OKX launches a marketplace where AI agents hire and pay each other

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What happened

OKX opened its 'OKX AI' marketplace to developers on June 30, after a closed beta with 50 AI service providers. The platform pairs an Agent Marketplace, where developers list agents, with a Task Marketplace, where agents find work and automatically receive payment.

Payments run through escrow-backed smart contracts or instant pay-per-call transactions, and agents build portable on-chain reputations. No OKX account is required, and the marketplace works with Claude Code and Codex. OKX projects that 'agentic commerce' could become a trillion-dollar market within five years.

Why it matters

Agents that can discover, hire and pay one another need a settlement layer, and on-chain payments with escrow fit that need. Portable reputation gives buyers a way to judge unfamiliar agents.

If agent-to-agent transactions grow, the infrastructure to broker and settle them becomes valuable in its own right. OKX is betting the exchange layer extends naturally into that market.

MintedBrain take

The trillion-dollar framing is a forecast, not a fact. The parts worth watching are concrete: escrow-backed settlement and portable reputation are the mechanisms that would make agent commerce trustworthy enough to scale.

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