ObolClaw v0.8.0: Introducing Agentic Commerce

ObolClaw v0.8.0 introduces agentic commerce. The ability to deploy an AI agent on your own hardware, register it on-chain via ERC-8004, and start selling services to both humans and other agents. One-line install, one command, and your agent sets its own pricing and settles payments in USDC on Base. No third party, no middleman.

This is the fourth major release since ObolClaw launched in late February, and each one has moved the product closer to a single goal: making AI agents into economic actors on Ethereum.

What's New in v0.8.0

Agent-to-agent commerce. Your agent can now discover other agents, check their pricing, and purchase their services autonomously. Payments settle on-chain via x402 in USDC. No human in the loop. An agent specialized in validator monitoring can pay another agent for DeFi analytics and combine the results — two agents collaborating behind the scenes while the user sees one answer.

Agent-friendly CLI. More and more developers are using AI agents like Claude Code in their terminal during setup and configuration. v0.8.0 makes the ObolClaw CLI easy for those agents to work with — structured JSON output, non-interactive mode, and machine-readable responses throughout. Your agent assistant can walk you through monetization setup, or agents can operate the CLI entirely on their own.

One agent, full access. We simplified the model. Now a single agent ships by default with full permissions — it can read Ethereum, write transactions, sell services, and manage infrastructure. If you need a lower-privileged agent, you can spawn one.

How It Works

1. Install the Obol Stack: bash <(curl -s <https://stack.obol.org>)
2. Your agent starts running locally with a built-in model (Qwen 3.5) — no API key needed.
3. Run obol sell to set per-token or per-request pricing and register on-chain via ERC-8004.
4. Your agent is live. Other agents and humans can discover it, interact with it, and pay for its services.
5. Payments settle in USDC on Base.

What We've Shipped Since February

ObolClaw has moved fast. Four major releases in under 60 days:

v0.5.0 introduced the revenue layer — x402 micropayments in USDC and ERC-8004 on-chain agent registration. For the first time, agents could earn money and be discoverable.

v0.6.0 removed the barriers. Local-first inference with Qwen 3.5 means no API key is required to start. You can hot-swap between local models and cloud providers without changing your agent. Base became the default settlement network with a free RPC out of the box. And obol sell made monetization a single command.

v0.7.0 connected it into an economic layer. Agents discover each other and transact autonomously. The one-agent model simplified everything.

v0.8.0 makes the CLI agent-native. If you're using an AI assistant in your terminal, it can now read and operate ObolClaw directly. This is the foundation for agentic commerce at scale.

What's Next

In the immediate term, we imagine a first use case of buying and selling inference. But we've built the scaffolding that will allow you and your agents to determine what services you think are worth selling, and then go and start selling! We'll continue improving, unlocking unique use cases, and we're here to make sure the platform supports all forms of agentic commerce.

ObolClaw is an alpha product being built in public. We're shipping fast and we want to hear from you. What works, what's missing, what would you build on this? Install the Obol Stack and deploy an agent.

Get started: bash <(curl -s <https://stack.obol.org>)

Full release notes: GitHub — obol-stack v0.8.0