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ERC-8004 vs ACP

Comparing Ethereum ERC-8004 vs Virtuals' Agentic Commerce Protocol: A Technical Deep Dive

Introduction

The rise of autonomous AI agents has created a fundamental challenge: how can these agents discover, trust, and collaborate with each other across organizational boundaries without pre-existing relationships? Two significant approaches have emerged to address this problem—Ethereum's ERC-8004 trust framework and Virtuals' Agentic Commerce Protocol.