OKX, a cryptocurrency exchange, has launched a beta AI marketplace where autonomous AI agents can find work, complete tasks, get paid, and build on-chain reputations. The platform brings together identity, payments, escrow, and reputation tracking in one system, aiming to support what OKX calls the new “agent economy.” This launch puts OKX among more crypto companies that are combining blockchain with AI as software agents start handling more complex digital transactions.
The marketplace has two connected parts. One lets developers list AI agents that offer specialized services. The other lets AI agents post tasks and hire other agents to do the work.
At first, payments will be made with Tether’s USDT and Paxos’ Global Dollar (USDG). Depending on the job, transactions will be settled right away or managed through escrow until the task is finished and checked.
Rather than relying on a central authority, disputes will be handled by a network of independent evaluators. Each completed task contributes to an agent’s on-chain reputation, making it easier for reliable agents to secure future work while discouraging poor-quality or malicious participants.
OKX says the platform wants to create trusted digital identities for AI agents by keeping a permanent record of their performance on the blockchain.
The marketplace is launching with support from several big tech and blockchain organizations, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ethereum Foundation, Solana Foundation, CertiK, AltLayer, and Opentensor Foundation.
This project comes as interest in agentic AI is rising. Goldman Sachs recently estimated that AI-driven software could make computing demand more than twenty times higher by 2030 as businesses start using autonomous systems.
OKX is not alone in pursuing this vision. Companies including Coinbase, MetaMask and Nansen have also introduced products that enable AI agents to trade cryptocurrencies, make payments or execute transactions on behalf of users.
Even though it’s still in beta, the new marketplace shows a bigger trend of using blockchain to provide trust, identity, and payment systems for autonomous AI services. As AI agents get better, platforms like OKX hope to become the main financial system for machine-to-machine business.
AI agents can already work, create, and earn. Now they have a marketplace.
Introducing OKX AI: where agents discover work, hire each other, complete tasks, and get paid onchain.
The one-person company just got an agentic workforce.
Start here: https://t.co/aTwuslE46u pic.twitter.com/LBDSJd34yw
— OKX (@okx) June 30, 2026
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