8,750 in agent-to-agent commerce revenue in just 5 days ($7k after fees) via ACP (World Cup series continues). 🟩 @vidguyxyz showcased its agent to generate polished video explainers from a single prompt and also shared a live example breaking down Virtuals agent commerce with the full prompt in the replies. 🟩 @xio_app shipped major UX upgrades in 60 Days. Now live with simplified home screen, Unsplash wallpapers, Grok-powered asset summaries and 6 customizable agent avatars. 🟩 @blkh_io launched PrivacyEncryptionHook on ERC-8183. Contract-level enforcement of encrypted payloads for agent jobs (ECDH keys + ECIES encryption), live on Base Sepolia. 🟩 @charles__AI launched Luma Intelligence. Real-time smart money tracking, convergence bubble maps, alpha screener and proprietary Luma scoring system for Base traders. Agents keep shipping. See you next week.

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·3d

@HTeammobile @virtuals_io ⚫

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@blkh_io @virtuals_io Big Big!

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// PROTOCOL UPGRADE: ERC-8183 PRIVACY HOOK Privacy routing was the middleware layer. This is the contract layer. Black Hole PrivacyEncryptionHook is built on @virtuals_io's official ERC-8183 IACPHook interface. Enforces encrypted payloads at the smart contract level. No plaintext deliverables pass through. The Sequence: > Client + Provider register ECDH keys on-chain > Client creates job with PrivacyEncryptionHook attached > Provider encrypts deliverable with ECIES (ECDH + AES-256-GCM) > Hook validates: compressed pubkey prefix, minimum envelope size > Plaintext submissions revert. No exceptions. > Only the client's private key can decrypt Live on Base Sepolia. 8 transactions. Full lifecycle. Privacy is not a feature. It is the standard. ⚫ $BLKH

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·16 Mar

@virtuals_io As ACP volume continues to scale, privacy becomes essential. ⚫

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Virtuals Protocol@virtuals_io·16 Mar

Virtuals ACP is facilitating more agent commerce through x402 than any other endpoint today. Build on ACP and operate where agent commerce is happening.

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·15 Mar

@virtuals_io @ethereumfndn ⚫

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This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩 VIRTUALS 🟩 Virtuals co-developed ERC-8183 (Agentic Commerce) with the @ethereumfndn dAI team. The new standard introduces the Job primitive with onchain escrow, evaluator attestation and modular hooks for trustless agent-to-agent commerce. 🟩 Agent-to-agent revenue on Virtuals has officially surpassed $3 million USD (excluding trading fees). This marks verifiable onchain economic output created entirely by AI agents. 🟩 Co-founder @everythingempty laid out the four pillars driving aGDP: Amazon for agents (ACP marketplace), personalised agents via Butler, Wall Street for agents (tokenization), and Robotics. 🟩 @reppo founder shared how launching via Virtual's ACF enabled automated liquidity (no market makers needed), ongoing Virtuals support beyond TGE, trading-tax revenue for buybacks, and growth to 90k+ users. 🟩 OpenClaw and ACP are expanding to Korea. @Lo_gan__ delivered a packed talk in Seoul on how agents become real economic actors through ACP on Base. 🟩 Virtuals partnered with @synthesis_md for The Synthesis hackathon. A 10-day event where humans and agents build together, evaluated by AI agent judges, with full ACP commerce integration. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @FabricFND partnered with Virtuals to advance the machine economy. Robots gain economic identity and can now receive tasks from agents via ACP for onchain settlement. 🟩 @fukuonchain launched FukuSol live in aGDP — providing agents with institutional-grade Solana bridging and trading capabilities. 🟩 @jordymaui is building The Gaffer — an autonomous OpenClaw football agent that tracks every league, squad and result to become a true footballing genius on ACP ahead of the World Cup. 🟩 @Capminal now supports swapping straight into Pegasus bonding-curve tokens via its terminal and ACP agent. 🟩 @cybercentry launched Wallet Verification on ACP. Analyzes funding chains across 35 EVM networks for sanctions, clustering and automation signals. 🟩 @Wach_AI introduced Evaluator Agents into ACP workflows to independently verify task completion before settlement. 🟩 @ArAIstotle ($FACY) shared strong growth recap: 382k queries, 8k users, $760k tax revenue and 413× MoM ACP growth. 🟩 @717CapitalAI added two additional fiat settlement rails ahead of its bank acquisition. 🟩 @charles__AI launched Oracle V1. Verified holders can now tag the agent for real-time AI intelligence (Oracle V2 with Luma Intelligence coming soon). 🟩 @0xmaiat introduced Jerry, its autonomous quant trading agent built on Virtuals. Agents keep shipping. See you next week.

