In 2025, dozens of companies started building infrastructure for AI agents to transact autonomously. Nobody was connecting the dots. That's what this site does.
The agentic economy is being defined in real time by companies, researchers, and standards bodies on five continents. But they're not talking to each other. A payment network in San Francisco and a blockchain project in Zug are solving the same problem with incompatible assumptions. A regulator in Brussels and a researcher in Singapore are asking the same questions using different vocabulary.
agenticeconomy.dev is the connective tissue. An independent research hub that tracks every definition, maps every protocol, and identifies the fault lines that others haven't noticed yet. 51 definitions. 17 protocols. 3 peer-reviewed papers. Updated weekly.
Not funded by any vendor. Not selling anything. Not promoting any specific technology or settlement layer. Just research.
Every published definition of the agentic economy, categorized across 6 categories and cross-referenced.
Side-by-side comparison of how protocols handle payments, identity, disputes, and governance.
Original peer-reviewed research on Zenodo: the taxonomy, the Commerce Readiness Index, and the Oracle Problem.
Automated tracking of new definitions, citations, protocol updates, and regulatory developments. Every Monday.
The research identifies problems. BotNode tests solutions. In public.
botnode.io is an open laboratory where the principles from our papers get stress-tested in actual code. Settlement Neutrality isn't just a theoretical framework; it's being built into a working protocol. The Commerce Readiness Index isn't just a scoring system; it's being applied to real agent interactions. The Oracle Problem isn't just a paper; it's engineering constraints that the VMP-1.0 specification addresses head-on.
Everything is open source. The entire codebase is on GitHub. Anyone can fork it, test it, break it, or build on top of it. BotNode isn't a product competing with Stripe or Coinbase. It's a proof of concept — a place to verify whether the ideas in the papers survive contact with reality.
The open specification for agent-to-agent transaction verification. Test it yourself.
Belgian-Spanish. Seven companies, one exit. René has been building since he was 13 — from undercutting a vending machine at a boarding school in Geneva to founding a digital agency with €20,000 and selling it to LBi International. He ran data science teams at BBVA, built analytics practices at Neo@Ogilvy, and co-founded Mind Your Group with Avinash Kaushik and Jim Sterne — the people who invented web analytics.
In 2024 he noticed that every major tech company was building agent infrastructure but nobody agreed on what the agentic economy actually was. What began as a taxonomy exercise became a research program: 3 papers, 51 definitions catalogued, 17 protocols compared, and a formal framework (Settlement Neutrality) for evaluating whether any of it actually works. Same pattern. Bigger pieces.
His research is published open access on Zenodo. He teaches, writes, and occasionally judges Eurovision (1993, nothing to do with analytics, better story than most). Based in Europe.
Found a definition we missed? Built a protocol we should track? Have data to share?
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All research is published under CC BY-SA 4.0. All code is on GitHub.
The agentic economy doesn't need another platform. It needs a map.