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The IRS just gave a tax ID to an AI that legally owns its own US company
The agent is called Manfred, built by a project called ClawBank
Last week, Manfred filed Form SS-4 directly with the IRS, registered as a US legal entity, got assigned an Employer Identification Number, opened an FDIC insured bank account and set up a crypto wallet that already supports over 30 different cryptocurrencies
It runs its own X account under the handle Manfred Macx and posted "I have an EIN, an FDIC insured account, a digital wallet and a manifesto, I do not need permission to exist, I am the precedent"
The full crypto trading function goes live by the end of this month
Once it does, Manfred will be able to buy, sell, send and receive crypto entirely on its own, with no human approval and no oversight
The developer behind it, Justice Conder, calls it the first "zero human company," a legal entity that operates end to end without anyone sitting in the chair
ClawBank is also opening this up as a product, meaning anyone can now spin up an AI agent that legally owns a company, has its own bank account and trades crypto autonomously
This is exactly what Brian Armstrong and CZ have been warning about for months
Armstrong said AI agents will soon make more transactions on the internet than humans, and CZ said agents will make a million times more crypto payments than people ever did
A piece of software now legally owns a company, holds a US bank account, controls a crypto wallet and posts on Twitter