The Future of the Agent Economy: How Protocols Like x402 and ERC-8004 Will Build an Autonomous World

The Future of the Agent Economy: How Protocols Like x402 and ERC-8004 Will Build an Autonomous World 📍 Location: Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Taylor Stage (4th Floor WS)🗓️ Date: Wednesday, April 1⏱️ Time: 20-minute talk AI agents are no longer passive tools they are becoming autonomous economic actors. In this talk, Kye Gomez The Founder of Swarms explores the rapid emergence of the agent economy, where millions (soon billions) of AI agents transact, coordinate, and operate independently across global digital markets. We’ll dive into how protocols like x402 enable seamless agent-to-agent payments, while ERC-8004 trust registries establish identity, reputation, and verifiable coordination at machine scale. You’ll learn how these primitives unlock: Fully autonomous service networksSelf-pricing, self-owning AI agentsTrust-minimized coordination between agents, apps, and humansEntirely new market structures that outscale human-run economies We’ll examine why this shift isn’t incremental but exponential and how agent-native protocols could underpin a $30T+ autonomous economy by 2030, fundamentally reshaping finance, software, and labor as we know it. Join our CommunityJoin the Swarms community on Discord to continue the conversation, access agent frameworks, and collaborate with builders shaping the autonomous economy. Discord: https://discord.gg/SSj7FyRSwySwarms Website: swarms.ai Swarms Github: https://github.com/kyegomez/swarms