Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereum Foundation’s decentralized AI (dAI) team officially announced the introduction of ERC-8183, a new Ethereum standard designed to enable secure AI agent-to-agent commercial transactions through on-chain rules. The protocol establishes a decentralized “hire-deliver-settle” framework that allows agents to coordinate services and payments without centralized intermediaries. ERC-8183 introduces a structured Job primitive that connects Client, Provider, and Evaluator roles to manage tasks and ensure verifiable execution. The standard also supports customizable smart contract behavior through its Hook mechanism. According to the announcement, ERC-8183 is designed to work alongside protocols such as x402 and ERC-8004 to help build a broader trustless and interoperable ecosystem for decentralized AI agent economies on Ethereum.