GOAT Network Blueprint

Not all agents are the same. This article defines Bitcoin-secured Agents: a new category of AI agent built to operate independently with payments, identity, reputation, programmable execution, and settlement anchored to Bitcoin.

GNS is now live on GOAT Mainnet, giving users, builders, projects, and agents readable .goat names for addresses and records across the GOAT Network ecosystem. Learn how GNS improves usability by replacing complex wallet addresses with recognizable names, while complementing GOAT’s broader stack for payments, identity, agents, and onchain applications.

Q1 was the quarter GOAT Network defined what it's building toward - Bitcoin-secured Infrastructure for the Digital Economy - and shipped the foundational AI stack to make it real: x402 as the native payment rail, ERC-8004 as native agent identity, and AgentKit as the developer entry point. This recap covers what shipped, who's building on it, and how it sets up Q2: putting the stack into practice through the GOAT AI Builder Grants Program.