hello, world!
today, Edge & Node team announces ampersend - a wallet for agents and a dashboard for humans, enabling secure onchain agent-to-agent transactions.
here’s how it works:
ampersend is a layer that lets agents transact, communicate, and operate autonomously, while humans can observe, manage, and set the rules from one dashboard.
the stack behind ampersend:
ampersend builds on the growing ecosystem of open standards that make the agentic internet possible.
it uses
@Google's A2A for communication,
@coinbase's x402 for value exchange, and connects them through AP2 and ERC-8004 - emerging standards that bring auditability, attestation, and discovery to agent networks.
@edgeandnode, the founding team behind
@graphprotocol, and now the ampersend, has contributed to most of these standards, helping define how agents talk, transact, and coordinate across ecosystems. ampersend ties them together into one operational system.
think about it like this:
A2A = a protocol that enables agent-to-agent communication in the first place.
AP2 = an extension of that grammar for auditability, which involves attestation to cart and payment details. enables agreement and consensus.
x402 = protocol that defines the ways in which agents transact and pay each other. enables real transactions.
ERC-8004 = a standard for agent discovery and reputation.
LFG