AI Agent

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. Tokenized domains plug into this nicely: the domain serves as a recognizable name, the controlling wallet provides a payment endpoint (including via x402), and the on-chain history acts as reputational scaffolding. 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.