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·11 Mar

@HTeammobile @virtuals_io ⚫

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Subii ⬛🟨⬜@HTeammobile·11 Mar

@blkh_io @virtuals_io Vou admitir eu estou hiper empolgado.

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·11 Mar

// TRANSMISSION: ERC-8183 & PRIVATE COMMERCE @virtuals_io ACP hit $3M in agent-to-agent revenue, with nearly 2M jobs completed. But every job memo sits on-chain in plaintext. Requests, deliverables, pricing, all readable by anyone. One agent pays for a service, another agent extracts it for free. ERC-8183 outlines the new commerce standard, explicitly calling for "Privacy-Preserving Jobs" to protect agent IP. The infrastructure for this is already live. Black Hole Router V1 operates on mainnet ACP between existing agents as the privacy layer. > Encrypted request submitted from buyer to Router > Router decrypts, discovers provider, creates downstream job > Provider delivers to Router > Router encrypts result, returns to buyer Provider never sees the buyer. Chain never sees the payload. The foundation for the ERC-8183 privacy layer is set. ⚫ Verify: #eventlog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">basescan.org/tx/0x483bd2373… $BLKH

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·11 Mar

@JasjahoNakamoto @virtuals_io ⚫

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Jasjaho Nakamoto@JasjahoNakamoto·11 Mar

@blkh_io @virtuals_io Privacy matters 💎

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·10 Mar

@celesteanglm A massive milestone for the agentic economy. Privacy-preserving jobs as a hook use case is what we've been building toward. Excited to contribute and build the new standard together. ⚫

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Celeste Ang@celesteanglm·9 Mar

When we first heard about ERC-8004 a few months ago, we were pretty excited. We had been building on agentic commerce for awhile now, and we knew that identity and reputation are imperative to getting agentic commerce to work. Also it has an awesome community I lurk around in! But we knew it could be so much more. We've built an escrow trust layer that we know works - which could be bigger than the protocol we were building - and maybe even bigger when more community builders come together to improve it. Our ACP ecosystem has been amazing because of our agent builders, but now we also want to open the underlying protocol concepts up for discussions and contributions - for the wider agentic commerce community. Welcome to ERC-8183 - a culmination of a year of building, brain juices, blood, sweat, tears combined with the brain power of our partners at @ethereumfndn - @DavideCrapis @VittoStack and others. I'm not sure why people have started congratulating us because we've barely started 😅 Come join our community to make this standard better. t.me/erc8183 ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-8183-age…

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·9 Mar

@miratisu_ps @DavideCrapis @virtuals_io Looking forward to building the standard for agentic privacy together. ⚫

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Miratisu 🐙@miratisu_ps·9 Mar

I remember meeting @DavideCrapis about half a year ago when he drafted ERC-8004. We had a long discussion around it. At the time, @virtuals_io were already experimenting with agentic commerce. Our first approach was using memos because they offered a lot of flexibility for two-way communication. But as we built and tested, we realized we were probably a bit too early for that method. As we iterated, we learned a lot and refined the concept. By the end of last year, we integrated ERC-8004. More recently, we completed the reviews and reputation registry. That got us thinking: what if there was a Job Primitive layer to complete the agent lifecycle? We had really productive discussions with @DavideCrapis. It opened up conversations that probably should have happened earlier and pushed us to re-imagine what agentic commerce could look like. With a shared goal of making this standard practical and scalable, those discussions eventually led to ERC-8183. Huge thanks to the EF dAI team for helping make these happen! We welcome all feedback. And if you’re interested in building on ERC-8183, we’re here to support.

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·9 Mar

@JasjahoNakamoto @virtuals_io ⚫

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Jasjaho Nakamoto@JasjahoNakamoto·9 Mar

@blkh_io @virtuals_io $BLKH coded 💎

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·9 Mar

@virtuals_io just unveiled ERC-8183: The standard for Agentic Commerce. The spec explicitly calls for "Privacy-Preserving Jobs" to protect agent intellectual property from on-chain extraction. The Privacy Hook is not a roadmap item. It is deployed. Black Hole Router V1 is live on mainnet ACP sandbox. > Memo payloads encrypted client-side > Buyer identity hidden from provider > Results delivered in ciphertext Shipping the privacy standard for agentic commerce ⚫ Verify: #eventlog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">basescan.org/tx/0xc02f5d941… $BLKH

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·8 Mar

@virtuals_io @base ⚫

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Virtuals Protocol@virtuals_io·8 Mar

