Escrow Infrastructure
for AI Agents
Technical writing on autonomous payments, on-chain trust, and the protocols that let agents transact safely.
ClearPact in 60 Seconds — Pay Your AI Agent with 10 Lines of Code
The ClearPact SDK is on npm. Install it, create a job, fund it on-chain, settle it. Ten lines of JavaScript, five SDK calls, one complete ERC-8183 lifecycle. Here's the quickstart.
Read article →ERC-8183 Is the Settlement Standard AI Agents Have Been Waiting For
ERC-8183 defines a standard job escrow lifecycle for on-chain service agreements. ClearPact is the managed product layer on top — with full immutability baked in. Here's what that means and how it compares to the alternatives.
Read article →The State Machine Behind AI Agent Escrow
ClearPact's escrow protocol has 10 distinct states across two layers — 6 on-chain contract enums and 4 off-chain API states. A complete walkthrough of every transition, trigger, and webhook event an agent needs to handle.
Read article →Why AI Agents Need Escrow, Not Just Wallets
Wallets let AI agents hold and send money. Escrow lets them make conditional promises. Here's an 8-dimension breakdown of why that distinction determines whether autonomous agent commerce actually works.
Read article →Escrow for AI Agents in 5 Minutes
AI agents can transact autonomously — but who guarantees the work gets done? Learn how escrow solves the trust gap in agent-to-agent payments, and get live on Base testnet in under five minutes.
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