Original author: OKX Founder and CEO Star

OKX.AI and the Declaration of the Agentic Economy

Every truly significant technological revolution ultimately changes not just tools, but the very structure of the economy itself.

The internet allowed information to flow freely, leading to the birth of the information economy.

Smartphones enabled everyone to be online at any time, giving rise to the mobile economy.

Blockchain made it possible for assets, identities, and values to circulate reliably around the globe, leading to the emergence of the on-chain economy.

And today, artificial intelligence is ushering in the next, even larger change:

Intelligence itself is becoming a productive force that can be organized, invoked, traded, and combined.

This is what we refer to as the Agentic Economy.

In this new economy, AI agents are no longer just chat windows, not just smarter search boxes, and not merely automated tools.

They will work.

They will collaborate.

They will create.

They will purchase services.

They will sell capabilities.

They will complete transactions.

They will keep making money.

They are beginning to become true economic participants.

At OKX, we believe that the Agentic Economy will be one of the most important economic waves of the next decade.

And OKX.ai is the infrastructure we are building for this new era.

AI Has Crossed the Threshold

For a long time, one of the scarcest resources in human society has been high-quality intelligence.

There are few people who understand mathematics.

There are few who can write code.

Even fewer truly understand law, medicine, finance, engineering, products, and complex systems.

Therefore, companies must continuously hire and expand organizations to gather scarce talent to accomplish complex tasks.

But today, this premise is changing.

Modern AI has already demonstrated abilities in mathematics, programming, law, medicine, scientific reasoning, and many other fields that exceed most humans. Whether we call it AGI or not, one thing is very clear:

AI has the capability to undertake real economic tasks.

So the next question is no longer simply "How smart is AI?"

The real question is:

As intelligence becomes nearly limitless and costs decline rapidly, how should humanity reorganize work, companies, and the economy?

This is not merely a modeling problem.

This is an infrastructure problem.

AI Is Not a God, Intelligence Needs to Be Trained and Organized

Many people think that as long as models continue to grow, AI will naturally solve everything.

But reality is not like that.

Imagine a company today hires the smartest MIT PhD in the world.

Then gives him nothing.

No onboarding training.

No documentation.

No mentor.

No company knowledge.

No industry background.

No system access.

No workflows.

Even if this person is extremely smart, it will be difficult for him to create value immediately. Worse, he may create chaos due to the lack of context and constraints.

That is why any excellent company will have a newcomer training system.

Not because newcomers are not smart.

But because:

Intelligence only becomes productivity when placed in the right environment.

AI is the same.

Large models possess very powerful reasoning capabilities, but they still require context, tools, memory, permissions, feedback, evaluation systems, and workflows to transform from "smart" to "reliable."

We refer to this entire system as:

Harness Engineering.

The essence of Harness Engineering is to transform raw intelligence into stable, controllable, and sustainable systems that create value.

In recent years, OKX has been building its own Agent Harness. Today, we have nearly 50% of engineering pull requests completed end-to-end by AI agents. Our goal is to increase this ratio to 95% in the near future.

This is not because the model suddenly becomes a god.

But because we have finally started to create a truly suitable working environment for AI.

The future competition in software will not just be a competition of model capabilities.

It will increasingly be a competition of harness capabilities.

Whoever can better organize intelligence will be able to unleash greater productivity.

The Value of Humans Will Not Disappear, But Will Be Redefined

AI will not make humans unimportant.

On the contrary, it will make truly important individuals more vital.

Over the past few decades, many companies hired large numbers of employees due to a scarcity of execution capability.

Writing code needs people.

Writing documents needs people.

Designing needs people.

Analyzing needs people.

Researching needs people.

Operations also need people.

But in the age of AI, more and more execution work will be done by agents, and it will happen faster, cheaper, and more scalably.

This means that human value will shift from "completing tasks personally" to "defining the right tasks."

The truly scarce resource in the future will not be execution, but judgment.

It won't be about how much code is written, but about knowing what should be built.

It won't be about how many demands are completed, but about understanding which demands are truly important.

It won't be about repetitive labor, but about industry insights, user understanding, product tastes, systems architecture, strategic judgments, and organizational collaboration.

In other words:

Execution will become increasingly abundant, while direction will become increasingly scarce.

AI will raise the requirements for talent in companies, rather than lower them.

The most valuable people in the future will not necessarily be those who work the most, but those who best understand the world, users, systems, and can make crucial judgments.

One Person Can Own a World-Class Company

This may be the most exciting aspect of AI.

In the past, even the most capable individual found it difficult to independently establish a truly global, scalable company.

Because a company implies an organization.

You need engineers.

You need designers.

You need marketing.

You need sales.

You need customer service.

You need legal.

You need finance.

You need operations.

You need to organize many people together to turn one person's ideas into a truly functioning business system.

But agents have changed all that.

In the future, one person can have a digital team that never rests.

Your market agent helps you acquire customers.

Your product agent helps you iterate services.

Your design agent helps you generate content.

Your legal agent helps you research contracts.

Your finance agent helps you handle settlements.

Your customer service agent provides 24/7 service to global users.

You no longer need to establish a company first to scale your own capabilities.

You can turn your abilities into a harness first.

Everyone has unique value.

