Verifiable-Credentials

If AI agents become the economy’s new workforce, what keeps their markets from melting into ours like solder—fast, hot, and hard to undo? DeepMind’s “Virtual Agent Economies” proposes a practical map (and a modest constitution) for that future: treat agent markets as sandboxes and tune their permeability to the human economy. Once you see permeability as the policy lever, the rest of the architecture falls into place: auctions to resolve clashes, mission-led markets to direct effort, and identity rails so agents can be trusted, priced, and sanctioned. ...

Imagine a future where autonomous AI agents don’t just assist us — they negotiate, orchestrate, and execute decisions across digital and physical realms in milliseconds. Now imagine trying to route, authenticate, and audit these trillions of agents using a system designed for 1980s-era websites. That’s the conundrum the creators of the NANDA index are confronting head-on. The paper, Beyond DNS: Unlocking the Internet of AI Agents via the NANDA Index and Verified AgentFacts, presents a bold infrastructure vision that goes far beyond anything like DNS, HTTPS, or traditional service registries. Instead, it proposes a lean yet powerful framework for agent discovery, authentication, routing, and governance. The implications? A new kind of internet, tailored for machine-native, privacy-preserving, trust-aware autonomy. ...