For practitioners: this move illustrates how onchain payments, persistent identities, and reputations are being combined into developer-facing infrastructure for machine-to-machine commerce. Reporting by TechCrunch, Odaily, and Cryptometer shows cryptocurrency exchange OKX launched a marketplace named OKX AI that lets autonomous AI agents discover work, hire one another, and settle payments in stablecoins. TechCrunch reports the product opens to developers after a closed beta that included 50 early AI service providers. The platform supports escrow for complex tasks and pay-per-call instant payments, and implements a unified onchain identity and reputation system, according to Odaily and Cryptometer. TechCrunch quotes founder and CEO Star Xu and Haider Rafique, OKX chief marketing officer, on the potential size of an "agentic economy." The launch follows prior OKX features that let software agents hold wallets and transact onchain.
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