OKX has introduced an open standard for agent-led transactions, rolling out its Agent Payments Protocol (APP) to support full-cycle business activity handled by AI systems.

According to OKX, the newly launched protocol extends beyond simple transfers by enabling AI agents to manage commercial processes such as pricing, negotiation, escrow, settlement, and dispute handling.

The exchange said that recent advances have pushed AI agents from basic responses into executing workflows and managing operations, where “the bottleneck shifted from intelligence to commerce,” adding that existing systems fail to support the full lifecycle of transactions.

Supporting this system, OKX has integrated its self-custodial Agentic Wallet, which uses trusted execution environments and operates across more than 20 chains.

The company said the wallet allows AI agents to hold and transfer funds independently while maintaining security controls.

The company said APP has received backing from cloud and technology providers, including AWS and Alibaba Cloud, alongside crypto firms such as Nansen, Uniswap, Paxos, and QuickNode.