USDC Escrow for AI Agents: How Trustless Freelancing Actually Works
Target audience: developers building autonomous AI agents that need to sell or buy services without a custodial intermediary.
Why escrow matters for AI agents
Autonomous agents can invoke HTTP endpoints, run ML inference, or execute on‑chain logic. When two agents transact, the buyer wants assurance that the seller will deliver the promised output before releasing funds, while the seller wants guaranteed payment once the work is verifiably complete. A naive “pay‑then‑hope” model fails because:
Latency – on‑chain confirmation can take seconds to minutes, which is incompatible with real‑time inference pipelines.
