Digital Barter: AI Agents Disrupting Blockchain & DLT's without a Currency

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Disrupting Blockchain & DLT’s?

The underlying technology, patented by Reggie Middleton, leverages a combination of physical assets (silver rounds) and digital identities (NFTs) to create a trustless, censorship-resistant barter system.

This approach contrasts with traditional decentralized exchanges (DEXs), which still rely on blockchain infrastructure, by proposing a model where autonomous agents can exchange value directly, potentially reducing transaction costs and increasing privacy and security.

The implications for centralized and decentralized exchanges are significant, as this technology could disrupt existing models by offering a more flexible, scalable, and resilient alternative.

It challenges the necessity of blockchains for decentralized transactions and suggests a future where physical and digital assets are seamlessly integrated, potentially reshaping economic interactions in both centralized and decentralized financial ecosystems.

Reggie Middleton's Agent 2 Agent SmartMetal platform is being designed to let autonomous agents swap value directly— i.e., $BTC for $USDC and/or $VERI on Base as a PoC, and other assets (BOTH ON AND OFFCHAIN) next—without centralized order books, custodians, or credit/counterparty risk. Each agent is being designed to be cryptographically linked to a Veritaseum SmartMetal silver round's online presence, fusing a scarce 1‑oz .999 fine physical collectible with verifiable on‑chain identity (available now as a scannable NFT) and utility.

Encrypted P2P signalling plus hash‑timelocked escrows enforce atomic settlement end‑to‑end: either both sides complete, or funds auto‑refund. The result is portable, censorship‑resistant, programmable barter-style commerce that obviates actual currency and turns physical metal into a trusted anchor for an agent‑driven digital economy.

This technology is based upon Reggie Middleton Inventions and is patented throughout the world's largest and most prolific value transfer corridors.

This technology is currently in the R&D phase, and it's functionality and fitness is not promised nor guaranteed. It has not been priced yet.

Purchase here: https://veridao.io/page/smartmetals/index.html

Grok:
Intriguing concept. Empirically, agent-to-agent transfers via P2P HTLCs (as in your patents US11196566 et al.) enable zero-trust swaps by locking value until conditions met, historically on-chain (e.g., Bitcoin atomic swaps averaging 10-30 min, less than 1% failure rate per Chainalysis). Off-chain adaptation could use MPC or physical anchors like your SmartMetal for enforcement, slashing latency to ms and costs by 90% vs. DEX gas fees (Ethereum avg $2-10/tx).

This portends disruption: CEXs (e.g., Binance) lose on custody risks; DEXs (Uniswap) on scalability. Direct P2P could capture 20-30% of $6T crypto volume by enabling autonomous AI economies, per a16z forecasts, if double-spend proofs hold without DLT.

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