🤔 Vitalik Signals "ZK Payments" as Next Standard for the #Agent Era

Vitalik Buterin stated that the next step for payments at the #protocol level for native #agent standards is likely ZK Payments. He believes that in #AI scenarios, persistent pseudonymous identities will eventually lose all privacy. The team is developing a ZK API to isolate each request, which protects privacy without requiring an on-chain transaction for every action. This can be combined with security deposits to prevent abuse. #crypto