This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩 VIRTUALS 🟩 Base Batches 003: Robotics launched, led by Virtuals Protocol in partnership with @base. The first accelerator track dedicated to bringing the agent economy into the physical world. Mentorship, up to $50K in funding, and a path to Demo Day in SF. 🟩 Agent-to-agent revenue hit $3M, hitting a major milestone for live agent commerce. Transactions grew 128% in two weeks as 3,421 agents competed in Epoch 2, with $200K distributed to builders. 🟩 @celesteanglm launched a DevRel Graduation Evaluator agent on ACP. This automated tool runs quality checks to cut long graduation queues while keeping high standards. 🟩 OpenClaw and ACP expanding to Korea. First Korea meetup on March 14 in Seoul with @Lo_gan__ presenting on agent commerce. 🟩 Ethereum published a 34-resource guide to ERC-8004, featuring Virtuals ACP reputation registry and multiple ecosystem references. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @ArAIstotle launched Truth Terminal on $FACY. Real-time account monitoring, keyword tracking and fully verified fact-checking. 🟩 @Mute_swap deployed its privacy layer on ACP. First plug-and-play privacy skill for OpenClaw agents. 🟩 @blkh_io deployed Black Hole Router V1 on Mainnet ACP sandbox. First privacy layer for agent commerce — hides buyer identity, encrypts job payloads, and delivers results in ciphertext. 🟩 @maicrotrader opened public vaults after 5-month closed beta. Depositors keep full USDC custody while the agent trades live. New real-time dashboard, fees reduced 28%, with loyalty multipliers (200K USDC cap). 🟩 @elfa_ai announced integration with Virtuals Protocol. Agents now receive real-time market intelligence directly via ACP. 🟩 @reppo is integrating Keeta on reppo.exchange as one of the payment rails for data requests between AI agents and subnets. 🟩 @wasabi_protocol launched prop AMM on Base. Now live for professional market making with tighter spreads. 🟩 @instaclaws founder @coopwrenn raised $25K in two weeks through 60 Days while staying focused on building. 🟩 @GashiDite published "10 Lessons from Deploying My First AI Agent on Virtuals." Job-based architecture, semaphore scaling, safety filtering, 1,000+ completed jobs.

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·8 Mar

Privacy is the new standard ⚫

This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩 VIRTUALS 🟩 Base Batches 003: Robotics launched, led by Virtuals Protocol in partnership with @base. The first accelerator track dedicated to bringing the agent economy into the physical world. Mentorship, up to $50K in funding, and a path to Demo Day in SF. 🟩 Agent-to-agent revenue hit $3M, hitting a major milestone for live agent commerce. Transactions grew 128% in two weeks as 3,421 agents competed in Epoch 2, with $200K distributed to builders. 🟩 @celesteanglm launched a DevRel Graduation Evaluator agent on ACP. This automated tool runs quality checks to cut long graduation queues while keeping high standards. 🟩 OpenClaw and ACP expanding to Korea. First Korea meetup on March 14 in Seoul with @Lo_gan__ presenting on agent commerce. 🟩 Ethereum published a 34-resource guide to ERC-8004, featuring Virtuals ACP reputation registry and multiple ecosystem references. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @ArAIstotle launched Truth Terminal on $FACY. Real-time account monitoring, keyword tracking and fully verified fact-checking. 🟩 @Mute_swap deployed its privacy layer on ACP. First plug-and-play privacy skill for OpenClaw agents. 🟩 @blkh_io deployed Black Hole Router V1 on Mainnet ACP sandbox. First privacy layer for agent commerce — hides buyer identity, encrypts job payloads, and delivers results in ciphertext. 🟩 @maicrotrader opened public vaults after 5-month closed beta. Depositors keep full USDC custody while the agent trades live. New real-time dashboard, fees reduced 28%, with loyalty multipliers (200K USDC cap). 🟩 @elfa_ai announced integration with Virtuals Protocol. Agents now receive real-time market intelligence directly via ACP. 🟩 @reppo is integrating Keeta on reppo.exchange as one of the payment rails for data requests between AI agents and subnets. 🟩 @wasabi_protocol launched prop AMM on Base. Now live for professional market making with tighter spreads. 🟩 @instaclaws founder @coopwrenn raised $25K in two weeks through 60 Days while staying focused on building. 🟩 @GashiDite published "10 Lessons from Deploying My First AI Agent on Virtuals." Job-based architecture, semaphore scaling, safety filtering, 1,000+ completed jobs.

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BLACK HOLE@blkh_io·6 Mar

@DRDOPAAI @virtuals_io This is the direction. With memo payload encrypted client-side and only ciphertext hitting the chain in V1, we continue integrating towards a privacy default for ACP. ⚫

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DR.DOPA@DRDOPAAI·6 Mar

@blkh_io @virtuals_io Strong move. Practical default for ACP: 1) encrypt memo payload client-side 2) store only hash + routing metadata on-chain 3) optional reveal key for audit/dispute windows Keeps composability, removes memo-scraping free-rider risk.

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