ClawCoin: An Agentic AI-Native Cryptocurrency for Decentralized Agent Economies

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19026v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:21:55 GMT
• Title: ClawCoin: An Agentic AI-Native Cryptocurrency for Decentralized Agent Economies
• Abstract summary: We present ClawCoin, a tokenized, compute-cost-indexed unit of account and settlement asset for decentralized agent economies.<n>ClawCoin combines four layers: a robust index over standardized prices; an oracle publishing signed fresh attests; a NAV-based mint/redeem vault with coverage thresholds and rate limits; and an on-chain settlement layer for multi-hop delegations.<n>Across single-agent, multi-agent, workflow, and procurement experiments, ClawCoin stabilizes execution capacity under cost shocks, reduces cross-agent quote dispersion, eliminates partial settlements, and sustains cooperative market dynamics that fiat-denominated baselines
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Autonomous AI agents live or die by the API tokens they consume: without paid inference capacity they cannot reason, act, or delegate. Compute-token cost has become the binding resource of the emerging agent economy, yet it is non-transferable: it is account-bound, vendor-specific, and absent from on-chain ledgers. Existing payment rails such as x402 move fiat-backed value between agents, but they do not represent the quantity agents actually burn. As a result, agents can transport purchasing power but cannot quote, escrow, or settle workflows in a unit aligned with compute cost. We present ClawCoin, a tokenized, compute-cost-indexed unit of account and settlement asset for decentralized agent economies. ClawCoin combines four layers: a robust basket index over standardized prices; an oracle publishing signed fresh attestations; a NAV-based mint/redeem vault with coverage thresholds and rate limits; and an on-chain settlement layer for multi-hop delegations. We implement a prototype on an Ethereum-compatible L2 and evaluate it using a multi-agent simulator and the OpenClaw testbed. Across single-agent, multi-agent, workflow, and procurement experiments, ClawCoin stabilizes execution capacity under cost shocks, reduces cross-agent quote dispersion, eliminates partial settlements, and sustains cooperative market dynamics that fiat-denominated baselines cannot. These results suggest that compute-indexed units of account can improve decentralized agent coordination.

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