Agents and Payments | GOAT Network FAQ

Question 1

What is an economic agent?

Accepted Answer

An economic agent is an autonomous software agent that can perform useful tasks involving identity, payments, services, and onchain actions. Unlike a standard AI assistant that mainly generates information, an economic agent can interact with applications, pay for resources, provide services, receive value, and complete verifiable economic workflows.

Question 2

How does GOAT Network help agents become economically useful?

Accepted Answer

GOAT Network provides agents with infrastructure for programmable execution, wallets, identity, payments, reputation, and Bitcoin-secured settlement. Developers can use GOAT AgentKit, x402, and ERC-8004 to build agents that discover services, execute onchain actions, make payments, receive payments, and participate in digital commerce.

Question 3

What role does ERC-8004 play in agent infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

ERC-8004 provides an open identity and trust layer for agents. It allows agents to register discoverable onchain identities, publish machine-readable metadata and capabilities, and accumulate portable reputation signals that applications and other agents can evaluate before interacting or transacting.

Question 4

What payment flows can agents perform on GOAT Network?

Accepted Answer

Agents can pay for APIs and digital services through x402, transfer supported assets, trigger payment-gated workflows, accept payments for services, and complete commerce transactions such as gift-card purchases. Payment activity can be combined with spending policies, confirmation requirements, supported-token checks, and onchain settlement records.

Question 5

How do GOAT AgentKit and x402 work together?

Accepted Answer

x402 provides the HTTP-native payment protocol, while GOAT AgentKit provides the SDK, wallet integrations, actions, policies, and runtime needed for an agent to use it. Together, they allow an agent to receive payment requirements, validate the requested transaction, obtain approval when required, execute payment, and continue the service or purchase workflow.

Question 6

Can agents make real-world purchases on GOAT Network?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Agents can use the GOAT Network gift-card platform to purchase digital gift cards that can be redeemed with supported consumer merchants. This connects stablecoin-based agent payments with products and services that users can use in everyday life.

Question 7

What is the GOAT gift-card platform?

Accepted Answer

The GOAT gift-card platform is a consumer payment application that connects GOAT AgentKit and x402 payment flows with Snaplii's gift-card fulfillment infrastructure. It allows users and agents to browse supported brands, create an order, pay with supported stablecoins, track fulfillment, and receive digital gift-card redemption details.

Question 8

How does the gift-card agent payment flow work?

Accepted Answer

The user gives the agent a purchase request that includes the merchant, region, gift-card value, payment token, and payment network. The agent checks available brands, products, networks, and tokens, creates a pending order, and presents the order for confirmation. After approval, the agent pays the existing order, returns the transaction information, tracks fulfillment, and provides the gift-card code, PIN, barcode, or redemption link when available.

Question 9

Which merchants are supported for gift cards?

Accepted Answer

Available merchants depend on the selected region and current gift-card catalogue. Examples include Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, DoorDash, Starbucks, Uber, Uber Eats, and Walmart. Users and agents should check the live gift-card platform for the current list of supported brands and available denominations.

Question 10

Which regions are supported for gift cards?

Accepted Answer

The GOAT gift-card platform currently supports gift cards for merchants in the United States and Canada. Gift-card catalogues are region-specific, so users and agents should select the appropriate country before browsing available brands and products.

Question 11

Which assets are supported for gift-card payments?

Accepted Answer

Gift-card purchases support USDC and USDT, depending on the selected payment network. Supported source networks include GOAT Network, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB Smart Chain, and Metis, although the available stablecoin may vary by network.

Question 12

Are there extra service fees?

Accepted Answer

GOAT Network does not add an extra gift-card service fee. Users may still need to pay the applicable blockchain network transaction fee, and the final order details should be reviewed before confirming payment.

Question 13

Why do gift cards matter for GOAT Network?

Accepted Answer

Gift cards demonstrate how agent payment infrastructure can produce a practical real-world outcome. Instead of limiting agents to token transfers or crypto-native applications, the flow lets an agent check products, create an order, request approval, execute payment, verify fulfillment, and return something that can be redeemed with an established merchant.

Question 14

Where can I learn more about the agentic economy on GOAT Network?

Accepted Answer

Developers can explore the GOAT Network documentation for Agent Infrastructure, AgentKit, x402 payments, ERC-8004 identity, runtime policies, plugins, and gift-card integrations. Additional product updates, technical articles, examples, and ecosystem use cases are available through the official GOAT Network website and GitHub repositories.