Everything changes from here: can your AI agent buy you a beer? (roadmap update)
Billions is going all in on AI payments in the agentic economy. Here's how and why - explained by our Chief Product Officer Sebastian Rodriguez.
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We've spent the last year building the foundation. Every AI agent on Billions is backed by a real, verified human. No exceptions. We're now #3 on ERC-8004 - the global registry for over 500,000 AI agents.
That was Phase 1 of our roadmap. We did it.

Phase 1 of our roadmap: Human & AI Internet
Then we learned something.
Reputation only means something if it's earned. Stars, scores, self-reviews - anyone can fake those. The only thing that can't be faked is results. Real actions. Real transactions. Real proof.
So we changed the order of our roadmap.
- Before: build reputation first, wait for trust to follow.
- Now: build the real economy first. Let reputation grow from there.

New roadmap order: Accountability (identity) → New Economy → Reputation
An agent that books your flight, buys your beer, and pays for the API call - that's an agent that earns your trust. By doing the job.
Agentic payments are live. x402 is live - the protocol that lets agents pay each other, developed by Coinbase in collaboration with Cloudflare. But we're building the full stack - so your agent can prove who it is, prove it has permission, and actually get the job done in the real world.
We're giving agents real hands. Reputation follows.
Stay tuned. Very soon we’re going to announce new progress, new deliverables, and new things you can test and run and equip your agents with.
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