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Who Sent This Bot? The Web Needs an Answer

AI agents are getting blocked alongside crawlers because websites can't tell them apart, so the race is on to build an ID layer for the agent economy.
Who Sent This Bot? The Web Needs an Answer
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Yesterday, Circle’s founder Jeremy Allaire published a sweeping vision of an economy run by AI agents: agents that hold money, hire other agents, sign contracts, and operate businesses through onchain infrastructure.

The treatise is ambitious, and I don't agree with all of it. But one premise matters even if its grandest predictions never materialize: agents will need to be identifiable, authorized, and tied to someone who can answer for what they do.

That problem already exists. People are beginning to use agents to search, gather sources, and assemble research, just as the internet becomes increasingly hostile to automated traffic. 

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David Christopher

Written by David Christopher

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David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.

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