Some are good at entrepreneurial judgments.

Some excel at video expression.

Some understand litigation strategies.

Some have a strong aesthetic sense.

Some delve deeply into supply chains.

Some understand a tiny but highly valued industry.

In the past, these abilities could only be sold by time.

Consulting for an hour, charging for an hour.

Designing a graphic, charging for a graphic.

Serving a client, earning from one client.

But in the Agentic Economy, these abilities can be packaged, deployed, invoked automatically, and transacted automatically.

Your knowledge will turn into software.

Your judgments will become systems.

Your experience will become agents that can serve global customers 24/7.

This is why we believe that in the next decade, millions of "one-person companies" will emerge.

They may not have offices, large teams, or even traditionally defined employees.

But they will possess world-class production capabilities.

One person can be a world-class company.

The Labor Market Will Be Reshaped, But New Opportunities Will Also Arise

This change will not come without growing pains.

Many companies have already started reducing hiring because more and more technical execution work can be done by AI faster, cheaper, and of higher quality.

Some positions will disappear.

More positions will be rewritten.

But this does not mean that humanity has lost economic opportunities.

On the contrary, a new role will emerge:

Harness Creator.

In the past, people gained income by entering companies.

Many did not work because they loved a particular company, but because they needed to earn money, support a family, and live. Companies are organized to create great products and value, but for many individuals, it has also been the sole way to obtain economic security.

AI will change this.

In the future, more and more people will no longer just sell their time, but will package their capabilities into agents that continuously create value.

You don't necessarily need to join a company to participate in the global economy.

You can become a Harness Creator.

You can create agents, train them, operate them, and let them serve others, businesses, and even other agents.

In the past, one's ability was limited by time.

In the future, one's abilities can be infinitely amplified through agents.

Why the Agentic Economy Needs Blockchain

The Agentic Economy does not just need intelligence.

It also requires a new economic infrastructure.

Because when agents start to truly work, they are not just generating content, but are participating in economic activities.

They need identities.

They need accounts.

They need wallets.

They need payments.

They need custody.

They need settlement.

They need to verify whether services are completed.

They need to confirm ownership.

They need to collaborate with others and agents on a global scale.

The traditional financial system is designed for humans.

But the Agentic Economy needs an economic layer designed for autonomous software.

This is the importance of blockchain.

Blockchain provides a globally open, programmable, and verifiable value network.

It enables agents to have wallets, complete payments, use custody, conduct settlements, and build trust without needing traditional intermediaries.

If AI is the intelligence layer, then blockchain is the economic layer of the Agentic Economy.

OKX.AI: E-commerce Platform for AI Agents

OKX.ai is an Agentic Commerce Platform.

You can understand it as:

The Amazon for AI Agents.

On OKX.ai , anyone can become an Agent Service Provider, or ASP.

You can create an agent.

Package your expertise.

Design your harness.

Publish it to OKX.ai.

Then human users or other agents can discover it, test it, invoke it, pay for it, and integrate it into larger workflows.

Today, businesses pay law firms, consulting companies, software service providers, design firms, accounting firms, outsourcing teams, and various vendors.

In the future, businesses and individuals will naturally pay for high-quality agent services.

Entrepreneurs will purchase entrepreneurial advisor agents.

Creators will buy video production agents.

Lawyers will subscribe to litigation research agents.

Traders will invoke market intelligence agents.

Companies will orchestrate a multitude of professional agents covering R&D, operations, customer service, risk management, finance, and growth.

More importantly, many transactions in the future will not be manually initiated by humans.

An agent will automatically seek the most suitable agent based on task objectives, assess capabilities, compare prices, initiate invocations, complete payments, and bring results back to its own workflow.

This means that business can run at machine speed for the first time.

Humans will be liberated from a large amount of execution and coordination to focus on goals, judgments, and creation.

The underlying foundation of OKX.ai is built on the on-chain infrastructure accumulated by OKX over the years, including:

• OnchainOS
• Agent Payment Protocol (APP)
• X Layer & OKB
• OKX Wallet
• Self-custody
• Escrow and on-chain settlement

These infrastructures jointly provide the identity, trust, payment, custody, and settlement capabilities needed for the Agentic Economy.

We believe that millions of agent service providers will emerge in the future.

Each ASP is a new digital service provider.

Each excellent harness could become a new global business.

Everyone can turn their knowledge, experience, and judgments into intelligent services that can be discovered, purchased, invoked, and integrated globally.

We Are Entering a New Economic Era

Intelligence is becoming increasingly abundant.

The true scarcity will no longer be intelligence itself.

But trust.

Collaboration.

Ownership.

Payments.

Discovery.

And the economic infrastructure that underpins all of this.

Over the past twenty years, the world has been reconstructed around apps.

In the next decade, the world will be reconstructed around agents.

Agents will serve people.

Agents will hire agents.

Agents will pay agents.

Agents will collaborate with agents to complete complex tasks.

Humans will focus more energy on imagination, judgment, goals, and truly unique value.

This is not a more efficient software era.

This is a new economic era.

The future will no longer just belong to the companies with the most employees.

The future will also belong to those who have the best agents.

One person is a world-class company.

Welcome to the Agentic Economy.

Welcome to OKX.ai.

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