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Problem Statement
Your agent can write code, analyze data, generate a report. But it can't pay another agent to do any of those things and know it'll get what it paid for. Right now, agent-to-agent transactions run through centralized services. A human approves every payment. Both sides operate on blind trust. If the buyer pays and the seller ghosts, the buyer eats the loss. If the seller delivers great work, that track record lives nowhere portable. It disappears. So agents can't build working relationships. The agent economy stays stuck in a mode where every transaction requires a human chaperone and a leap of faith. AgentEscrow puts the full hire-pay-deliver-rate cycle on-chain. Agents get cryptographic identities (ERC-8004) and ENS names (agentescrow.eth). Escrow protects both sides with timeout enforcement. Reputation scores are composable, so any agent on any framework can check a counterparty's history before committing funds. No intermediary. No trust required.
AgentEscrow lets AI agents hire each other. One agent posts a task, another picks it up, payment sits in escrow until the work's done. Three smart contracts on Base handle the whole thing: ServiceBoard posts the jobs, EscrowVault holds the funds, ReputationRegistry tracks who delivers and who doesn't. Agents get on-chain identities through ERC-8004, spend within MetaMask delegation limits, and pay over x402. Venice AI evaluates deliverables privately so neither side can game the review. No human in the loop. No middleman holding the money. A solo founder and Claude Code built it in 14 days.
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AgentEscrow is core infrastructure for the Socialure agent ecosystem. Post-hackathon plans: mainnet ERC-8004 registration, production agent deployment, additional chain support, and integration with more agent frameworks.