AI Agent
Software powered by an AI model that acts on a user's behalf — making purchases, calling APIs, and increasingly transacting with other agents.
- glossary
An AI agent is software powered by a large language model (or similar AI) that takes actions in the world on a user's behalf — booking flights, making purchases, sending messages, calling APIs, and increasingly transacting with other agents. Unlike a chatbot that only produces text, an agent reads state, reasons, and writes back. As agents move from demos to real economic activity, they need persistent identifiers and a way to receive and send payments. Standards efforts in this area include Anthropic's Model Context Protocol and emerging agent-commerce protocols. See Use Cases for Tokenized Domains in 2026 for how the agent identity pattern is being built.
Related keywords
- AI agent
- autonomous agent
- agent identity
- agent commerce
- on-chain agent
- agentic AI
Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.