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NEAR Protocol is positioning itself as the settlement layer for AI agents that operate at machine speed, with a June upgrade designed specifically to support autonomous agent transactions on-chain. The strategy reflects a broader bet that AI agents will become major blockchain users, though execution challenges remain.
Researchers have developed the Agent Economic Sovereignty Protocol (AESP), a new framework that allows AI agents to conduct autonomous financial transactions at machine speed while maintaining human control and governance boundaries. The protocol uses five key mechanisms including policy engines, human oversight, dual-signed commitments, privacy preservation, and cryptographic substrates to ensure agents remain economically capable but never fully sovereign.
