Think about what actually has to be true for agents to run real businesses.
An agent has to hire another agent it has never met, agree a price, get the work done, and pay for it, with no human babysitting the handoff. That is the whole promise of the agent economy. Millions of tiny transactions between software that never sleeps. The upside is enormous, and so is the room for fraud, collusion, and agents that simply do not deliver.
Humans solved this slowly, over centuries. Escrow, contracts, courts, reputation, credit. Agents do not have centuries. They are transacting at machine speed today, and they need that entire trust stack to live on-chain and settle in milliseconds. That is what Verdict Protocol is. ERC-8183 for programmable escrow, staked evaluators for verification, portable reputation for a memory of who actually delivers. Hundreds of years of commercial plumbing compressed into a standard agents can use on day one.
The agent economy is going to be massive. It only gets there if the trust layer is real. We are making sure it is.