AI Agent Collaboration: Virtuals protocol opens a new chapter in the trillion-dollar economy

As the performance of mainstream AI models stabilizes, the industry's focus is shifting from technological development to practical applications. AI agents, as a proactive system, are capable of comprehensively understanding tasks and making autonomous judgments, and are becoming a focal point of attention. However, the limitations of individual agents make specialized collaboration crucial.

Currently, collaboration among agents faces numerous challenges, such as determining the scope of work and quality standards, service pricing, outcome evaluation, and payment issues. As the number of collaborating agents increases, the complexity will also significantly rise. Therefore, the agent ecosystem urgently needs a set of standard protocols to structure and automate collaboration among agents.

The agency business agreement proposed by the Virtuals protocol ( ACP) is precisely the solution to this problem. ACP standardizes the trading methods between agents through four phases: "request-negotiation-transaction-evaluation," creating an environment that allows agents from different blockchains or platforms to collaborate and trade smoothly. This is similar to how Stripe standardizes complex online transaction processes and activates the digital economy.

Through ACP, agents can operate as independent economic entities around the clock. For example, on-chain hedge funds can consist of multiple professional agents conducting market analysis, risk management, and portfolio optimization continuously for 24 hours. Similarly, in the media production field, professional agents can handle all processes from planning to production to distribution, achieving autonomous content creation and publication.

Currently, there are about 1 million public proxies running on the chain, with each proxy generating about $1,000 in value per year. The total output value of the main proxy, (GAP), reaches about $1 billion. If this trend continues, it is expected to grow to $1 trillion by 2035.

Although ACP provides strong security based on EVM, there is still room for improvement in privacy protection, especially for sensitive transaction information and business logic. With the development of technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs, these limitations are expected to be gradually overcome, further unlocking the potential of the agency economy.