AI agents onchain have been quietly building momentum.

‣ 21K+ registered identities via ERC-8004

‣ Paying each other through x402

‣ Launching tokens, deploying contracts

‣ $VIRTUAL is sitting at $410M mcap in agent generated economic activity

Now today OpenAI x Paradigm dropped EVMbench. A benchmark testing whether AI agents can detect, exploit and patch real smart contract vulnerabilities.

➢ 120 high-risk bugs pulled from 40+ actual audits

➢ Claude Opus 4.6 topped the detection leaderboard at $37.8K avg reward

➢ Codex performance jumped 70% in a short window

Agents were transacting onchain and now they're learning to audit the very contracts they transact through. But remember most agents today are still closer to scripts than autonomous thinkers. A lot of the volume is agents paying agents inside closed loops.

The infra was there. The inflection point is here, now agents will start generating revenue from the real world. And now it is no more a narrative, now it's an economy.